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(TAROT.) The Art of Divination by Cards; being, A complete Revelation of Destiny by Means of Cards & Tarots according to the most certain Methods.Followed by A Game of Patience by Johannes Trismegiste [title on leaf 52r]. manuscript, written in bound notebook. Over 175 leaves. 226x186 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 leather, worn. According to pencil note on front endpaper, "Ex Libris Grazebrook [of] Stourton Castle." England, late 19th century?
Apparently an uncredited translation or adaptation of the mid-19th century L''Art de Tirer les Cartes: Révélations Complètes sur les Destinées au Moyen des Cartes et des Tarots d''après les Méthodes les plus certaines, suivis d''un Jeu des Patiences, par Johannes Trismegiste. This takes up more than two-thirds of the manuscript and is preceded by a general introduction with the following inscription at the beginning: "To Edgar Bonner Tandalai Seetarama Josier The most celebrated Astrologer of Europe This work Is most respectively Dedicated . . . By His Humble Students Mercurious & Eleusis."
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