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ARTEMIDORUS. Troumbüchlin. German translation by Walther Hermann Ryff, with preface excerpted from writings on dreams by Philipp Melanchthon. [40], 223 pages; lacks the 12-leaf index. 4to, 197x156 mm, later paste-paper boards, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact; marginal foxing and dampstaining, occasional soiling, blank portion torn from bottom of title page. Strassburg: Samuel Emmel, 1555
Later edition of Ryff's 1540 German version of the Oneirocritica, the most important work on dream interpretation in Greco-Roman antiquity, dating from the 2nd century A.D. and first published in the original Greek in 1518. bound after: CARDANO, GIROLAMO. Traumbuch. German translation by Johann Jacob Huggelin. [70] (of [96]), 785, [3] pages, including final leaf with printer's device on verso; lacks the title and following 12 preliminaries. Marginal soiling and dampstaining. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1563. first edition in german of Cardano's 1562 treatise on dreams, Somniorum synesiorum libri IIII.
