TAISNIER, JEAN. Opus mathematicum octo libros complectens, innumeris propemodum figuris idealibus manuum et physiognomiae... Köln, Johann Birckmann und Werner Richwin, 1562.

Folio (315 x 205 mm.). 6 ll., 624 pp., 5 (2 blank) ll. Title with printer's device in woodcut, 2 woodcut portraits of the author (one copied), many woodcut illustrations.
Contemporary blindtooled vellum, worn and with damages, stained, split joints, spine in compartments with manuscript title, darkend. Another work has been removed from the binding. Inside of upper board with former owner Balthazar Georgius Unger's (from Prague) own notes, verses and also his music annotations dated 1627. Title with small loss of upper corner, hole and tear in inner margin.

First edition. VD 16, T 72. Graesse, Bibl. magica, 100.
Richly illustrated chiromantic work by the Jean Taisnier (1508-1562), mathematician, lawyer, philosopher and musician. Also on physiognomy and on astrology.