Title: FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS: OR, CARTOMANCY MADE EASY
Author: Madame Camille Le Normand (Lenormand)
Publisher: Robert M. De Witt, Publisher
City: New YorkYear: 1872 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 192, with advertisements in front and in backIllustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Very scarce first edition from 1872 of Madame Camille Le Normand's (Lenormand) FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS: OR, CARTOMANCY MADE EASY. Subtitle: Being a Pictorial and Practical Explanation of the Marvelous Art of Prophetic Fortune-Telling, Whereby, Through Simple Use of Ordinary Playing Cards, Any Person of Common Intelligence Can Glean Full, Perfect and Exact Knowledge of the Past, the Present, and the Future. As Well As of Every Secret in a Person's Life or Thoughts. The Whole Clearly and Fully Set Forth, So That Everyone Can Read Their Own Fortune and That of Others. To Which is Added a Treatise Upon Chiromancy; Or, the Art of Divination Through Reading the Human Hand, and a Full Description of the Sacred Book of Thot, the Egyptian Oracle of Destiny. With 1750 engravings. Original brown boards with decorated paste-down on front and back. In very good condition: minor wear to front decorative paste-down and general light shelfwear; bumped and rubbed corners; binding is tight and solid; interior is free of markings.
