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A man on horseback consulting a fortune-teller or gipsy. Engraving.

A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.

Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.

A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.

Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.

A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.

Br̥hatsāmudrikaśāstra / strīpuruṣalakṣaṇa,Paṇḍitanārāyaṇaprasādamiśrakr̥tabhāṣāṭīkāsahita.

A woman with her attendant visiting a fortune-teller. Etching.

A countrywoman is telling the fortune of a young artist at the entrance to a chapel; two other artists walk past on the right; five paintings on the wall. Drawing by B. Pinelli, 1811.

The book of knowledge; treating of the wisdom of the ancients. In four parts. I Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... II. Prognostications for ever, necessary to keep the body in health ... III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's kalendar ... / Written by Errapater ... Made English by W. Lilley ... To which is added, The dealer's directory; containing, 1. The true form of all sorts of bills, bonds ... 2. The best method of getting in debts ... 3. An account of weights, measures, numbers, coins.

MS.1422

The Dutch fortune-teller : discovering XXXVI several questions which old and young, married-men and women, batchelors and maids, delight to be resolved of / brought into England by John Booker.

Pūcārikaḷ kuṟicollukiṟa cāstiraṅkaḷ Maturai I. Rāma. Kurucāmikkōṉār avarkaḷāl tiraṭṭiya Putiya kōṭāṅkimālai : iraṇṭām pākam / Maturai putumaṇṭapam pustakaṣāp Kuru. Irāmacāmik Kōṉ avarkaḷāṟṟamatu ... patippikkap peṟṟatu.

Chiromancy, France, 17th century

Mirandolanus, Hugo

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MS.1422

The Dutch fortune-teller : discovering XXXVI several questions which old and young, married-men and women, batchelors and maids, delight to be resolved of / brought into England by John Booker.

Pūcārikaḷ kuṟicollukiṟa cāstiraṅkaḷ Maturai I. Rāma. Kurucāmikkōṉār avarkaḷāl tiraṭṭiya Putiya kōṭāṅkimālai : iraṇṭām pākam / Maturai putumaṇṭapam pustakaṣāp Kuru. Irāmacāmik Kōṉ avarkaḷāṟṟamatu ... patippikkap peṟṟatu.

Chiromancy, France, 17th century

Mirandolanus, Hugo