Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
ARTEMIDORUS. Dell'Interpretatione de Sogni. [16], 293, [1] pages. 8vo, 165x102 mm, contemporary limp boards, worn; intermittent browning or toning, marginal dampstaining through much of volume. Bookplate of Brooklyn Public Library on front pastedown, their perforated stamp and accession number on title. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547

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Italian version by Pietro Lauro of a 2nd-century A.D. work on dreams, "the most important of the ancient treatises on the subject" (Sarton); the Greek original was first published by the Aldine press in 1518. Durling 324; Hoffmann I, 383; Sarton I, 295.