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ANTIQUE GERMAN OCCULT HANDBOOK CHIROMANTIA METOPOSCOPY PUNCTURING ONOMANCY, 1770
Estimate: $2,200 - $2,500
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Year/Century: 18th century
Language: German
Subject: Science & Medicine
Binding: Hardcover
Description: Newly opened exhibition space for philosophical sciences, whereby appropriate guidance pertaining to the fields of chirometry, metapoescopy, puncturing, onomantia, nativity, and dechriffrirography is provided. This guidance addresses the observed effects of magnetism and wishes fulfillment. Montag, Regensburg ; 1770 A scarce first edition of the complete occult handbook ( "secret philosophical sciences, in which instruction pertaining both to chiromantia, metoposcopy ... the art of puncturing, onomancy, the art of nativity,... and the art of deciphering... the hidden effects of the magnet and the dowsing rod are given" ). A few of the 27 copper plates folded. figures in the text and tables. Excellent condition; slight binding wear. One of the plates is absent but still there. 400 pages of text in German.
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