Lot 283: SAUNDERS, RICHARD.

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Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie... with the Subject of Dreams made plain. London: Nathaniel Brook, 1671-1670

second edition, 3 parts in one volume, 4to (296 x 195mm.), one engraved plate, woodcut vignettes on first title, woodcut illustrations, single leaf ("Peroratio") bound in at end of part 3, old half sheep, lacking frontispiece portrait and final blank leaf, marginal repair to N1, some light soiling, upper hinge broken, worn

Wing S755

A manuscript astrological calculation for 1623 is drawn in the lower margin of p.173, and at the end are five manuscript leaves of "A short definition of Geomancy extracted from Corneilus Aggripa's Occult Philosophy".