THE COMPLETE BOOK OF FORTUNE
Book Details + Condition: Universal Text Books Limited (London, UK). First edition, 1936. Hardcover. 640 pages, with illustrations throughout. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with fading and discoloration present (as well as to spine); toning to endpapers; name to front free endpaper; interior is clean and free of markings. Large 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.
