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Della Porta, Giovanni Battista
De Humana physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, books IV, 1601
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Oberursel, Cornelio Sutor, 1601. In the 8th. Typographic mark on the title page, title in red and black, portrait of the author and numerous woodcuts in the text, very burnished, coeval binding in soft parchment, smooth spine with manuscript author and title, tears on the spine. Together in the Homer lot, "Ilias & amp; Odyssea, et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi", Amsterdam, 1656, only the Iliad.
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Third edition, preceded by those of 1586 and 1593. Norman Catalog 1723 (edition of 1586); not present in Wellcome. "Porta was one of the pioneers of the scientific outlook, not himself a discoverer but a popularizer ... We are prone to think today of physiognomy as antiscientific, but it was in fact a way of emphasizing the dependence of behavior on body, a sort of physiological psychology. " (Diamond 23.5). & Nbsp;
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