Early Occult Tarots:

Images and/or Descriptions

Ранние оккультные Таро:

картинки и (или) описания
 
ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
 
Authors Language   Comments to non-English pages
РљСѓСЂ РґРµ Жебелен (1781) Russian  A Russian translation from Du Jeu des Tarots by Court de Gebelin. 
Eliphas Levi (1855) English  
Р СѓСЃСЃРєРѕРµ Таро РІ стиле Эттейллы (1861)   
A Russian Etteilla style Tarot (1861)
English & Russian  
Paul Christian (1863) French This page has an introduction in English.
Paul Christian (1870) English  This page has an introduction in English.
Поль Кристиан (1870) Russian A Russian translation of the source text by Paul Christian from his Histoire de la magie. Illustrated with cards from a modern Russian edition of the Ibis Tarot.
R. Falconnier (1896) French This page has an introduction in English.
"Saint-Germain" (1901) English  
Артур Эдвард РЈСЌР№С‚ (1909-1911) Russian My translation of  The Trumps Major from Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot.
Sepharial (1911) English  
Р“.Рћ.Рњ. (1911 -- 1912) Russian Tarot descriptions by a Russian occultist G.O. Moebes. (See about him in A History of the Occult Tarot by Decker and Dummett (London, 2002), pp. 199-202.) Illustrations come from The Tarot by Mouni Sadhu (which is essentially a translation of Moebes 1912 book) and from a modern Russian Tarot deck.
Успенский (1912, 1931) Russian Tarot descriptions by a Russian occultist P.D. Ouspensky. (See about him in A History of the Occult Tarot by Decker and Dummett (London, 2002), pp. 202-209.) Illustrations come from a rare photocopy the Russian 1912 edition of The Symbolism of the Tarot.
Шмаков (1916) Russian Tarot descriptions by a Russian occultist V. Shmakov. (See about him in A History of the Occult Tarot by Decker and Dummett (London, 2002), pp. 200-201.) Illustrations come from the paintings of two modern Russian artists and from a modern Russian Tarot deck.
Curtiss (1917) The Juggler only English  
Вольдемар фон Укскулль (1922) Russian A Russian translation of the Tarot descriptions by a German occultist Woldemar von Uxkull. (See about him in A History of the Occult Tarot by Decker and Dummett (London, 2002), pp. 191-194.) Illustrations by Leo Sebastian Humer come from Uxkull's book, Einweihung im alten Agypten.
Освальд Вирт (1926-7) Russian
A Russian translation of the shorter divinatory meanings of Tarot trumps from Le Tarot des imagiers du moyen age (1927) by Oswald Wirth. All 22 cards of the 1926 edition of the original deck reproduced. Compare them to the so-called "Oswald Wirth Tarot deck" [posthumous] published by AGMuller and U.S. Games -- and feel the difference!
Мэнли Рџ. Холл (1928-9) Russian My Russian translation of the "major trumps" descriptions from An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928) by Manly P. Hall. 
C.C. Zain (1936) English  
Нина Рудникова ("Сакральный мистицизм Египта", 1936) Russian "22 Arcana" descriptions by a Russian occultist Nina Rudnikova extracted from her work, The Sacred Mysticism of Egypt.
Русский Оккультный Центр (1937) Russian Tarot descriptions and images by an anonymous Russian artist from A Course in Encyclopedia of Occultism later translated from Russian into English by Mouni Sadhu
Pierre de Lasenic (Petr Kohout) (1938) Czech This page has an introduction in English.
Master Therion (Aleister Crowley) (1944) Russian My translation of Master Therion's General Characters of the Trumps as They Appear in Use.
John Dequer (1949) English  
Iglesias Janeiro (1949) Spanish This page has an introduction in English.
Franz Bardon (1956-57) English  
     
(and don't forget to take a look at modern Russian Tarots with some comments in English) 
 
 
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