Keiromantia , or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically : wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures : together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniuersall spirit thereof ... / written originally in Latine by Io: Wharton ... and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothmann, Johann.

Contributor:

Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Chiromancia. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Palmistry--Early works to 1800.

Palmistry.

Astrology--Early works to 1800.

Astrology.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 167, that is, 183 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, frontispiece ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Keiromantia, or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically

Cheiromantia, or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically

Art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically

A Learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the universall spirit thereof.

Fingerprint:

out. heor e,re tini (3) 1652 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooke ..., 1652.

Notes:

Title within border of type ornaments.

Various woodcut illustrations and diagrams depicting palms throughout text.

Dedicated by Wharton to Elias Ashmole.

Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴ (A1 blank).

Page 177 misnumbered as 161, which numeration continues to the end.

First word of the title printed in Greek.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy imperfect: leaf F8 defective.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) R2001

OCLC:

54151129