Traité des songes et des visions nocturnes [drophead title]. by…

12mo (140 × 84 mm), pp. 12. Stitched in contemporary pale blue wrappers. Very slightly soiled and creased but a good copy.

A popular pocket dream dictionary abridged from Vulson de la Colombière’s influential Le Palais des curieux first published in 1660 and widely disseminated in popular form. The foot of the final page includes a series of numbers offered as the most likely to be drawn in the national lottery. René Helot, La Bibliothèque bleue en Normandie (1928), p. 245.