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Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. De humana physiognomonia

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    De humana physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, libri IV. Qui ab extimis, quae in hominum corporibus conspiciuntur signis, ita eorum naturas, mores & consilia (egregiis ad viuum expressis iconibus) demonstrant, vt intimos animi recessus penetrare videantur : omnibus omnium ordinum studiosis lectu vtiles, maximeque iucundi / Nunc ab innumeris mendis, quibus passim Neapolitana scatebat editio, emendati, primumque in Germania in lucem editi. Cum duplici rerum & verborum indice longe locupletissimo.

    Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. | Date: [1601]
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    The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy : to which is added, An inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta.

    Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801. | Date: 1832

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