Opvs mathematicvm octo libros complectens
Subtitle: innvmeris propemodvm figvris idealibvs manvvm et physiognomiae, aliisqve adornatvm, qvorvm sex priores libri absolutissimae cheiromantiae theoricam, praxim, doctrinam, artem, & experientiam verissimam continent : septimus physiognomiae dispositionem, hominumque omnium qualitates & complexiones : octauus periaxiomata de faciebus signorum, & quid sol in vnaquaque domo existens, natis polliceatur : remedia quoq; omnium aegritudinum complectitur : et naturalem astrologiam atq; effectus lunae quoad diuersas aegritudines : item isagogen astrologiae iudiciariae, & totius diuinatricis artis encomia ...
By: authore d. Ioanne Taisnierio ... ; cum indice copioso
Publisher: Apud Ioannem Birckmannum & Wernerum Richwinum
Published: 1562
Place of publication: Coloniae Agrippinae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Palmistry; Physiognomy; Early works to 1800; Astrology
Other titles: Opus mathematicum octo libros complectens
Notes: Book 8 contains excerpts from Joannes ab Indagine, Hermes Trismegistus, Luca Gaurico, Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra.

Woodcut printer's device on t.p. (Sacrifice of Isaac). Port. of author on t.p. verso with date 1562, repeated on kk3v. Numerous labeled diagrams of hands in first 6 books, as well as allegorical representations of the planets. Book 7 has cuts of facial types, book 8 of horoscopes (with 2 re-occurrences of the cuts of the planets).

Signatures: *⁶ A-Zz⁴, ²AA-ZZ⁴, ³aa-kk⁴.

Binding: vellum, rebacked in leather. Old spine label with author and title in gilt ("TAISNIERO / CHEIROM").

Bibliographic notes on front free endpaper recto.