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Hi MikeH
I think, that very early cartomancy notes should be included in the timetable, as you have already Casanova 1765, Bologna 1750 etc.
Ross Caldwell in "Il Castello di Tarocchi" notes in his essay "Origine della Cartomanzia" ...
1. a police report in Metz, 1759-03-17, to cartomancy activities of two women, page 172
2. Oliver Goldsmith in "The Vicar of Wakefield" 1762-63 ... page 170
3. anonymous opera "Jack the gyant-Killer", page 170
Also he mentioned at the same place Lenthall cards
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Myself wrote at ... http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=250160
a few cases of cartomancy, from which I think 2 important enough, that they should be included in your list:
Das Carneval gelehrter Phantasien:
Oder Sammmlung einiger kleinen Schriften zum Nutzen und Vergnügen
Schäfer, 1763 - 148 pages, by anonymous
https://books.google.de/books?id=L9...r_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wahrsagung karten&f=false
Abhandlung der Physiognomie, Metoposcopie und Chiromantie
Christian Adam Peuschel
1769 - 401 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=S0JcAAAAcAAJ&q=karten#v=snippet&q=karten&f=false
... a Lutheran pastor with a lot of esoteric interests, but cartomancy he considers as "töricht" (stupid).
He is called a "Wolffian", which means, that he followed ideas of Christian Wolff, a German philosopher.
I think, that very early cartomancy notes should be included in the timetable, as you have already Casanova 1765, Bologna 1750 etc.
Ross Caldwell in "Il Castello di Tarocchi" notes in his essay "Origine della Cartomanzia" ...
1. a police report in Metz, 1759-03-17, to cartomancy activities of two women, page 172
2. Oliver Goldsmith in "The Vicar of Wakefield" 1762-63 ... page 170
3. anonymous opera "Jack the gyant-Killer", page 170
Also he mentioned at the same place Lenthall cards
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Myself wrote at ... http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=250160
a few cases of cartomancy, from which I think 2 important enough, that they should be included in your list:
Das Carneval gelehrter Phantasien:
Oder Sammmlung einiger kleinen Schriften zum Nutzen und Vergnügen
Schäfer, 1763 - 148 pages, by anonymous
https://books.google.de/books?id=L9...r_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wahrsagung karten&f=false
Abhandlung der Physiognomie, Metoposcopie und Chiromantie
Christian Adam Peuschel
1769 - 401 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=S0JcAAAAcAAJ&q=karten#v=snippet&q=karten&f=false
... a Lutheran pastor with a lot of esoteric interests, but cartomancy he considers as "töricht" (stupid).
He is called a "Wolffian", which means, that he followed ideas of Christian Wolff, a German philosopher.