Alchemie und Okkulta. - Sanders, R., Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately handled; with their natural-predictive-significations. The subject of dreams; divinative, steganographical, and Lullian sciences. Whereunto is added the art of memorie. 3 Tle. in 1 Bd. Mit 2 Holzschnitt-Titelvignetten, 1 gest. Porträt und 106 Textholzschnitten (2 ganzseit.) sowie zahlr. Holzschnitt-Initialen und -Vignetten. London, R. White für N. Brook 1653. HPgt. unter Verwendung zeitgenöss. Ldr.-Deckel. Folio. 12 Bll., 277 (st. 279), 39 S., 2 Bll. (st. 3?).

Sabattini 490. - Thorndike VIII, 462f. - Wing S 754. - Lowndes III, 2192 Anm. - Nicht bei Ackermann, Rosenthal, Dorbon-Ainé und Caillet. - Erste Ausgabe. Seltenes Werk zur Physiognomie und Chiromantie. - "In a preface to the reader of thirteen unnumbered pages Sanders sets forth the doctrine of signatures in plants and repeats with some modification and without acknowledgement the distinction of five degrees or kinds of sympathy and antipathy .. Sanders then treats of chiromancy in 23 chapters followed by 48 figures of hands .. A second book devotes 256 pages to physiognomy, metoposcopy and oneiromancy .. Following this second book comes A Treatise of the Moles .. and another tract on artificial memory or the art of Raymond Lull" (Thorndike). - Tl. II mit separatem Titel (fortlaufend paginiert). dritte Teil A treatise of the moles separat paginiert. - Ohne S. 261/262 und vermutl. 1 Widmungsbl. zu Beginn sowie 1 Bl. Errata am Ende. - Tlw. stark gebräunt, vereinz. gering angeschmutzt sowie mit kl. Randläsuren (1 Bl. mit kl. Fehlstelle und dadurch bed. Buchstabenverlust), zu Beginn mit einigen Nadelspuren, erste 2 Bll. gelöst. Einbd. beschädigt.

First edition of this scarce book about physiognomy and chiromancy. With 2 woodcut title vignettes, 1 engr. portrait, 106 woodcuts in text (2 full-page) and numerous woodcut initials\b\i and vignettes. HPgt. unter Verwendung zeitgenöss. Ldr.-Deckel. Half calf using contemp. calf boards. - Lacking page 261/62 and probably 1 dedication leaf at beginning and 1 leaf errata. Stronger browned, here and there soiled and with small marginal defects (1 leaf with defective spot and loss of letters), some pinholes at beginning, first 2 leaves detached. Binding damaged.