Thomas Bartholin - Johann und Heinrich Meibom - Joachim Oelhaf und Ole Worm - Johann Abraham Jacob - Thomae Bartholini, Joan. Henrici Meibomi, Patris, Henrici Meibomi, Filii, De Usu Flagrorum In Re - 1616-1689

3 significant prints on physiognomy and chiromancy.
Complete works from 1616 - 1670 - 1689

Work - Part A
Authors
Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590-1655), Heinrich Meibom (1638-1700)

Title
Thomas Bartholin, Joan. Henricus Meibom, Father, Henricus Meibom, Son, On the Use of Fevers in Medical and Venereal Matters, and the Function of the Loins and Kidneys, additionally include dissertations on the same kidney function by Joachim Olhafius and Olaf Worm.

Drucker
Daniel Paulii, Frankfurt am Main and Copenhagen, 1670

Description
Popular treatise on the use of the whip and whipping in love and marriage by Johan Henricus Meibom (1590-1655), dedicated to Christian Cassius, Bishop of Lübeck. Meibom worked as a doctor in Basel until 1619. After a professorship in Helmstedt (1620 to 1629), he settled in Lübeck. In 1660, an edition was published in Frankfurt, enriched with various comments by Thomas Bartholinus and combined with the treatises of both Meibom authors.


Work - Part B
Authors
Joachim Oelhaf & Ole Worm

Title
Joachim Olhaff and Olaf Worm's Dissertations on the Use of the Kidneys

Drucker
Daniel Paulii, Frankfurt am Main and Copenhagen, 1670

Collation
Pages 1-112 Part A; Pages 113-144 Part B.
A total of 144 numbered pages. Complete. Layer formula: A-I8.

References
VD17 12:186946G; Hayn/Gotendorf II, 280 & 298; Gay/Lemonnyer I, 890 & III,1227 (Tractatus); Rose, Register of erotic books, 2905-13.

Detectable in six libraries (BSB Munich, ULB Jena; SUB Göttingen; HAB Wolfenbüttel; Anna Amalia Weimar; SLUB Dresden)



Work
Author
Johann Abraham Jacob Höping

Title
Palmistry harmonics. This is the correspondence between the lines in the hands, associated with palmistry, and the lines on the forehead, related to physiognomy.

Drucker
Samuel Krebs widow for Matthaeus Birckner, Jena, 1689.

Description
Fourth edition of the interpretations of hand lines and facial physiognomies, first published in 1673. The work was significant and found many readers (Thorndike VIII, 465).

Equipment
Over 100 paper cutouts depicting hands or heads, showing hand lines and physiognomic features.
Sheet: 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Text: 13 x 6.5 cm.

Collation
4 unnumbered pages; 163 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of register.
Complete. Layer formula: A-L8

References
VD17 23:244316L; Sabbatini 279 (1674 edition); Graesse, Magica, 107; Rosenthal, Magica, 964; Laehr, Thorndike VIII, 465.

Libraries: In four German libraries (FB Gotha; SUB Göttingen; HAB Wolfenbüttel; ULB Halle)



Work
Author
Christian Moldenhauer

Title
Four Physiognomic Exercises in Four Books, which briefly, distinctly, and methodically present and demonstrate: I. the general physiognomy of the body, II. palmistry or hand inspection, III. metoposcopy or forehead contemplation, IV. oneiromancy or sleep meditation, and also show how much faith should be placed in these divinations...

Drucker
Zacharias Schürer, Wittenberg, 1616.

Description
First edition. Moldenhauer was a doctor of medicine and was described by Cyriakus Herdesianus as 'Physicus Bernburgensis.' This is apparently his only work and is based on ancient Greek and Latin sources. Approximately 30 woodcut illustrations.

Collation
8 unnumbered pages; 398 pages; 9 unnumbered pages. Complete.
Lagenformel: )(8; A-Z8; AA-CC8.

References
VD17 39:114479R; Sabbatini 389; Rosenthal 993; Thorndike VIII, 448

Libraries: Detectable in six libraries (SB Nuremberg; UB Leipzig, HAB Wolfenbüttel; ULB Halle, FB Gotha, UB Göttingen)

cover
Attractive half-leather binding of the 20th century. Brown leather spine with gold embossed title on a red spine label. Cover bound with marbled paper. Four bands. Very good condition. The book block and binding are firm and stable.
Octavo format: 15.5 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm.

state
Good to very good condition. Clean prints, evenly lightly browned, the Chiromantia slightly more so. Also slightly trimmed at the bottom (up to the pagination). The title page and the last page of Physignomicae have a missing section at the lower edge. A repaired tear on page 359. Two of the fold-out plates have larger fold tears. The last page (index) is trimmed on the side. Otherwise, no tears, defects, or losses.

About the content of the works

Palmistry (chiromancy) attempts to infer a person's behavior and destinies from the shapes and lines of the hand and the physiognomy of the hands (chirology). This is based on the idea that, alongside the face, these are the most individually distinctive parts of the body.

Already in antiquity, palmistry was regarded as a respected secret science. In the 12th century, an English monk in the Eadwine Psalter wrote the first chapter on chiromancy. In the early 16th century, Robert Fludd and Agrippa von Nettesheim interpreted the hand as a mirror of the cosmos and developed the traditional form of chiromancy as the teaching of chirology. This doctrine is based on the insight that physiognomy, gestures, and facial expressions can reveal something about a person's soul (physiognomics).

Physiognomy has been regarded as a subfield of medicine since Hippocrates and Galen.

Provenance
On the back of the first title, there is a library stamp and a withdrawn stamp of the 'Bibliotheca Academia Borussicae Rhenensis' (University Library of Bonn) from the first half of the 19th century.

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