Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 262

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Saunders, Richard (1613-1675)
Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, the Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body.

London: Printed by H. Brugis, for Nathaniel Brook, 1671.

Second edition, folio, woodcuts to title page, two parts in one volume with divisional title page; illustrated with text woodcuts of facial features and palm reading diagrams, lacking text leaf Pp4 [page 287/288]; title and following few leaves stained; bound in later dark sheepskin applied amateurishly over an extant binding; ex libris Henry Perkins of Blackman Street, with his armorial engraved bookplate pasted inside the front board; 10 1/2 x 7 in.

Wing S-755; ESTC R10153.

From Dr. Michael Stone's Psychiatry Collection.