Got you covered Mike! Here's the 2nd edition of Le Tarot des Bohémiens from 1911: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027216764 Took me a long time to find, but I got it! =) Papus and Wirth evidently had a falling out sometime after they released the first edition in 1889. In retaliation...

Compared to you guys, my knowledge of the early Tarot is severely lacking, so please take my comments worth a grain of salt... =) ...but has anyone ever made a connection between the early Chariot cards and the Cardinal Virtue of Prudence? Here's an image from the Wellcome Library. It comes from an ...

Got you covered, Mike ! Here is Philosophie des hautes sciences at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_76508 After my last post, I too noticed that none of the Trismégiste books were published by Blocquel-Castiaux. Kind of throws my original theory into a cocked hat, doesn't i...

Nice job on the timeline, Mike! I did some digging... "Weller, E." refers to Emil Ottokar Weller (1823-1886), a German publisher (see here: https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12451206/emil_ottokar_weller/ ). In 1886, Weller published the Lexicon pseudonymorum , a dictionary of pseudonyms (see here: ht...

Hey Steve! Thank YOU for all of your contributions here and at Aeclectic. It's made for some enlightening reading these last couple years. =) I'll send you and Mike a PM the second I get the Dictionnaire synonimique du livre de Thot . I ordered my copies at the start of this year. I think the librar...

That's interesting about the JGSS link. I'm familiar with his involvement with the Petit Oracle des Dames deck, but have yet to do a deep dive into his life. It's been on my to-do list... Now, I just might have to take a closer look to see if there's any overlap between his published work and Blocqu...

Sorry for my absence the last few days... Wow! Interesting that your copy also has the letters at the bottom of the cards! Thanks for posting the covers, too! I was curious what they looked like. The more I see of it, the more I'm convinced that the Las Vegas copy is the original from 1838. I might ...

Hi Mike! Big fan of your work! I've probably read every single one of your archived posts at the now-defunct Aeclectic Tarot Forum at least a dozen times by now, not to mention your thousands of Tarot blogs... Nice to finally cross paths with you! =) The scans at the Internet Archive come from the c...

The lower panels of the Grand Etteilla II suit of Coins feature circular woodcuts. Each shows a woman interacting with some sort of item or scenery. There are at least 12 different images that appear on the various Etteilla II decks. To me, this indicates that they were not specifically designed for...

Hello everyone! This is my first time posting on this forum, so before we get down to brass tacks, I just thought I'd be neighborly and introduce myself. I'm a comic book writer/artist living in the Pacific Northwest. A few years ago, while working on an art project that incorporated medieval imager...