SANDERS, Richard (Student of Divine and Celestial/Sciences) Physiognomie and Chiromancie Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body...The Subject of Dreams; Divinative, Steganographical and Lullian Sciences. R White, London 1653. Woodcut diagrams and vignettes. pp 129-138 & 261/262 deficient unless mis-numbered. Some tears and stains. s.a.f. Rebound in 1/2 calf and brown cloth. 4to.

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PETER HAYDEN 21 April 1928 – 24 September 2019

Staffordshire based garden historian Peter Hayden was the author of Biddulph Grange: A Garden Rediscovered and a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Gardens, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Garden, Landscape Design and Country Life.  During National Service in the Intelligence Corps he trained as a Russian interpreter.  His research into Russian gardens culminated in Russian Parks and Gardens (2005).  In 2006 he was awarded a Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Arts, the first foreigner to receive the award since it was introduced by Catherine the Great in the Eighteenth Century.  His interests – including horticulture, topography, local history and cookery – are reflected in his extensive private library.