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Etteilla's early book online!
Wow!
This is a book I am searching for since I begun to be interested in Tarot:
"Etteilla ou la seule manière de tirer les cartes"
bei Etteilla.
It was first printed in 1770 and has been reprinted several time.
You can find and download here a PDF of the second edition (1773) of this book!
It has been made available by Google:
http://books.google.de/books?id=CI8...+les+cartes&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
It seems to be available since December 2008 and some Pictures are not complete, but as it is almost impossible to find this book, one should not complain.
For those who do not know what is this book, it is about cartomancy with a 32 card game, long before Etteilla knew about Tarot cards.
One can find in this book the basic of Etteillas later Tarot divination
Almost all the meanings in this book are applied with very few corrections to the minor on his later Tarot deck.
I notice something very interesting too.
Though Etteilla writes all kind of fabulous and unbelievable stories about how he got his knowledge , the style in this book is much lighter than in "Manière de se récréer ...".
One can even find a kind of light humor in his book, or almost with a wink as if he would not take the whole thing too seriously.
This is absolutely not so in the several volumes of "Manière de se récréer ..." which is very very serious and also very very confusing!
I would say this book is a must for everyone using Tarot cards.
To me this is something like the very beginning of Tarot divination, and of course in my very personal opinion not really serious
BTW this book is also a good complement to cerulean thread about Julia Orsini.
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=122670
Of course the book is in french
Best regards
PS.
BTW for anyone interesting in some other Etteillas originals, at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are a few books from Etteilla available to download.
go here:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/advancedsearch?lang=en&submitAdvsearch=Advanced+search
and type Alliette in the Author field
following books are there:
. L'oracle pour et contre mil sept cent quatre-vingt-onze
. Le petit oracle des dames, ou Récréation du curieux
. Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées tarots (this is only the "Premier Cahier" of this book)
. Le zodiaque mystérieux, ou Les oracles
Wow!
This is a book I am searching for since I begun to be interested in Tarot:
"Etteilla ou la seule manière de tirer les cartes"
bei Etteilla.
It was first printed in 1770 and has been reprinted several time.
You can find and download here a PDF of the second edition (1773) of this book!
It has been made available by Google:
http://books.google.de/books?id=CI8...+les+cartes&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
It seems to be available since December 2008 and some Pictures are not complete, but as it is almost impossible to find this book, one should not complain.
For those who do not know what is this book, it is about cartomancy with a 32 card game, long before Etteilla knew about Tarot cards.
One can find in this book the basic of Etteillas later Tarot divination
Almost all the meanings in this book are applied with very few corrections to the minor on his later Tarot deck.
I notice something very interesting too.
Though Etteilla writes all kind of fabulous and unbelievable stories about how he got his knowledge , the style in this book is much lighter than in "Manière de se récréer ...".
One can even find a kind of light humor in his book, or almost with a wink as if he would not take the whole thing too seriously.
This is absolutely not so in the several volumes of "Manière de se récréer ..." which is very very serious and also very very confusing!
I would say this book is a must for everyone using Tarot cards.
To me this is something like the very beginning of Tarot divination, and of course in my very personal opinion not really serious
BTW this book is also a good complement to cerulean thread about Julia Orsini.
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=122670
Of course the book is in french
Best regards
PS.
BTW for anyone interesting in some other Etteillas originals, at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are a few books from Etteilla available to download.
go here:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/advancedsearch?lang=en&submitAdvsearch=Advanced+search
and type Alliette in the Author field
following books are there:
. L'oracle pour et contre mil sept cent quatre-vingt-onze
. Le petit oracle des dames, ou Récréation du curieux
. Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées tarots (this is only the "Premier Cahier" of this book)
. Le zodiaque mystérieux, ou Les oracles