CHIROMANCY - PRAETORIUS, JOH. (AND) SCHALITZ, CHRISTIAN.

Collegium Curiosum privatissimum Physiognom - Chiromant - Metoposcop - Anthropologicum, Oder Ein sehr nützlicher Werck, Darinnen curieus und doch vollkömmlich abgehandelt wird was zur Physiognomie, Chiromantie, Metoposcopi und Anthropologie gehöret.

Franckfurt und Leipzig, P.W. Stock, 1713. - Witbound: Schalitz, Christian. Die Von Aberglauben, Vanitæten und Teuscherey gereinigte Chiromantia und Physiognomia. Leipzig, Wilh. Stocken, 1716. Small 8vo. Bound in cont. blue boards. - Praetorius: Title in red/black. (14),128 pp. and 9 folded woodcut-plates ( one plate defective loosing a third from lower left corner, repaired, one plate loose, some tears), woodcuts in the text. - Schalitz: Engraved portrait as frontispiece. 61 pp. and 5 large folded engraved plates. Some browning to leaves and light staining to plates. Plates showing traces of use.

Two scarce works on Chiromantcs in German. Praetorius' work (from 1661 in latin) was abandoned by the Catholic Church and put on Index

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