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Occulta - Chiromantie - Cocles della Rocca, Bartolommeo. La physionomie naturelle, et la chiromance ... par les traits & les signes du visage, & par les marques & les lineamens de la main. With approx. 150 mostly black-grounded woodcuts. Rouen, D. Berthelin, 1679. 114 nn. Sheet 15 x 8.5 cm. Mottled leather binding of the period with gilt spine (somewhat rubbed and bumped, upper capital frayed and with loss). Approximately the 3rd French edition, first published in Latin in 1505 and in French in 1546. - Graesse II, 207 - Graesse, Bibl. magica 100 - Caillet 2413 - The main part illustrated with beautiful woodcuts of the hand lines, the areas white, lines and background black, the latter florally patterned. - Evenly somewhat browned, leaf T4 with a small corner tear just to the set, a good copy.
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Occulta - Chiromantie - Cocles della Rocca, Bartolommeo. La physionomie naturelle, et la chiromance ... par les traits & les signes du visage, & par les marques & les lineamens de la main. With approx. 150 mostly black-grounded woodcuts. Rouen, D. Berthelin, 1679. 114 nn. Sheet 15 x 8.5 cm. Mottled leather binding of the period with gilt spine (somewhat rubbed and bumped, upper capital frayed and with loss). Approximately the 3rd French edition, first published in Latin in 1505 and in French in 1546. - Graesse II, 207 - Graesse, Bibl. magica 100 - Caillet 2413 - The main part illustrated with beautiful woodcuts of the hand lines, the areas white, lines and background black, the latter florally patterned. - Evenly somewhat browned, leaf T4 with a small corner tear just to the set, a good copy.
