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[Keiromantia sic]: or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man .... Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19 genitures. Together with a ... discourse of the soul of the world .... / Written originally in Latine ... and now faithfully Englished, by Geo. Wharton.

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