Body language - Early works to 1800

Chirologia: or, The natvral language of the hand : Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, The art of manvall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence: by historicall manifesto's, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation. With types, or chirograms: a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument. / by J.B. Gent. Philochirosophus.