THE COMPLETE BOOK OF FORTUNE
Book Details + Condition: Universal Text Books Limited (London, UK). First edition, 1936. Hardcover with decorated boards. 640 pages, with illustrations throughout. Large and very thorough volume on the various methods of divination popular throughout time. Subtitled "A comprehensive survey of the occult sciences and other methods of divination that have been employed by man throughout the centuries in his ceaseless efforts to reveal the secrets of the past, the present and the future." Contents include:
- Phrenology
- Reading the Tea Leaves
- The Dream Oraculum
- Fortune-telling by Playing-Cards
- Numerology
- The Science of Graphology
- Divination by Dice and Dominoes
- The Science of Astrology
- Chirognomy and Chiromancy: The Art of Reading the Head
- Oracles, Omens, and Popular Superstitions
- Talismans and Amulets
- The Virtues of Precious Stones
- The Language and Meaning of Flowers
- The Meanings of Christian Names
- and much more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; aging and wear to boards, with fading and mottling/discoloration present (mainly to rear); slight lean to book; toning to endpapers; light foxing to first and last few pages; inked notes to front free endpaper; interior pages are clean and free of markings.
