Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto’s, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation. With types, or chyrograms: a long-wish’d for illustration of this argument.

Authors

John Bulwer

Files

Publication Date

1644

Publisher

Thomas Harper

City

London

Keywords

Deaf, Manual communication, Finger spelling, Gesture

Comments

"Printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by R. Whitaker"

2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 17 cm.

Recommended Citation

Bulwer, John, "Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto’s, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation. With types, or chyrograms: a long-wish’d for illustration of this argument." (1644). Deaf Rare Books. 35.
https://ida.gallaudet.edu/deaf_rare_books/35