Additional reviews/version buying hints
If you wanted a French version of Etteilla III and a small look and a short introduction, this version was reviewed by Gina Pace--a very general review, but she did include pictures:
http://www.wicce.com/1890egyptien.html
I include an excerpt explaining the Etteilla III and hopefully a clear explanation between the Jeu des Dames of Editions Dussiere and the Lo Scarabeo Book of Thoth Etteilla Tarot, in case you want to buy them:
My copy says:Tarot Egyptien: Reproduction d'un Jeu de 78 cartes edite vers 1870 DONT L'Original est conserve a la bibiotechque Nationale de Paris...it's reproduced by Editions Dussere. Paris, tel 589.40.21 Maitres Cartiers Boechat Freres (made in France) and I got it through Daniel Onafray in France through a Tarotpassages.com link. The LWB is titled: Tarot Egyptien: Grand Je de l'Oracle des Dames Notice Explicative Methode d'Etteilla et du Livre de Thot. I've called this deck Jeu des Dames in the past, but it is also known as Grand Etteilla III--yes, this is the third version..
The Lo Scarabeo booklet says "Five booklets entitled Maiere de recreer ave le Jeu de Cartes nomees Tarot (How to relax with the card game Tarot) were published in Amsterdam and Paris between 1783 and 1787 by Jean Francois Alliete (1724 ca 1792). The 1789 tarot deck seems not to have survived entirely, but a reprint by Melchior Montmignon D'Oducet, a student of Etteilla had a complete version printed again in 1804. This is Grand Etteilla II.
Giordano Berti says the text of Julia Orsini (1840) came with all 78 cards of the D'Oudoucet deck with the following variations: Number 1, Chaos, replaced Light. In number 15 the priest was replaced with a magician in front of a table on which there was a mannequin. In number 21 there is a bearded man with an evil look on the four wheeled chariot and titled "The African Despot." Number 78 became "Folle of the Alchemist". (Mari's note: This looks like the fool). This was the Grand Etteilla II...and now I'll get to my version, the III.
The Version III, also accompanied with the Julia Orsini text, was entitled Grand Jeu de Oracle des Dames and included medieval style figures. Also the difference between II and III---in III, Prudence (12) became a young girl with amirror with a serpent holding on the handle and Temperance (no. 10) became a woman holding a horse's bit. The captions on the cards do not differ between the II and III.
Julia Orsini's text is said to have influenced Mathers, Papus, Crowley, Thhylbus and "the editor of Lo Scarabeo's "Book of Thoth Etteila Tarot, Rodrigo Tebani." Giordano Berti contributed the written introduction.
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By the way, Lo Scarabeo also has an earlier Etteila-style/influenced tarot called Ancient Esoteric...Diane Wilkes reviews it, and Mark Filpas has a similar deck titled Italian Cartomancia...I don't know if it is the Etteilla II style, as these are Italian versions of the Etteilla.
http://www.tarotpassages.com/esoteric.htm
http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Reviews/cartoma.html
Diane Wilkes of Tarot Passages also reviews the Grimaud version...and you can see all the cards of that version on
www.tarot.com. If people have time to compare or follow James Revak's discussion, this online version might be helpful to look at for study.
Best wishes,
Mari H