Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HÖPING, JOHANN ABRAHAM JACOB. Institutiones Chiromanticae; oder, Kurtze Unterweisung, wie man aus denen Linien, Bergen, und Nägeln derer Hände [etc.] . . . das Jahr, Monat, Wochen und Tage, in welchen einem Glück- oder Unglückiches bevorstehet, muthmaßlich iudiciren kan.Woodcut text illustrations. [2], 113, [5]; [9], 163, [4] pages. 8vo, 19th-century calf gilt, covers slightly warped, portions of spine missing, front joint cracked, cords intact; light marginal dampstaining throughout. Jena: widow of Samuel Krebs for Matthaeus Birckner, 1681

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Manual of palmistry first published in 1673. Krivatsy 5765; Thorndike VIII, 465.