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Medical Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD
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Title: Saunders Physiognomie and Chiromancie, Metroscopie, the Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, Fully and Accurately Explained; With Their Natural Predictive Significations Both to Men and Women.
Author: Saunders, Richard Description: [xxviii], 160, [2], 155-6, 161-377, [1] blank, [5], +[7] ad pp. Engraved frontispiece, woodcuts in text. (4to) 11½x7½, period calf with modern rebacking and recornering, endpapers replaced. Second Edition.Richard Saunders (1613-1687?), a native of Warwickshire, studied hermeneutics about 1647 and practised astrology and chiromancy during the golden age of the pseudo-sciences in England. Heading: Place Published: London Publisher: Nathaniel Brook Date Published: 1671 Condition reportBoards worn; title page repaired in gutter, leaf Pp4 supplied in facsimile on period paper, some dampstaining; good.
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