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L'art de connaître l'avenir par la chiromancie, les horoscopes, les divinations anciennes, le marc de café, etc. / Par Johannès Trismégiste [i.e. Lorambert]. Orné de 101 figures.

Trismégiste, Johannes · 1843 · Paris : Jules Laisné, éditeur, Galerie Véro-Dodat, 1843.; [Paris] : Typographie Lacrampe et cie. · 81 pictures

A French fortune-telling manual published in Paris in 1843 by Jules Laisné, attributed to 'Johannès Trismégiste' (a pseudonym for Lorambert), covering palmistry, horoscopes, ancient divination and coffee-grounds reading for a general popular readership. The pictures are small, sketchy black-line vignettes on tan paper: ornamental medallion and leaf-garland headpieces, a loose ink study of birds, and a robed figure kneeling before an altar with smoke rising, useful to designers wanting antique occult ornament and simple engraved decorative borders.

Magic · Predictive astrology · Horoscopes · Astrology · Fortune-telling · Fortune-telling by coffee grounds

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