[Rarebooks] FS: 1745 psychological study of fantasy and illusion

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Muratori, Lodovico Antonio. DELLA FORZA DELLA FANTASIA UMANA. Trattato… 
Venice: Giambatista Pasaquale. 1745. First edition. 8vo. xvi,256pp. Woodcut device 
on title. Orig. plain thin carton boards, a bit soiled. Old faded water stain 
at top inner margin of the final leaves.     $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
An early psychological study on the imagination, fantasy and illusion. This 
1745 is the first edition (a bibliographical citation of a 1740 edition is an 
error). Curiously, the publishers printed two editions (priority unknown) in 
1745, the other with pagination of viii,176pp.

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