MikeH
Nice work, Kwaw. Thermidor of year X would be in July of 1807. The year started on Sept. 22.
It is hard to know what to make of a few of the bibliographic references; they are way too early, for that publisher; they must refer to the claimed date of original publication. Notably:
Wicked Pack's first notice of Gueffier jeune is 1820, a reprint of Zodiac Mysterieuse with advertisements of other works, including the 78 cards, engraved and carefully colored, for fr. 6.50. This is on pp. 113-114 of Wicked Pack. They also say, p. 274 note 64, that the book was reissued "some years later" but without further details, other than that the reprint is "126 pp.; 12 mo." For this reprint and the 1820, the Zodiac Mysterieuse was published together in the same book with the 1791 Etteilla ou l'art de tirer les cartes, for which Etteilla himself seems to have written the forward (it is not to be confused with other books with similar titles) (Wicked Pack p. 96).
P. 114 of Wicked Pack mentions Peytieux as "newly established" in 1827, selling the deck with other works for fr. 36 and by itself for fr. 6.0. That is what you have for 1817! The "veuve Gueffier" is mentioned on p. 145 as selling a "Petit Oracle des Dames" in 1807, with an earlier edition by Mme. Finet, but with only 36 cards. On p. 146 we learn that the "classic version" had 42 cards; its designs were borrowed in part from a fortune-telling pack of 1790 and in part from Etteilla's tarot pack. The footnotes are to Depaulis, Les Cartes de la Revoltuion 1984 no. 132 and his Mademoiselle Lenormand, 1989 no. 99.
It is hard to know what to make of a few of the bibliographic references; they are way too early, for that publisher; they must refer to the claimed date of original publication. Notably:
and (as you suggest)c.1802 or earlier,Le Petit Oracles des Dames, originally by Gueffier,
__* Etteilla, ou manière de se récréer avec un jeu de cartes. Paris, Lesclapart, 1770 in- 12. -- Nouvelle édit. (sons le titre du Petit Ëtieilla) contenant 33 cartes dans un étui avec la manière de s’en servir, et le livre des rêves). Paris, (Gueffier jeune) in-18, 3 fr.
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Zodiaque (le) mystérieux, oo les Oracles d’Etteilla. Paris, Gueffier jeune. ( Pey tieux), 1772 in-8, 4 fr.
Wicked Pack's first notice of Gueffier jeune is 1820, a reprint of Zodiac Mysterieuse with advertisements of other works, including the 78 cards, engraved and carefully colored, for fr. 6.50. This is on pp. 113-114 of Wicked Pack. They also say, p. 274 note 64, that the book was reissued "some years later" but without further details, other than that the reprint is "126 pp.; 12 mo." For this reprint and the 1820, the Zodiac Mysterieuse was published together in the same book with the 1791 Etteilla ou l'art de tirer les cartes, for which Etteilla himself seems to have written the forward (it is not to be confused with other books with similar titles) (Wicked Pack p. 96).
P. 114 of Wicked Pack mentions Peytieux as "newly established" in 1827, selling the deck with other works for fr. 36 and by itself for fr. 6.0. That is what you have for 1817! The "veuve Gueffier" is mentioned on p. 145 as selling a "Petit Oracle des Dames" in 1807, with an earlier edition by Mme. Finet, but with only 36 cards. On p. 146 we learn that the "classic version" had 42 cards; its designs were borrowed in part from a fortune-telling pack of 1790 and in part from Etteilla's tarot pack. The footnotes are to Depaulis, Les Cartes de la Revoltuion 1984 no. 132 and his Mademoiselle Lenormand, 1989 no. 99.