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Grand Jeu de Societe: Les Mysteres du Destin Expliques par l'Astrologie Ancienne et Moderne. Pratiques Secretes de Mademoiselle Lenormand, Devoilees par Mme la Comtesse de C***
by [Breteau, Madame]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Paris: Passard, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. London label of W. Foulsham & Co. pasted over imprint. [Part 2 of 5). contemporary pebbled cloth. [2] 312 p.p. Illustrated with astrological tables, in-text images and decorative tail pieces. Sporadic foxing, some faded pencil checkmarks to margins. Light rubbing to boards, edges. Some fraying at spine tail. Else near fine and scarce copy, published 2 years following the death of famous French fortune teller, Marie Anne Adelaide Le Normand. Only one copy of Part 2 listed in Worldcat at the Wellcome Library. Discusses the planets, 12 houses of the Zodiac, as well as kabbalistic numbers.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001319
- Title
- Grand Jeu de Societe: Les Mysteres du Destin Expliques par l'Astrologie Ancienne et Moderne. Pratiques Secretes de Mademoiselle Lenormand, Devoilees par Mme la Comtesse de C***
- Author
- [Breteau, Madame]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Passard
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1845
- Keywords
- Witchcraft, Le Normand, Astrology, Kabbalah, Horoscopes, Fortune-telling
- Bookseller catalogs
- Occult; New Age; Witchcraft;
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All prices listed in Canadian dollars. We guarantee that all items are properly packaged and handled with care. Please allow one to two business days for your order to be shipped. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All sales will be shipped with a tracking number for your convenience.
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- Worldcat
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
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- Fine
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- A.N.
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- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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