Dream interpretation - Early works to 1800

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A groatsworth of wit for a penny Or, the interpretation of dreams. Shewing, I. How a Man or Maid by their Dreams may know whether they shall have them they love. II. How a Man may obtain the Love of his Mistress. III. How a Man may obtain Money in hard Times. IV. How a Man may make Choice of a loving Wife. V. How they may continue in Amity, and not be poor. VI. How to know an honest Woman from a Whore. Vii. How young Men and Maids may discover the Reality of their Lover. Viii. How they may know what Planet they were born under, what their Fortunes be, and which shall die first, the Man or the Wife. IX. How a Man may know each Day in every Month, whether himself, Wife, Child, or friend that is sick, shall live or die. X. What the Appearance of a Comet or blazing Star signifies. XI. How you may contrive a Night-Spell to catch Thieves. By Mr. Lillie.
Date: [1780?]
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Dr. Flamstead's and Mr. Patridge's new fortune-book containing, I. Their new-invented method of knowing one's fortune by a pack of cards; ... V. A treatise of moles, ..
Partridge and Flamsted (London, England)Date: [1730?]
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Providence display'd , Or a very Surprizing account of one Mr. Alexander Selkirk, Master of a Merchant-Man call'd the Cinque-Ports; who Dreaming that the Ship would soon after be lost, he desired to be left on a Desolate-Island in the South-Seas, where he liv'd Four Years and Four Months, without seeing the Face of Man, the Ship being afterwards cast away as he Dreamed. As also, How he came afterwards to be miraculously Preserv'd and Redeem'd from that fatal Place, by Two Bristol Privateers, call'd the Duke and Dutchess; that took the Rich Aquapulco Ship worth One Hundred Tunn of Gold, and brought it to England. To which is added, An Account of his Life and Conversation, Birth, and Education. His Description of the Island where he was cast; how he subsisted; the several strange Things he saw, and how he us'd to spend his Time. With some Pious Ejaculations that he used, Compos'd during his Melancholy Residence there. Written by his own Hand, and attested by most of the Eminent Merchants upon the Royal Exchange.
Rogers, Woodes, d. 1732.Date: 1712
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Behind the screen . A vision.
Date: 1742
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Partridge and Flamsted' new and well experienced fortune book delivered to the world from the astrologer's office in Greenwick-Park, for the benefit of all young men, maids, wives, and widows. ... To which is added, The whimsical lady.
Partridge and Flamsted (London, England)Date: 1781?]