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Tarot & Divination Books
£750.00
The Most Ancient Book in the World - For the Use of Initiates
Second Edition Revised, With Preface by A.E. Waite
Published by William Rider & Son, 1914 [reprint of the Rider edition published in 1910]
Hardbound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and full design to front, 7.5 x 5 inches, xxvii, 355 pages with frontispiece plus 16 ads pages, illustrated with numerous plates and woodcuts.
Condition:
Clean, unmarked text pages, firm binding, mild soiling to front and back covers, slight fading to gilt lettering to spine, mild bumping to extremities of binding with small tear to upper corner of spine, slight dust soiling to top and bottom of text block, owner's name written in small letters and faded ink on top front endpaper - in all a good + copy of this very scarce title.
£36.99
n exploration of the Tarot’s mystical roots, with a guide to The Tarot of Marseilles, The Waite Smith Tarot, The Alchemical Tarot, and The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery. Now with 59 updates since the second edition and two new illustrations
The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism Third Edition incorporates the material that was in Alchemy and the Tarot and The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, but updates the facts and, as you can tell by the title, covers a lot more material—about three times as much, with 680 pages and over 302 illustrations.
£19.99
Before Aleister Crowley, before Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, before the Golden Dawn, before Papus, Éliphas Lévi, and Etteilla, the first author to describe an occult version of the Tarot was Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, comte de Mellet, writing in Antoine Court de Gébelin’s, 1781, eighth volume of his monumental encyclopedia, Monde primitif.
The comte de Mellet associated the Tarot’s trumps with the Classical Ages of Man: the Age of Gold, the Age of Silver, and the Age of Iron. He correlated the Trumps with the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, he described the minor suits in detail, and he provided the earliest discussion of a divination technique for the Tarot.
£30.00
A conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet on the esoteric tarot, in relation to the elite and Saturnian Sola-Busca tarocchi and the popular and luminous Tarot de Marseille. The two leading researchers into the hidden legacy of the tarot discuss the significance of their discoveries, which overturn the prevailing academic orthodoxy, and in doing so transform our understanding of the role of tarot in Western esotericism.
Standard hardback edition limited to 800 copies.
Bound in mandarin cloth stamped in gold, black endpapers. Printed in colour on premium 150 gsm paper.