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1991réf. 171957Riga: Moya Biblioteka 1991. 119p. hardcover very good but for book plate inside front cover. Reprint of the 1911 edition. Russian edition of the French Russophile's book on Masonic symbology. Reprinted after the dissolution of Soviet-era bans on Freemasonry. Moya Biblioteka unknown books
1889réf. 2834First Edition. 372 pages. 8 leaves of plates : many text illustrations including one folding leaf pp. 257-260 ; 26 cm small 4to. Includes inxed and bibliographies "Notice sur les auteurs qui se sont occupés du tarot": p. 305-308; "Table alphabétique des auteurs et des principaux ouvrages cités": p. 369-372. Excellent condition. Recent green cloth with gilt spine title original front and rear orange publisher's wrappers bound in. 2834 An unusually attractive copy of 'The Tarot of the Bohemians' by Papus in the original French as it was first published. Copies of the 1889 edition in good condition are exceedingly scarce: as of June 2026 we can locate only four holdings in North America using OCLC. Later printings abound as do translations. The author Gérard Encausse b. 1865 d. 1916 aka "Papus" was a notorious and influential figure of the occult in Paris at the turn of the century. Le Tarot des Bohémiens remains a cardinal work of esoteric literature in cartomancy. Very scarce and essential work for academic research collections focusing on tarot Kabbalah and fortune telling. G. Carré books
