LA VERA CABALA DEL LOTTO
by (LOTTERY AND DREAM INTERPRETATION)
- Used
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- Seller
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McMinnville, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Milano: Francesco Barbini, ca. 1880. 162 x 104 mm. (6 3/8 x 4"). 528 pp.
Original printed paper wrappers (spine expertly repaired), upper cover with the image of a sleeping man in bedclothes reaching toward fortune personified as a blindfolded woman balancing on a wheel, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With numerous full pages of woodcuts. Front cover with embossed stamp of Milanese bookseller Panzeri. ◆Tear across the cover carefully repaired, light scattered browning and foxing internally, but a very good copy of an ephemeral item.
This is a charming work based on the southern Italian folk magic tradition of "smorfia," or dream interpretation, instructing the reader on how to convert nightly visions into lottery numbers. It includes some delightful woodcut illustrations of various small scenes and types of human and animal heads, with the lottery number each should suggest: the Arab head, for example, ought to incline one toward 3, the goat toward 81, the elephant 70, and so on. Also included are extensive indexes listing people, places, and objects from "accademia" to "zuppa," all with corresponding lottery inclinations. Such a fragile and ephemeral book should not have come down to us in one piece, but the fact that it remains unopened--and therefore unread--helps explain why it is still intact..
Original printed paper wrappers (spine expertly repaired), upper cover with the image of a sleeping man in bedclothes reaching toward fortune personified as a blindfolded woman balancing on a wheel, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With numerous full pages of woodcuts. Front cover with embossed stamp of Milanese bookseller Panzeri. ◆Tear across the cover carefully repaired, light scattered browning and foxing internally, but a very good copy of an ephemeral item.
This is a charming work based on the southern Italian folk magic tradition of "smorfia," or dream interpretation, instructing the reader on how to convert nightly visions into lottery numbers. It includes some delightful woodcut illustrations of various small scenes and types of human and animal heads, with the lottery number each should suggest: the Arab head, for example, ought to incline one toward 3, the goat toward 81, the elephant 70, and so on. Also included are extensive indexes listing people, places, and objects from "accademia" to "zuppa," all with corresponding lottery inclinations. Such a fragile and ephemeral book should not have come down to us in one piece, but the fact that it remains unopened--and therefore unread--helps explain why it is still intact..
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- Bookseller
- Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ST15654a
- Title
- LA VERA CABALA DEL LOTTO
- Author
- (LOTTERY AND DREAM INTERPRETATION)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Francesco Barbini
- Place of Publication
- Milano
- Date Published
- ca. 1880
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About the Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Biblio member since 2006
McMinnville, Oregon
About Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books an Manuscripts was established in 1978 on a ping pong table in a basement in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the beginning, its founder was willing to sell a range of material, but over the years, the business has gravitated toward historical artifacts that are physically attractive in some way--illuminated material, fine bindings, books printed on vellum, fore-edge paintings, beautiful typography and paper, impressive illustration. Today, the company still sells a wide range of things, from (scruffy) ninth century leaves to biblical material from all periods to Wing and STC imprints to modern private press books to artists' bindings. While we are forgiving about condition when something is of considerable rarity, we always try to obtain the most attractive copies possible of whatever we offer for sale.
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