PORTA GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA De humana physiognomonia libri

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PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. De humana physiognomonia libri IIII. 2 full-page woodcut portraits of Porta; 2 pairs of full-length male and female figures; comparative physiognomic text illustrations throughout. [16], 534, [57] pages. 8vo, contemporary German vellum with oxidized silver- and gilt-stamped arms on covers; contents evenly browned. Hanau: Guilelmus Antonius for Petrus Fischer, 1593

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Second edition of Porta's 1586 treatise on human physiognomy, "in which he 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).