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1898005345Chicago: Rand McNally 1898. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Very nice copy in olive cloth with gilt stamping. Decorative owner bookplate on pastedown. Tight copy. SCARCE. Rand McNally Hardcover
1898012741Chicago: Rand McNally 1898. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Clean bright copy in gilt-stamped olive cloth. Palmistry. Rand McNally Hardcover
1885064272London: Ward Lock & Co. 1885. Book. Poor. Hardcover. Hand-typed paper label with title and author scotch-taped to spine endpapers have been reinforced with paper and binding tape. Contents/text Very Good. 319pp. Bookplate of late astrologer Alma Crawford Graining on fly. Ward, Lock & Co. Hardcover
1886041314London: Ward Lock & Co. 1886. Book. Illus. by Rosamund Brunel Horsley. Good. Hardcover. 444pp. Moderate age toning and finger smudging to pages. Ward, Lock & Co. Hardcover
188970656London: Theosophical Publishing Company Limited 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 136; 4pp. Octavo 22 cm Rebacked. Original boards with decorative stamping to the front board bordered with later plain red cloth. New endpapers. Four pages of publisher's adverts at the rear. Ex-libris James D. Wardle with his usual markings labels and ink stamps on the spine and front pastedown. Wardle amassed an impressive library and was often called the "Socrates of State Street" Salt Lake City Utah. Circulating library stamp on the title page and several pages within the text. Pages darkened with age. A first edition of "The Principles of Astrological Geomancy" by German medical doctor theosophist occultist geomancer astrologer and author Franz Hartmann 1838-1912. Hartmann was a central figure in Theosophy. Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited hardcover
1900138<p>CARDS TO PREDICT "THE PAST THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE"<br />A COMPLETE DECK BELONGING TO AUSTRIAN TAROCK PATTERN TYPE C</p><p>THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE "WORK AND PLAY" TAROTS PRODUCED IN EUROPE.</p><p>54/54 tarot cards 114 x 62 mm chromolithography backs of the cards enriched by a double-ended neoclassical decoration round corners French suits. Tax stamp and printer's device with "Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne Ag – Wien – Registrirte Schutzmarke" on the Ace of Hearts "Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne Ag" on the Jacks of Diamonds.</p><p>The deck belongs to the pattern called Austrian Tarock pattern Type c. Four suits of 8 cards each King Queen Knight Jack and Hearts and Diamonds Ace–4 and Spades and Clubs 7–10 plus twenty-two trump cards. The trump cards depict scenes of outdoor life in various countries. The trumps and court cards are double-ended and the trumps display a different scene at each end. They are numbered with Roman numerals. Trump number II invariably has at one end the picture of a crowned eagle sword in claw perched on a rock inscribed with "Industrie Und Glück" Trump No. I the Fool is always portrayed as a stage musician.</p><p>Provenance: Tax stamp known as <em>Kartenstempel</em> named after the inscription on the upper part of the stamp which is commonly found on antique decks of playing cards particularly in Austria and the territories of the Austrian Empire. The stamp guaranteed that the deck had been legally produced and that taxes had been paid. The type of stamp present on this deck was in use between 1900 and 1920 and the value of 60 Heller indicated "a deck of more than 36 cards not lacquered not washable."</p><p>Conditions: Perfectly preserved.</p><p>REFERENCE: KATHLEEN WOWK Playing Cards of The World Lutterworth Press 1983 pp. 137-140; Peter Endebrock Playing-card Pages website 2000; SYLVIA MANN Collecting Playing cards Arco Publications 1966 pp. 105-108</p> Ferdinand Piatnik & Söhne