Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[ALLIETTE, JEAN-BAPTISTE.] Etteilla; ou, Manière de se recréer avec un Jeu de Cartes. Par M. ***. Etched frontispiece and 8 plates. 76, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt with floral tooling and morocco lettering piece, top of spine and cover corners worn; worming in upper inner corners not affecting text or illustrations. Amsterdam & Paris: Lesclapart, 1770
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first edition of the author''s first book, a treatise on divination with regular playing cards. Using his name spelled backwards as a pseudonym, the French occultist Alliette (1738-91) adopted and popularized the theories of Court de Gébelin (see lot 22) concerning the origin and esoteric applications of tarot. Kaplan, Encyclopedia of Tarot I, 40, and II, 513.