Divination.- Cardano (Girolamo) Metoposcopia Libris Tredecim..., first edition, illustrated throughout with woodcut facial diagrams, a few full-page, preliminaries *1&2 bound at end, early ink manuscript note to front free endpaper, Sig. C-F with small paper repairs to fore-margin, very occasional small scattered ink marks, foxing to preliminaries and scattered throughout, browning, to varying degrees but generally light, rear pastedown starting from vellum, contemporary vellum, titled in contemporary ink manuscript to spine and lower-edge, some light staining, folio, Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1658.

⁂ Girolamo Cardano's (1501-76) seminal work on metoposcopy, a form of divination in which one's personality and destiny is predicted through reading the lines or wrinkles on the forehead, written in 1558 but published posthumously. Metoposcopy was an ancient practice popularised during the Renaissance by Cardano, who claimed to identify seven horizontal planes on the forehead that corresponded with astrological alignments.