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18002712bCaen: Chalopin 1800. 12mo 137 x 84 mm. 12 pp. Drop-title. Stab-stitched in original blue printed wrappers. Modern folding moroco-backed chemise and slipcase. A late chapbook incarnation of Vulson de La Colombière's treatise on dream interpretation first published 1660 this pocket-sized alphabetical list of dreams and their meanings had a practical purpose being sold as an aid for the selection of lottery numbers but see below.The association of dreams and lottery numbers derived from the Italian smorfia tradition which linked and still does the lottery and its numbers to dreams and the occult. The word smorfia refers to keys associating dreams with winning numbers also sometimes called cabala and by extension to the ephemeral publications containing these keys. "A feature of the Italian lottery throughout its history is the intense interest in occult methods of predicting the winning numbers. Foremost is the smorfia - a slang word meaning a wry grimace but also having overtones associated with the dream god Morpheus son of Hypnos God of Sleep." Adrian Seville History Today Vol. 49 no. 3 March 1999. In this brief pamphlet the connection with the lottery is indicated by a list of the 27 "most commonly pulled" lottery numbers printed at the end. Oddly all end in either 3 7 or 9. The dream descriptions however provide no lottery numbers. These highly abbreviated one-or-two-line summaries are simply followed by a verbal description of their degree and type of luck or lack of it or their meaning. Thus "to dream of being a tree" portends illness "kissing a dead person" promises long life though just kissing anyone signifies trouble. Arranged by keyword the list covers an impressive range of dream subjects: seeing oneself swimming in the sea loss and harm having long teeth trouble from one's parents dreaming that one is a doctor good luck hearing bells ringing signifies honor with boredom! etc.The attribution to the Caen chapbook printer/publishers Pierre-Jean-Aimé and Théodore Chalopin was made by René Helot who found several copies of the pamphlet in the Chalopin archives. OCLC locates 2 copies at the BnF and the Newberry. Cf. Helot La Bibliothèque bleue en Normandie 1928 245. Chalopin unknown books
1703708281703. London 1703. 1st ed. rare. London 1703. 1st ed. rare. Legal Advice for Tradesmen Layman's Guide. The Tradesman's Lawyer and Countrey-Man's Friend: 1. Directing Them in Contracts Bargains and Agreements Whereby They May Learn to Buy and Contract Safely And Cautiously Avoid Being Over-Reached in Their Bargains &c. 2. Concerning Borrowing Lending and Restoring And of Goods Pledged and Pawned. 3. Setting Forth Several Other Adjudged Cases Relating to Tradesmen &c. 4. Cases Relating to Farmers And Concerning Stoppage of Ways Watercourses Lights Commons and Several Other Nusances. 5. Concerning Scandalous Words Purposely Spoken to Prejudice and Abuse Tradesmen &c. 6. Concerning Leases Mortgages Corn Waste Distresses &c. Also Many Other Matters Relating to Landlord and Tenant. 7. Concerning Discharging and Ending of Actions Suits and Controversies And Therein Largely Concerning Arbitrements Awards and Umpirage With All Their Circumstances. 8. Certain Statute Laws Concerning Labourers Tradesmen Artificers Apprentices Servants Petty Chapmen &c. Collected from the Antient and Modern Law Books And Confirmed by Several Authorities And Therefore May be Useful as Well to the Professors of the Law As to Tradesmen and Others. London: Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esqs. 1703. viii 424 pp. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands and early hand-lettered title to spine gilt tooling to board edges. Negligible light rubbing and a few minor nicks to boards corners lightly bumped rear hinge cracked. Light toning to text slightly heavier in places tiny worm track near upper corners of final four text leaves rear free endpaper and rear pastedown early owner annotation to pp. 10 and 34 and rear free endpaper. A notably well-preserved copy of a rare title. Book housed in recent cloth clamshell box quarter morocco over cloth gilt title and gilt-edged raised bands to spine. $5000. First edition. An early form of "consumer protection" this book was written to protect members of the middle ranks of English society from the "cunning" of "persons of a higher Rank" who always enjoyed the "Learning and Leisure to read the Law." Two later editions were published in 1709 and 1720 with the title Gentleman's Assistant Tradesman's Lawyer and Country-Man's Friend. The. unknown books
