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Antique Arcana
€79.00 EUR
Unlock the mysteries of cartomancy with this elegant book and tarot set by Laura Tuan, one of Italy’s most renowned experts in esoteric studies and divination.
Published in 2006 by Éditions De Vecchi (Paris), this complete boxed edition includes a richly illustrated 78-card tarot deck inspired by classical designs, along with a 216-page hardcover guidebook (in French) exploring every aspect of tarot symbolism, prediction, and spiritual interpretation.
Includes:
🔹 78 tarot cards (Major & Minor Arcana)
🔹 Full 216-page guidebook in French
🔹 Original boxed set edition
🔹 Publisher: Éditions De Vecchi, 2006
🔹 Card size: 5 7/8" × 3" (approx. 15 × 7.5 cm)
🔹 Language: French
Condition:
Cards and book are in excellent condition. Box shows light wear from storage (see photos).
Complete and clean.
🪶 Collector’s Note:
A refined and beautifully presented edition of Les Tarots by Laura Tuan, known for her scholarly yet accessible approach to esoteric traditions.
Now out of print, this 2006 De Vecchi set is a collectible for both tarot readers and enthusiasts of classic European tarot art.
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Free shipping on orders over $250 (220€)
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Book's extract :
A STORY AS OLD AS THE WORLD
The origin of tarot cards is practically unknown; it is lost in the mists of time, beyond the boundaries of myth. In fact, it was from pre-romanticism and romanticism with the triumph of philology and archeology that the supposed “invention” of the tarot cards began an increasingly marked return to very ancient initiatory origins.
Tarot cards were then only accessible to a small minority, at the cost of difficult challenges to overcome.
Some, like the philologist Court de Gébelin, considered that the tarot cards were the fruit of Egyptian civilization. Others, like Abbot Ephilas Levi, occultist and esoteric researcher, highlighted the analogy between the twenty-two major arcana and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. For some, tarot cards originated in India where, 100 years BC. BC, a game of round cards representing the ten incarnations of the god Vishnu was very successful.
Others saw it as a legacy of ancient oracles, the product of the bohemian imagination or even the last legacy of a mysterious and vanished civilization: the mythical Atlantis to which Plato alluded in one of his famous dialogues.However, and whatever the civilization at the origin of the tarot cards, the essential lies in the religious and symbolic meaning which underlies each card so as to constitute a complete cycle, a sort of initiatory poem which revolves around a long process of purification and internal evolution. Indeed, if we consider the deep symbolism of the blades, it is not difficult to recognize in them the bases of Western esotericism, the laws of magic of the ancients synthesized in the famous "emerald tables" attributed to Hermes Trismegistus: “On earth as in heaven, above as below; a part represents the whole, the whole includes two poles, one masculine and the other feminine; the extremes touch, etc.”
Antique Arcana
€79.00 EUR
€79.00 EUR
€79.00 EUR
Unlock the mysteries of cartomancy with this elegant book and tarot set by Laura Tuan, one of Italy’s most renowned experts in esoteric studies and divination.
Published in 2006 by Éditions De Vecchi (Paris), this complete boxed edition includes a richly illustrated 78-card tarot deck inspired by classical designs, along with a 216-page hardcover guidebook (in French) exploring every aspect of tarot symbolism, prediction, and spiritual interpretation.
Includes:
🔹 78 tarot cards (Major & Minor Arcana)
🔹 Full 216-page guidebook in French
🔹 Original boxed set edition
🔹 Publisher: Éditions De Vecchi, 2006
🔹 Card size: 5 7/8" × 3" (approx. 15 × 7.5 cm)
🔹 Language: French
Condition:
Cards and book are in excellent condition. Box shows light wear from storage (see photos).
Complete and clean.
🪶 Collector’s Note:
A refined and beautifully presented edition of Les Tarots by Laura Tuan, known for her scholarly yet accessible approach to esoteric traditions.
Now out of print, this 2006 De Vecchi set is a collectible for both tarot readers and enthusiasts of classic European tarot art.
**************************************************************
Free shipping on orders over $250 (220€)
**************************************************************
Book's extract :
A STORY AS OLD AS THE WORLD
The origin of tarot cards is practically unknown; it is lost in the mists of time, beyond the boundaries of myth. In fact, it was from pre-romanticism and romanticism with the triumph of philology and archeology that the supposed “invention” of the tarot cards began an increasingly marked return to very ancient initiatory origins.
Tarot cards were then only accessible to a small minority, at the cost of difficult challenges to overcome.
Some, like the philologist Court de Gébelin, considered that the tarot cards were the fruit of Egyptian civilization. Others, like Abbot Ephilas Levi, occultist and esoteric researcher, highlighted the analogy between the twenty-two major arcana and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. For some, tarot cards originated in India where, 100 years BC. BC, a game of round cards representing the ten incarnations of the god Vishnu was very successful.
Others saw it as a legacy of ancient oracles, the product of the bohemian imagination or even the last legacy of a mysterious and vanished civilization: the mythical Atlantis to which Plato alluded in one of his famous dialogues.However, and whatever the civilization at the origin of the tarot cards, the essential lies in the religious and symbolic meaning which underlies each card so as to constitute a complete cycle, a sort of initiatory poem which revolves around a long process of purification and internal evolution. Indeed, if we consider the deep symbolism of the blades, it is not difficult to recognize in them the bases of Western esotericism, the laws of magic of the ancients synthesized in the famous "emerald tables" attributed to Hermes Trismegistus: “On earth as in heaven, above as below; a part represents the whole, the whole includes two poles, one masculine and the other feminine; the extremes touch, etc.”
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