(Alessandro CAGLIOSTRO) ANONYME
Manuel à l'usage des actionnaires des loteries, royale de France, de Colognee, d'Offenbourg, et des Pays-Bas autrichiens, ou, Calculs indubitables et combinaisons savantes trouvées dans les papiers du célèbre Cagliostro, lors de son arrestation à Rome.[Manual for lottery players, the Royal Lottery of France, the Cologne Lottery, the Offenburg Lottery and the Austrian Netherlands Lottery, or, Indubitable calculations and clever combinations found in the papers of the famous Cagliostro, when he was arrested in Rome.]
Chez Robert Granjon • chez tous les libraires|Paris 1791 ; 1851|13 x 20.50 cm|relié
Rare first edition of a lottery manual claiming to reveal the predictions of famous occultist Joseph Balsamo, Count of Cagliostro. Published during Cagliostro's imprisonment by the Inquisition, it is the first known of its kind using his name, and most certainly the only one printed during his lifetime.
We are able to trace only two copies in libraries (BnF and Kress Library).
Numerous illustrations including a frontispiece showing Cagliostro giving lottery predictions, as well as 15 plates containing 90 vignettes depicting dreams, each associated with a lottery number. Also contains a folding leaf on the influence of sunrise and su
€5,000
