Two original first editions by
Moreau de Dammartin
Paris 1839 & undated*
*but mentioned in Journal de l’Institut Historique 1837
These are unique and important early French original occult works
Only one copy of each available
& these are the only copies available for sale worldwide
(World Catalogue lists only a few examples in major Libraries including one in the USA)
Both volumes are original and in French
The first volume is:
Typologie
Ou Description Pratique et Detailllee
Des Characteres Alphabetiques
(Typology or Description, Practice and Detail Alphabetical Characters)
Updated but mentioned in Journal de l’Institut Historique 1837
This is the authors only other known
complete published book
A lithographically printed large format work intended for artists and sculptors etc. and shows Dammartins lifelong preoccupation with alphabets and design.
Original dilapidated binding (boards, paper over cloth, original sewing onto linen tapes, printed lithographically throughout. 16pp essay with 66 plates.
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The second volume is:
A rare and remarkable source for the
Tarot Major Arcana attributions in French
Moreau de Dammartin
Origine de la Forme Des Characteres Alphabetiques Des clefs Chinoises, des Hieroglyphs Egyptiens &c
Paris 1839
(Moreau de Dammartin Origin of the form of alphabetic characteristics, Chinese Keys, Egyptian Hierogliphs & c)
Paris 1839
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An important early French work on the Tarot Major Arcana attributions and ancient alphabets/star systems in the Occidental and Oriental systems.
This rare and almost unknown work influenced the great French occultist Eliphas Levi and is mentioned in his ‘Trancendental Magic’.
Full text with all 34 illustrative plates present, large format rebinding preserving original printed paper wrappers. Text and plates printed by lithography onto a fine paper, some foxing consistent with age. 88pp plus 34 large format plates.
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The system of attributing Hebrew letters and star patterns to the Major Arcana of the Tarot that is generally used today derives in the main from the writings of Eliphas Levi, S.L.Macgregor Mathers Aleister Crowley and the Inner Order papers of the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn etc.
The first real clue to the existence of such an initiated system of magic was given by Eliphas Levi in the middle of the 19th century.
Levis system was later worked out in skeletal form by the English Rosicrucian Frederick Holland, but few have seen his linear conceptual sketches. William Wynn Westcott later made another attempt at codifying the Major Arcana attributions and their origins in his ‘Tabula Bembina sive Mensa Isiaca’ an essay on the famous late classical Egyptophile bronze plate in Italy.
on a cosmic scale.
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