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Description
FORTUNE-TELLING: COMPRISING VARIOUS METHODS OF TELLING FORTUNES BY MEANS OF CARDS, TEA AND COFFEE GROUNDS, LOVE CHARMS, PHRENOLOGY, PALMISTRY, ETC. ALSO NAPOLEON'S ORACULUM.
Book Details + Condition: The Penn Publishing Company (Philadelphia). Early Edition, 1913. Very scarce softcover with original covers, measuring 6" x 5". 140 pages, with b&w illustrations and tables. An overview of a variety of fortune-telling and divination practices, as described by author Madame Xanto. Chapters include:
- Fortune Telling by Moles
- Fortune Telling by Cards
- Fortune Telling by Tea or Coffee Grounds
- Fortune Telling by Palmistry
- How to Tell the Day of Birth
- Astrology
- Birthstones
- Love Charms
- Flower Language
- Napoleon's Oraculum
Wonderful and scarce Art Nouveau fortune-telling book, with solid binding; aging and wear to original covers, with wrinkling and what appears to be an old burned mark to front; areas of missing paper covering to spine; staining to edges of inside front cover and first few pages (as well as to a few towards the rear); interior is clean and free of markings. A worn but very scarce copy.
