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PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. De humana physiognomonia . . . libri IV. 2 full-page woodcut portraits of the author; numerous text woodcuts. [16], 534, [57] pages. 8vo,184x114 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine damaged in a few places; contents severely browned, paper somewhat brittle, split between front free endpaper and title. sold as is. Oberursel: Cornelius Sutor for Jonas Rosa in Frankfurt am Main, 1601
Porta's 1586 De humana physiognomia "clearly established the doctrine of the correspondence between the external form of the body and the internal form of the person"--DSB XI, 97. Garrison-Morton 150; Heirs of Hippocrates 370; Norman 1723 (all citing the original edition).
