The Complete Manual of Occult Divination. Manual of Cartomancy and Occult, Volume I. & The Book of Destiny, Volume 2 (Two volumes, complete ).
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1972. Reprint. Hardcovers. Octavo. Two volumes - complete. xii + 250pp & xiv + 278pp. Original green cloth with black lettering to spine, frontis. A facsimile reprint of the two works which Waite wrote under the pseudonym "Grand Orient." The first volume, "A Manual of Cartomancy: Fortune-Telling and Occult Divination," is a broad ranging study of divination, with chapters on cartomancy (divination using playing cards, Tarot cards), "The Art of Invoking Spirits in the Crystal," "An Egyptian Method of Fortune Telling," "To Read A Person's Character by Means of Kabalistic Calculations," etc. The second volume "The Book of Destiny" comprises a number of short texts of unknown origin: "The Great Oracle of the Gods"; "The Art of Knowing the Good Genii and their Influence upon the Destiny of Men"; "The Occult Science of Jewels"; "Sidelights on Workings of Destiny in Business and Pleasure"; "Some Names of Womanhood"; etc. etc. With a new introdution by University Books editor Leslie Shepard, who calls it "an intriguing collection of mystical card and other divination systems." Covers a bit discoloured, rubbed and bumped at edges and extremities, owner's name in ink on both front blanks, paper browned, top edges discoloured, text unmarked. Overall a solid unmarked VG set in Good dust jackets. (White printed dust jackets are a bit grubby and darkened overall, a number of small and large chips at edges, not price clipped). Item #57332
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