ROYAL BOOK OF DREAMS AND VISIONS OF THE NIGHT - Raphael, 1st 1830 - DIVINATION

THE ROYAL BOOK OF DREAMS AND VISIONS OF THE NIGHT, FROM AN ANCIENT AND CURIOUS MANUSCRIPTBook Details + Condition: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange (London). First New Edition, ca. 1830 [nd]. Hardcover measuring 7-3/4" x 4.5". Dark green embossed boards, with gilt titling and decoration to front and spine. 161 pages, with b&w folding frontis star chart by [Isaac] Robert Cruikshank, dated 1830. By English astrologer Raphael [Pseudonym of Robert Cross Smith, 1795-1832]. Raphael was a founding member of the Society of Mercurii, an occult order in London that sparked an astrological and magic revival. The book is subtitled: "From an Ancient and Curious Manuscript, which Was Buried in the Earth During Several Centuries, Containing One-thousand & Twenty-four Oracles, or Answers to Dreams; By a Curious, Yet Perfectly Facile and Easy Method, Void of All Abstruse or Difficult Calculations; Whereby Any Person of Ordinary Capacity May Discover Those Secrets of Fate, Which the Universal Fi