Name: Auction: Indagine, Johannes de Chiromantia
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 2268 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 773&nbsp;February 2024's auction features a fine range of modern literature (lots 275-298) including first editions of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/297" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings</a>' and <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/279" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm</a>', important manuscripts (lots 179-195), atlases &amp; maps (lots 112-151), photographs (lots 196-208) and The Collection of the Stevenson Lighthouse Engineers (lots 61-111), including <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/85" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI'</a>, and much more. The sale also features The Library of Dr Andrew Fraser MD FSA Scot (1937 - 2020) (lots 152 - 178).

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Ian Fleming | British 1908 - 1964

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1 Physiognomia, ex aspectu membrorum hominis. 2 Periaxiomata de faciebus signorum. 3 Canones astrologici, de judiciis aegritudinum. 4 Astrologia naturalis. 5 Complexionum noticia, juxta doninium planetarum. Strassburg: Johannes Schott, 1541. Folio (29 x 19.5cm), 130 [2] pp., a-l6, old vellum, large woodcut portrait of the author to title-page, woodcut illustrations of palms and facial types throughout the text, printer's woodcut devices to recto and verso of colophon leaf, annotated slips and engraved armorial bookplate mounted to front pastedown, faint early marginalia to pp. 65-6 [VD16 R 3111; this edition not in Adams]

Indagine, Johannes de

Chiromantia

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