Cagliostro

1811 · 19996 — Paris 1811. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 90 woodcut vignettes one folding table. Later wrappers made from printer’s waste worn. Uncut. Old armorial stamp on advertising leaf. In good original condition. First edition the only copy located of this monographic cheat-sheet to winning the French lottery. The text expounds on lottery operations in both Paris and Brussels offering mathematical commentary on the likelihood of a draw and financial risks to players. The author takes his assessments further into the esoteric though and weighs in on the influence of the zodiac secret societies dream interpretation and cabalistic numerology on the outcome of the game. Fifty pages comprise an alphabetic list of dream motifs and their corresponding lottery numbers and a further twenty list dream narratives and what fortune they denote. <br /> The publisher/author named his work for Alessandro Cagliostro 1743-1795 an Italian magician who dazzled courts across Europe with his performances of divination and alchemy. A figure shrouded in mystery and occultism Cagliostro’s reputation inspired copycats and storytellers for decades after his death.<br /> The Loterie Royale was established in 1776 as a public revenue interest. It was abolished during the French Revolution from 1793-1797. Each lottery drawing consisted of five numbers each between 1 and 90. The author provides all the lottery drawings from its reintroduction in 1797 until 1811 for readers to identify patterns or correlations. The publication date of this edition is derived from the last lottery number recording table which is only filled out until April of that year. unknown