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[Waite, A. E.].
A Manual of Cartomancy Fortune-Telling and occult Divination.
Publisher: William Rider and Son, London;
Date of Publication: 1909
Stock Code: 15523
Fourth [and best] edition, ‘revised and enlarged with plates’. Octavo, pp., viii, 249, [3], 31 catalogue of esoterica, [1], plus frontispiece and 3 plates. Publisher’s original light red buckram; titled in gilt to spine and to upper board; divination vignette in gilt to upper board; white end-papers. The slightest of shelf-wear to extremities; top edge dusty; foxing to fore-edge; binding otherwise strong and square. Internally clean. An excellent copy of a rare guidebook to practical divination. The volume draws on multiple esoteric traditions: from ancient Greek oracles, to Egyptian fortune-tellers, English cartomancers, kabbalists, and Chinese astrologers. The preface states that many of the sections of the book appeared for the first time in English in the first edition of this volume. This edition is considerably expanded, and includes additional plates depicting aspects of divination. The author, A. E. Waite (1857-1942), was co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, a Freemason, a Rosicrucian, and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. £650.00