Here's a few suggestions for checking out history
If you want several topics in tarot history covered, including how different authors and thinkers treated tarot minors, some great references for me:
A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot
Ronald Decker, Thierry DePaulis & Michael Dummett
A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1970
Ronald Decker & Michael Dummett
As a general guide...
And perhaps this timeline is helpful as you work through your resources:
http://www.tarotpassages.com/mkgtimeline.htm
Beginning at 1780, there's more specific items of Minor Archana correspondences with astrology and tarot cards:
1783-86 Publication of Etteilla’s Manière de se ré créer avec le Jeu de Cartes nommées Tarots (A way to entertain onesel with the pack of cards called Tarots) in four parts. He claims it was devised by a committee of seventeen magi, presided over by Hermes Trismegistus nearly 4,000 years before. The first copy was inscribed on leaves of gold which were disposed about a fire temple at Memphis. [3Ds, pp. 83-85] His recreation of the deck has the first 12 cards based on the creation myths in the Divine Pymander, and on astrology, as he felt Tarot could be consulted in an astrological manner.
1789 Publication of the first Etteilla deck. Available as the Grand Etteilla deck from Grimaud since 1982. The Trumps and all astrological correspondences are as follows:
1 - Etteilla - Le Consultant (Male). Aries. (Papus says this is "special to the Tarot of Etteilla" - I'd make it the Bateleur (as does Edmond))
2 - Eclaircissement (Enlightenment/Fire). Taurus. (Papus: Sun)
3 - Propos (Discussion/Water). Gemini. (Papus: Moon)
4 - Dépouillement (Loss/Air). Cancer. (Papus: Star)
5 - Voyage (Travel/Earth). Leo. (Papus: World)
6 - Nuit (Night/Day). Virgo. (Papus: Empress - I'd make it the Popess)
7 - Appui (Support/Protection). Libra. (Papus: Emperor)
8 - Etteilla - Le Consultante (Female). Scorpio. (Papus: Popess - I'd make it the Empress)
9 - La Justice (Justice/Jurist). Sagittarius. (Papus: Justice)
10 - La Tempérance (Temperance/Priest). Capricorn. (Papus: Temperance)
11 - La Force (Strength/Monarch). Aquarius. (Papus: Force, i.e., Strength)
12 - La Prudence (Prudence/The Masses). Pisces. (Papus: Hanged Man)
13 - Mariage (Marriage/Union). (Papus: Lovers)
14 - Force Majeure (Absolute Necessity/Absolute Necessity). (Papus: Devil)
15 - Maladie (Illness/Illness). (Papus: Bateleur - I'd make it the Pope - it shows the same person as performed the Marriage (in bishop's fish-hat) holding a wand over an altar table with ram's heads on the corners; one of the reversed meanings is "Mage".
16 - Jugement (Judgment/Judgment). (Papus: Judgment)
17 - Mortalité (Death/Nothingness). (Papus: Death)
18 - Traître (Traitor/Traitor). (Papus: Hermit)
19 - Détresse or Misere (Poverty/Prison). (Papus: Tower)
20 - Fortune (Fortune/Raise). (Papus: Wheel of Fortune)
21 - Dissension (Disagreement/Disagreement). (Papus: Chariot)
68 - Ten of Coins = Part of Fortune
69 - Nine of Coins = South Node
70 - Eight of Coins = North Node
71 - Seven of Coins = Saturn
72 - Six of Coins = Jupiter
73 - Five of Coins = Mars
74 - Four of Coins = Moon
75 - Three of Coins = Venus
76 - Two of Coins = Mercury
77 - Ace of Coins = Sun
(From Mary Greer's timeline reference)
Likely you've gathered some other Etteilla references already...I found Papus as well as other historical references useful on my reading journeys.
But not everyone wants more than a good reading outline of tarot heritage, and I think Paul Huson's book is a nice guide of different historic deck styles and heritages. The minors are covered wonderfully in that book and organized in a way to be a great reference.
Hope your researches lead to interesting insights.
Cerulean