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Palmistry

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  • 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.
  • A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.
  • The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. Collected into one entire volume / By John Gadbury.
  • A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Tattuvam toṉṉūṟṟāṟukkum ātāramākayuḷḷa caram vāci āṟāyntu colliya Nantinūl rēkai kuṟi cāstiram.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Leone Milanese

    | Date: 1654 | Reference: MS.3235
    • Books
    • Online

    The book of palmestry and physiognomy : Being brief introductions, both natural, pleasant, and delectable, unto the art of chiromancy, or manual divination, and physiognomy: with circumstances upon the faces of the signes. Also, canons or rules upon diseases, or sicknesses. Whereunto is also annexed, as well the artificial as naturall astrologie, with the nature of the planets. Written in Latine, by John Indagine priest, and translated into English by Fabian Withers.

    Indagine, Johannes ab, -1537 | Date: 1656
    • Ephemera

    Hands : amazing appendages : a free event for the incurably curious / Wellcome Collection.

    Wellcome Collection. | Date: 2010
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    • Online

    The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar : Collected into one entire volume. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.

    Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681 | Date: 1683
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