Title engraved in English, French, and Italian below image., Tempest also possibly the printmaker. See Hindley, C. History of the cries of London, ancient and modern., 'ML' in M. Lauron forms a monogram., Imprint from title page., No. 50 bound in: The cryes of the city of London. London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1733., Number "50" etched in lower right corner., and Numbered on verso in contemporary hand.
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Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Autograph manuscript notes and translations from chiefly Italian sources on the subject of tarot probably compiled by Abner Doubleday, circa 1870-1886, including extensive discussion of tarot in relation to the Cabala, The volume includes material about tarot attributed to Alliette, Jean Belot, Thomas H. Burgoyne, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Antoine Court de Gébelin, Éliphas Lévi, R. Palmer-Thomas, Moreau de Dammartin, M. Le C. de M. (Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, Comte de Mellet), Ramon Llull (cited as Raymond Lulli), Thomas Moore Johnson, Papus, Guillaume Postel (cited as William Postel), and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, as well as extracts from the Journal of the Theosophical Society, which later became The Theosophist, and The Platonist, The volume includes astrological charts and a group of 78 hand-drawn and colored copies of Italian tarot cards, including examples made by Farinone Battista in Varallo, and Typescript front matter tipped in the volume by Stuart R. Kaplan includes an index and page notes, and a description of the volume from Charles Hamilton, Auction No. 77, May 2, 1974, Lot 283, as well as a photocopy of an entry for Doubleday from Charles Lincoln Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster's American Biographies (Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Co, 1974).
Description:
Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) was a United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War, as well as a prominent member of the Theosophical Society., In English and Italian., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Alliette, 1738-1791., Battista, Farinone., Belot, Jean., Burgoyne, Thomas H., Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795., Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 1725-1784., Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893., Fayolle, Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de, Comte de Mellet, 1727-1804., Johnson, Thomas Moore, 1851-1919., Kaplan, Stuart R., Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875., Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316., Moreau de Dammartin., Palmer-Thomas, R., Papus, 1865-1916., Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581., and Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de, 1743-1803.
Advertisement in French for a hair salon pasted on back free endpaper. Spine of vol. repaired with green paper and written in ms.: Manual of conversation., Table of coins on back lining papers., and Thomas Hardy's copy. Signed in ms.: T. Hardy, 1 Arundel Terrace, Upper Tooting, England. Signed in ms.: Hardy, Wimborne, Dorset, England. Extensive ms. annotations by Hardy. Pasted on front pastedown: booklet with ms. annotations of translated phrases. Newspaper clipping about hotels in Europe pasted on t.p. Newspaper clipping about food prices in Europe pasted at end.
Publisher:
Karl Baedeker,
Subject (Name):
Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Autograph., Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Ms. notes., and Karl Baedeker (Firm)
3 concerts exceptionnels des bruiteurs futuristes italiens.
Description:
"Inventés par Luigi Russolo ... Les concerts seront dirigés par ... Antonio Russolo auteur des six compositions musicales pour bruiteurs. Causerie préliminaire de M. Marinetti".
Publisher:
Tip. A. Tavvegia
Subject (Name):
Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944, Russolo, Luigi, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (1913- )