La physionomie humaine de Jean Baptiste Porta...diviséee en quatre livres...premiere edition
A 1655 French edition of Giambattista della Porta's treatise on physiognomy, printed in Rouen by Jean and David Berthelin and aimed at readers of medical and learned literature. The woodcuts pair human heads with animal heads and show the features Porta linked to character, offering a designer dense hatching, sharp profiles and comparative face-and-animal pairings to study.
