The Benham Book of Palmistry, Revised

The Essential Work

Ranked #22 in Palmistry

The book that for more than a century has been the standard reference for reading the hand, now in a completely reformatted edition.

Palmistry is one of the ancient arts, practiced in Egypt, India, Greece and Rome and prized as a sacred and peculiar gift. Its practitioners were highly respected philosophers, oracles and priests. Yet by the 17th century, it had become a lost art, kept alive almost solely in gypsy camps. And by the end of the 19th century, it was seen as little more than quackery, a small step up (or down) from fortune telling and alchemy.

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