Early Occult Tarots: Images and/or Descriptions

 
 
Different versions of Oswald Wirth Tarot design
(I would suggest names Wirth I for the 1889 version and Wirth II for 1926 and later versions)
 
 
 
 
Cards from Les 22 Arcanes du Tarot Kabbalistique, Paris, 1889. 
Reproduced here from Manly P. Hall's poster A Layout of Major Tarot Trumps.
Illustrations from Papus' Le Tarot des Bohemiens, Paris, 1889. 
Reproduced here from an English translation, The Tarot of the Bohemians, 1914.
Cards from Le Tarot des imagiers du moyen age, Paris, 1926. This deck is currently published by Editions de l'Aigle as Le Tarot de Oswald Wirth.
The early editions of Wirth's book with the same title, Le Tarot des imagiers du moyen age, are said to be illustrated with the same design.
Cards from Le Tarot des imagiers du moyen age, Paris, 1966, and later editions (the same as Oswald Wirth Tarot Deck published in 1976 by U. S. Games Systems as "the original and only authorized Oswald Wirth Tarot deck"). 
 
Illustrations from Elisabeth Haich's Tarot, die 22 Bewusstseinsstufen des Menshcen, Stuttgart, 1969. 
Reproduced here from an English translation, The Wisdom of the Tarot, 1984.

 
 
Early Occult Tarots: Images and/or Descriptions

 
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