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1 print : lithograph ; image 31.6 x 26 cm

A fortune-teller reading the fortune of a young couple. Lithograph by L. Noël, 1830, after M. Gérard.

The setting is the main room of a house, probably in Greece. Nine women are around the fortune teller, who is using cards to predict something for a young woman. All of them are smiling. In the background, two men are sitting. One of them is looking at the scene. On a stool in the left foreground is the fortune-teller's knapsack, bell, and waterflask, indicating his itinerant status

1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 40.7 x 57.4 cm

A fortune-teller performing among a group of women. Wood engraving after Nicolas Gysis.

Histoire dè karte [Beginning wanting]. L'Ar okulte é kabalistike des Prince dèz Esprit Pamersiel [Unfinished]. Astrological notes on the Planets and Signs of the Zodiac [Unfinished]. On the verso of the 14th leaf, symbolic pen-drawings of 'Sol' and 'Luna'. 8 ll. in the middle are blank. Produced in Paris.

Chaussegros, Vital (1769- )

1 volume 16 ll. 4to. 241/2 x 181/2 cm. Unbound. Written on alternate yellow and white sheets. Some headings in green. Text within double black or brown rules.

Notes on the Kabbala, astrology, etc.

Bibliothèque du destin. Encyclopédie des sciences occultes

127 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 14 cm (16mo)

L'art de tirer les cartes : révélations complètes sur les destinées au moyen des cartes et des tarots d'après les méthodes les plus certaines, suivis d'un jeu des patiences / par Johannès Trismégiste [i.e. Lorambert]. Orné de 150 figures.

Tablette catégorique des significations du Livre de Thot. Servant à l'Interprétation et lecture littérale [sic] des significations hiéroglifiques de ce précieux livre, pour la partie des oracles. Avec des Annotations par M. Etteila [sic]...La partie principale est puissé [sic] de Synonimes françois etc. This MS. seems to be made up from the 'Dictionnaire synonimique du Livre de Thot' published in 1791, and the 'Code pratique de la cartomancie égyptienne' [n.d.]: the heading ot pp. 148-153 is 'Cartomancie égyptienne'. The author is described by Caillet in his 'Manuel bibliographique' 1912, Vol. I, pp. 20, 21 as 'Perruquier, cartomancien, et philosophe de l'époque révolutionnaire', and Nos. 201-217 in his catalogue are devoted to his works. Caillet also mentions a biography by Millet de Saint Pierre published at Le Havre in 1859 under the title of 'Recherches sur le dernier sorcier'.

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 153 pp. + 2 ll. 8vo. 21 x 131/2 cm. Original calf binding. Title-page in red and black.

Alliette, (pseud. Etteilla) ( -1791)

A "Biedermeier" interior with framed silhouette portraits and a mirror on the wall. An old hunchbacked woman with a black cat on her hump sits at a table, looking at various playing cards including the ace of hearts. Opposite are four seated ladies and a younger, standing, lady (presumably the "Dorothy" mentioned in the verses), eager to hear the old woman's interpretation of the cards

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 23.6 x 14.7 cm

An old woman telling fortunes from cards for four ladies in a drawing room. Coloured etching.

The pack consists of 22 cards representing the Major Arcana (the Fool, the Magician, the High Priestess, the Empress etc.), and 56 cards representing the four Minor Arcana, in the form of four suites of 14 cards each. The suites are swords, wands, cups and pentacles; each suite has an ace, II-X, King, Queen, Knight and Page

78 cards : process prints, printed in colours ; 11.6 x 7 cm + leaflet (48pp.)

The Tarot pack of cards. Seventy-eight colour process prints after watercolours by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of A.E. Waite.

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.7 x 11.2 cm

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A fortune-teller reading the fortune of a young couple. Lithograph by L. Noël, 1830, after M. Gérard.

A fortune-teller performing among a group of women. Wood engraving after Nicolas Gysis.

Notes on the Kabbala, astrology, etc.

L'art de tirer les cartes : révélations complètes sur les destinées au moyen des cartes et des tarots d'après les méthodes les plus certaines, suivis d'un jeu des patiences / par Johannès Trismégiste [i.e. Lorambert]. Orné de 150 figures.

Alliette, (pseud. Etteilla) ( -1791)

An old woman telling fortunes from cards for four ladies in a drawing room. Coloured etching.

The Tarot pack of cards. Seventy-eight colour process prints after watercolours by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of A.E. Waite.

A lavishly dressed lady is having her fortune told by a woman with cards. Etching by West, 17--, after J.E. Schenau.

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A fortune-teller reading the fortune of a young couple. Lithograph by L. Noël, 1830, after M. Gérard.

A fortune-teller performing among a group of women. Wood engraving after Nicolas Gysis.

Notes on the Kabbala, astrology, etc.

L'art de tirer les cartes : révélations complètes sur les destinées au moyen des cartes et des tarots d'après les méthodes les plus certaines, suivis d'un jeu des patiences / par Johannès Trismégiste [i.e. Lorambert]. Orné de 150 figures.

Alliette, (pseud. Etteilla) ( -1791)

An old woman telling fortunes from cards for four ladies in a drawing room. Coloured etching.

The Tarot pack of cards. Seventy-eight colour process prints after watercolours by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of A.E. Waite.

A lavishly dressed lady is having her fortune told by a woman with cards. Etching by West, 17--, after J.E. Schenau.

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