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ARTEMIDORE. Les Jugemens astronomiques des songes [...] Augm…
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218
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ARTEMIDORE. Les Jugemens astronomiques des songes [...] Augm…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
ARTEMIDORE. Les Jugemens astronomiques des songes [...] Augmenté par Auguste Niphe sur les Augures, et un traicté fait sur les Divinations par Anthoine du Moulin. Printed in Rouen and sold in Paris, Jean d'Houry, 1664.
In-12 of [11] ff. 305 pp. Tan calf, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, red edges (contemporary binding). Brown stains to title. Long old handwritten notice on flyleaves (hole with lack).
"ARTEMIDORE. Greek scholar, contemporary of Adrian or Marcus Aurelius. The best edition of his 'Interpretation of the Songs' is that of Reiff, Leipzig, 1805. The only French translations are by Dumoulin, Troyes, 1634, and Rouen, 1664. Caillet p. 66 and no. 468.
"Antoine du Moulin's translation of Niphus had first appeared separately in Lyon with Jean de Tournes around 1550" Brunet I, 518.
Artemidorus of Daldis, or Artemidorus of Ephesus, was a Greek writer and philosopher of the first century, famous for his 'Onirocriticism', a major work on the interpretation of dreams that influenced even Sigmund Freud. As a traveller and observer of the Greek world, he developed a systematic and quasi-scientific method for analysing dreams, which were considered to carry meaning and were sometimes predictive.
A rare item.
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