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La Metoposcopia overo Commensuratione delle linee della fronte ... Aggiuntovi una breve, e nuova Fisonomia, un Trattato dei Nei, & un’altro dell'Indole della persona, con molte curiosità

La Metoposcopia overo Commensuratione delle linee della fronte ... Aggiuntovi una breve, e nuova Fisonomia, un Trattato dei Nei, & un’altro dell'Indole della persona, con molte curiosità by SPONTONE, Ciro (ca. 1555-1612), attributed to

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Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.
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La Metoposcopia overo Commensuratione delle linee della fronte ... Aggiuntovi una breve, e nuova Fisonomia, un Trattato dei Nei, & un’altro dell'Indole della persona, con molte curiosità
Author
SPONTONE, Ciro (ca. 1555-1612), attributed to
Seller
Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Venice & Verona: Andrea Rossi, 1672. 12mo (142 x 75 mm). Collation: A-F12 G4 (G4 blank). 150 pages. Forty-six woodcuts, of which one full-page, woodcut title ornament and initials. Wormtrack in gutter of last few leaves, affecting few letters on pp. 144-145, else a fine, fresh copy, untrimmed, in its original carta rustica binding.*** Rare pocket edition of a popular early manual of physiognomy, with crude woodcuts of male heads, all looking slightly concerned, as their simplistically lined foreheads each bear the burden of a different character type. The work was first published in an elegant octavo edition in 1626. In the dedication of that edition, Giovanni Battista Spontoni, doctor from Peschieria, claimed to have found the work in his father’s papers. Ciro Spontone (or Spontoni) served as secretary to high-placed dignitaries and diplomats; he wrote serious literary works, and this posthumously published foray into pseudo-science contrasts oddly with the rest of his oeuvre. The Dizionario biografico degli Italiani does not include it among his works. The present economically printed “popular” edition, whose poor models suffered at the hands of the remarkably unskilled wood engraver, is augmented with a short treatise on other aspects of physiognomy (the nose, the eyebrows, teeth, lips, voice, etc.) for men and women, and chapters on beauty marks and on human proportion. ICCU ITICCUBVEE34899, a different issue(?) of this edition, with the same imprint and bibliographical fingerprint, but in which the last quire contains six leaves instead of four (3 Italian locations listed; OCLC adds Heidelberg); Caillet, Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes 3: 10327.
THE PAYING GUEST

THE PAYING GUEST by Gissing, George

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THE PAYING GUEST
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Gissing, George
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1895. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1895. 4 pp ads dated March 1896. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in red. First Edition of this novella, being a volume in "Cassell's Pocket Library," which was edited by Max Pemberton. With the 1894 demise of the three-decker format and the lengthy style it had mandated, Gissing (and many other authors) turned to very short pieces -- books such as THE PAYING GUEST and SLEEPING FIRES, and the short stories that would form HUMAN ODDS AND ENDS. According to Collie, THE PAYING GUEST "was the third of the single-volume novels that Gissing wrote on commission, was regarded as a potboiler from start to finish and was soon forgotten" -- it tells of a middle-class family taking in a "paying guest," a young woman of little education and of poor temperament, who is soon asked to leave but will not. This copy is in mustard cloth (copies were also issued in wrappers -- no priority); it has the four-page ad catalogue dated March 1896, which is not the earliest. Condition is very good-plus (volume slightly askew, minor cover soil). Coustillas A16.1.c; Collie A15a.

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