FULL TITLE: Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées tarots [Troisieme (1783)-Quatrieme (1785) Cahiers].
Written by Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1738?-1791; cartomancien)
Published by Chez Segault, Librarie, Quai de Gêvres/ Legras, Librarie, Quai Conty, à côté du petit Dunkerque, A. Amsterdam, à Paris
Language French
DESCRIPTION:
Volumes 3 and 4 (bound in one) of Etteilla's book on the tarot. Etteilla was the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette, a French 18th-century occultist. This book is one of the first to describe using tarot as a divinatory tool.
Alliette, Jean-Baptiste. Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées tarots. Pour servir de trosieme[-quatrieme] cahier à cet ouvrage/ par Etteilla, Paris: A. Amsterdam, 1783-7. Third edition, 2 (of 4) volumes, bound in one: (12mo) in-12; v. 3: 58,[2], 59-142, [2], viij, 143-204, 12 p., [2] leaves of plates: ill; v. 4: 256 p., (p. 215 misnumbered as 217), viij, 94, [1], 24, [3] leaves of plates + (1 foldout): ill; frontispieces, seven plates in total hors-texte with a foldout plate, tables, and in-text pasted plates; chapters with head and tail pieces; bound in leather, with gold-gilt decorated spine and title "Etteilla Tarots," very good condition, with some spotting, foxing, and a few tears (including along several foredges).
Includes “Science. Leçons : Théoriques et Pratiques du Livre Thot”, viii, and “Science. Leçons : Théoriques et Pratiques du Livre Thot: Moyennes Classes.”, 1787 94 p. ; “Apperçu d’un Rigoriste sur la Cartomancie et sur son Auteur,” 24 p.
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CONDITION: Very good condition, with some spotting, foxing, and a few tears (including along several page foredges). Volume 4 (quatrieme cahier) seems to be missing the plate associated with p. 28. BOOK MEASUREMENTS: in-12
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