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Le Tarot de la reyne. Histoire de Catherine de Médicis suivie des Sept pensées de Nostradamus

Published / Created:
1911?]
Call Number:
1976 425
Image Count:
82
Description:
BEIN 1976 425: Imperfect: all after p. 160 (Les sept pensées de Nostradamus) wanting. Very fragile. Original front wrapper. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., At head of title: Maguelone., and Preface by Maurice Lanra dated 1911.
Publisher:
Eugène Figuière & Cie [etc
Subject (Name):
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589
Subject (Topic):
Tarot
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Tarot de la reyne. Histoire de Catherine de Médicis suivie des Sept pensées de Nostradamus / Première partie

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The tarot, [circa 1870-1885].

Creator:
Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 436
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
297
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript notes and translations from chiefly Italian sources on the subject of tarot probably compiled by Abner Doubleday, circa 1870-1886, including extensive discussion of tarot in relation to the Cabala, The volume includes material about tarot attributed to Alliette, Jean Belot, Thomas H. Burgoyne, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Antoine Court de Gébelin, Éliphas Lévi, R. Palmer-Thomas, Moreau de Dammartin, M. Le C. de M. (Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, Comte de Mellet), Ramon Llull (cited as Raymond Lulli), Thomas Moore Johnson, Papus, Guillaume Postel (cited as William Postel), and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, as well as extracts from the Journal of the Theosophical Society, which later became The Theosophist, and The Platonist, The volume includes astrological charts and a group of 78 hand-drawn and colored copies of Italian tarot cards, including examples made by Farinone Battista in Varallo, and Typescript front matter tipped in the volume by Stuart R. Kaplan includes an index and page notes, and a description of the volume from Charles Hamilton, Auction No. 77, May 2, 1974, Lot 283, as well as a photocopy of an entry for Doubleday from Charles Lincoln Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster's American Biographies (Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Co, 1974).
Description:
Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) was a United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War, as well as a prominent member of the Theosophical Society., In English and Italian., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Alliette, 1738-1791., Battista, Farinone., Belot, Jean., Burgoyne, Thomas H., Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795., Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 1725-1784., Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893., Fayolle, Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de, Comte de Mellet, 1727-1804., Johnson, Thomas Moore, 1851-1919., Kaplan, Stuart R., Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875., Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316., Moreau de Dammartin., Palmer-Thomas, R., Papus, 1865-1916., Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581., and Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de, 1743-1803.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Cabala, Tarot, and Tarot cards
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The tarot, [circa 1870-1885].