The Manuals to learn to read the Petit Etteilla Cards Available in English For the First Time Ever!
Hardcover Edition
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In the realm of tarot and cartomancy, few texts are as seminal as Etteilla's foundational works on divination with playing cards, yet they have been inaccessible to the English speaking world for hundreds of years.

For the first time in over 250 years, the foundational works of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) on divination with playing cards are available in English offering readers unprecedented insight into his cartonomancy system. This complete translation brings together Etteilla's seminal texts from 1770 and 1773 that established many principles of cartomancy and tarot still used today.
 
"Etteilla", the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was a pioneering French cartomancer whose innovative approach to divination with playing cards (which he later went on to apply to the tarot) laid the groundwork for modern tarot and card reading practices. His detailed explanations of card symbolism and sample spread demonstrations created the foundation upon which centuries of cartomantic tradition would build.
 
This volume contains complete English translations of:
"Manière de se récréer avec un jeu de cartes" (1770)
and the expanded edition:
"Etteilla, ou la Seule Maniere de Tirer les Cartes" (1773)