DE SOMNIORUM INTERPRETATIONE, Libri Quinque, a Iano Cornario medico physico Francofordensi, latina lingua conscripti.

Published by Basileae per Hieronymi Frobenium & Nicolaum Episcopium mense Ianuario Anno, 1544

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SECOND LATIN EDITION 1544, printers' names taken from colophon, small 8vo, approximately 165 x 110 mm, 6½ x 4½ inches, printer's pictorial device on title page, repeated larger on final page, pages: [3], 4-479, [1], rebound in full modern panelled calf, gilt lettered maroon label, gilt decoration to spine, blind decoration to covers, new endpapers, edges speckled red. Pale staining to title page with untidy ink inscription in Latin, pale staining to text of pages 15-18, pale staining to outer upper corners and outer margins through most of the book, no staining to pages 372 to end apart from slightly affecting the edges of a few outer margins, unsightly heavier staining affecting pages 225-241 and 257-272 leaving tide marks, all text legible, brief early ink note to 11 margins, a few pale underlinings. A good tight copy, no loose pages. This famous early work on the interpretation of dreams was written in the second century by the Greek Artemidorus Daldianus entitled Oneirokritika. It was first published in Venice by the Aldine Press in 1518. The first translation into Latin which was by the German humanist and physician Janus Cornarius, friend of Erasmus, appeared in Basel in 1539 from the printers of our book. See: Durling, 16th Century Books in the National Library of Medicine, No.322; Caillet, Bibliographie des Sciences Occultes, Volume I, page 66-67; Wellcome Historical Medical Library, Volume I, page 26; Bibliotheca Osleriana, page 177; Adams, Books printed in Europe 1501-1600, Volume I, A2037. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

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Title
DE SOMNIORUM INTERPRETATIONE, Libri Quinque, a Iano Cornario medico physico Francofordensi, latina lingua conscripti.
Author
ARTEMIDORUS Daldianus. Philosophus Excellentissimus.
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Basileae per Hieronymi Frobenium & Nicolaum Episcopium mense Ianuario Anno
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1544
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