ARTEMIDORE. Les Jugemens astronomiques des songes [...] Augm - Lot 218

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, decorated spine, gilt title, red edges (period binding). Brown stains on title. Long old handwritten notice on flyleaf (hole with lack). "ARTEMIDORE. Greek scholar, contemporary of Adrian or Marcus Aurelius. The best edition of his 'Interprétation des Songes', is that of Reiff, Leipzig, 1805. The only French translations are Dumoulin's 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-language writer and philosopher of the 1st century, famous for his "Onirocriticism", a major work on dream interpretation that influenced even Sigmund Freud. As a traveler and observer of the Greek world, he developed a systematic, quasi-scientific method for analyzing dreams, which he considered to carry meaning and sometimes be predictive. Rare.