Curiosités des sciences occultes / par P.L. Jacob, bibliophile [pseud.].

Paul Lacroix · 1885 · Paris : Garnier frères, 1885. · 12 pictures

Curiosités des sciences occultes, a Paris occult-curiosities compilation published by Garnier frères in 1885 and credited to Paul Lacroix under the pseudonym P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, written for a general reading public interested in the occult. The pictures are plain outline drawings of open hands, with the fingers, thumb and palm lines simplified into bold single strokes on a cream ground, some with a thumb bent or a finger marked with a bandage-like band. A designer could take from them a minimal line-drawing approach to hand gestures and simplified anatomy.

Occultism

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