[Dream Interpretation] [Card Reading] [Lottery]. THE TRUE BO - Lot 60

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[Dream Interpretation] [Card Reading] [Lottery]. THE TRUE BO - Lot 60
[Dream Interpretation] [Card Reading] [Lottery]. THE TRUE BOOK OF DREAMS, with instructions on how to interpret them and play the lottery to win for sure, by precisely following the ninety numbers of the Figures that foretell good fortune; preceded by instructions on how to draw the cards yourself without making a mistake, just as the Egyptians and Bohemians have done to this day. Paris, from the Imprimerie d’Égypte, located in Paris across from the former Opera House, 11 Boulevard Martin, 1799. A late 19th-century in-16 booklet, half-basane leather, with a smooth spine bearing the title and date in gold lettering. 24 pp., (6) ff. of illustrations. Water stains on a few pages, foxing. A rare, popular little manual on divination, illustrated with 90 woodcut figures spread across 6 leaves. This publication belongs to a series of works on oneiromancy applied to the lottery that were published in the second half of the 18th century under various titles, notably *L'Oniroscopie, or the Application of Dreams to the Numbers of the Royal Lottery of France* and *L'Onirocritie, or the True Interpretation of Dreams*. Grand-Carteret, in *Les Almanachs français*, no. 487, notes the numerous reprints and adaptations of these small books, particularly during the Directory. This edition is not cited by Caillet or Dorbon.
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