Laws of Scientific Hand Reading A Practical Treatise on the Art Commonly Called Palmistry
by William G. Benham
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- Hardcover
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C6c. Very Good. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York and London, 1900 xxiii, 635 pgs. Illustrated. Ninth Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Palmistry is one of the ancient arts, practiced in Egypt, India, Greece and Rome and prized as a sacred and peculiar gift. Its practitioners were highly respected philosophers, oracles and priests. Yet by the 17th century, it had become a lost art, kept alive almost solely in gypsy camps. And by the end of the 19th century, it was seen as little more than quackery, a small step up (or down) from fortune telling and alchemy. When it was originally published (as The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading) , Benham's book immediately transformed the image of palm reading from a huckster's trick to a practice with a firm scientific basis. It quickly became an essential reference work for anyone serious about palm reading. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Laws of Scientific Hand Reading A Practical Treatise on the Art Commonly Called Palmistry
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- William G. Benham
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Ninth Printing
- Place of Publication
- C6c
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