MikeH
Cerulean wrote
The early date is why the other Delarue 1865-1870 books aren't listed in the back of the c. 1838..None published before about 1840 is there, and mainly put out by Blocquel and Castiaux. I checked the publisher and estimated date of publication for all of them on WorldCat.
Castiaux, Blocquel, and Delarue are all part of the same publishing family--father in law and son in law to Blocquel, according to Decker et al in Wicked Pack. They had to be part of the same company, I think, in order to all publish, by the regulations established in 1790 (and not repealed until 1945). Lismon and its variants are pseudonyms used by that company, probably for Blocquel in particular, according to Decker et al.
I will give links here, for reference, to my uploads of the publication data pages (missing the dates, of course) and then the back pages of the two books, first the c. 1865-1870 Lemarchand and then the c. 1838-1849 Orsini. The back pages are very useful for ascertaining the publication dates of the particular copies in which they occur.
First, some pages from the c. 1838-1840 Orsini. First image is the publication page and the title page; they are not actually on facing pages; I put them there to save space.; Then come the 3 end pages, listing books, pp. 210-212. I am not quite sure what all of p. 212 is about.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c1_1N34ct.../eGH3VdQKcx0/s1600/c1838OrsiniPubandTitle.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AskcFDI1o_I/TngskBYOugI/AAAAAAAADiU/m-i7iByGW8M/s1600/c1838Orsini210.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U-Fb_qDEe...hs/zJ5f08YyIdU/s1600/c1838Orsini211and212.jpg
Then here is the c. 1867 Lenormand, publication page and title page on facing pages (as they are in the original) and then the last two pages, describing other books on cartomancy. (Before that are a couple of pages on other subjects put out by the same publisher.)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qpY4FcLnt...kZKwNYDE/s1600/c1867LemarchandPubandTitle.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--VptiHHEE...C7_HSUM/s1600/c1867Lenormand2ndToLastPage.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EtheuUy3z.../dJLdmi4VPoU/s1600/c1867Lenormandbackpage.jpg
Thanks for pointing out the description of the Orsini book at the back of your 1865-1870 "Cartomancie" book put out by Delarue. However I doubt that the book they describe is the same as the book I have been talking about that I xeroxed in Las Vegas. The book being advertised by Delarue is probably the 2nd edition of Orsini, the one that Waite referenced in his edition of Papus's Tarot of the Bohemians, c. 1850-1853. The University of Nevada at Las Vegas has that book, too, I think--I had it in my hand but didn't have time to examine it. It has a more technologically advanced binding than the one I copied. It is good to know that the contents are the same as the earlier edition, more or less. I suspect that the wording of the "explications" section of that 2nd edition is the same as that in the modern Editions Dusserre booklet, and in abridged form in the Lismon booklet you have from c. 1900-1920. Its wording diverges in various ways from the book I copied, which is c. 1838-1840 and put out jointly by Delarue in Paris and Blocquel-Castiaux in Lille. I gave a running comparison of the two editions in my posts on the individual cards as treated in different books.(Note: Mike H, your Las Vegas Library copy is also from Edition Delarue, but your text is missing the complete listing of their offerings that my book has).
The early date is why the other Delarue 1865-1870 books aren't listed in the back of the c. 1838..None published before about 1840 is there, and mainly put out by Blocquel and Castiaux. I checked the publisher and estimated date of publication for all of them on WorldCat.
Castiaux, Blocquel, and Delarue are all part of the same publishing family--father in law and son in law to Blocquel, according to Decker et al in Wicked Pack. They had to be part of the same company, I think, in order to all publish, by the regulations established in 1790 (and not repealed until 1945). Lismon and its variants are pseudonyms used by that company, probably for Blocquel in particular, according to Decker et al.
I will give links here, for reference, to my uploads of the publication data pages (missing the dates, of course) and then the back pages of the two books, first the c. 1865-1870 Lemarchand and then the c. 1838-1849 Orsini. The back pages are very useful for ascertaining the publication dates of the particular copies in which they occur.
First, some pages from the c. 1838-1840 Orsini. First image is the publication page and the title page; they are not actually on facing pages; I put them there to save space.; Then come the 3 end pages, listing books, pp. 210-212. I am not quite sure what all of p. 212 is about.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c1_1N34ct.../eGH3VdQKcx0/s1600/c1838OrsiniPubandTitle.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AskcFDI1o_I/TngskBYOugI/AAAAAAAADiU/m-i7iByGW8M/s1600/c1838Orsini210.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U-Fb_qDEe...hs/zJ5f08YyIdU/s1600/c1838Orsini211and212.jpg
Then here is the c. 1867 Lenormand, publication page and title page on facing pages (as they are in the original) and then the last two pages, describing other books on cartomancy. (Before that are a couple of pages on other subjects put out by the same publisher.)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qpY4FcLnt...kZKwNYDE/s1600/c1867LemarchandPubandTitle.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--VptiHHEE...C7_HSUM/s1600/c1867Lenormand2ndToLastPage.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EtheuUy3z.../dJLdmi4VPoU/s1600/c1867Lenormandbackpage.jpg