Complete 78 card Spanish Tarot Deck based on a classic Italian Tarot from 1736. Contains 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana cards depicitng legends, customs, myths, symbols, Christian iconography, Jewish mysticism, alchemy, literature, Hermetic magic, the Western Mystery tradition, and numerology. Printed in Spain.
Full-colour cards with rounded corners. 60 x 110 mm. The backs have flowers in diamond shapess in grey on a sandy ground. The Devil has an extra face on its stomach and eyes on its knees.
Complete with original staple-bound 54-page printed leaflet of instructions by Stuart R. Kaplan in English and in Spanish (covers slightly foxed).
Original brown stipple printed lift-off-lidded box in very good condition with mild signs of any wear.
First impression of the first edition.
Reference -The Encyclopedia of Tarot, 1978 by Stuart Kaplan, page 277.
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