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• The Gap in the Curtain (1932), by John Buchan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• You are forbidden!, by Jerry Shelton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Quick Action, by Robert W. Chambers, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg ebook)

• The sea of circumstance (The Abbey Press, 1902), by Jeanne G. Pennington and N.Y.) Abbey Press (New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• The Norwood Gipsy's Fortune Teller (London: W. S. Fortey, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oracles From the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman
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• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York and London: J. Wiley, 1848), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York: Clark, Austin and Smith, 1854), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman
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• Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup, by Cicely Kent (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Universal Fortune Teller: Being Sure and Certain Directions for Discovering the Secrets of Futurity (London: W.S. Fortey, ca. 1870) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Fate: Formerly in the Possession of and Used by Napoleon (New York: H. S. Nichols, 1923), trans. by H. Kirchenhoffer
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• Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
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• Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), by Charles Godfrey Leland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Witches' Dream Book, and Fortune Teller (published anonymously; New York: H. J. Wehman, 1885), by A. H. Noe (Gutenberg text)
• Spook Crooks! Exposing the Secrets of the Prophet-eers Who Conduct Our Wickedest Industry (New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co., c1932), by Julien J. Proskauer, illust. by James Savage and Howard Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fortune telling by cards, numbers and tea leaves (The Charles Renard co., 1925), by pseud "Auro" (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tamrā mahāthaksā. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1928), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Strassburger Würfelbuch von 1529. Facsimile-druck der Erstausgabe (K. J. Trübner, 1918), by Alfred Götze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling (T. F. Unwin, 1891), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspearian oracle (Bunce & Brother, 1855), by William Shakespeare, John Cruger Mills, and Bunce & Brother (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on contemporary religious jurisprudence. (Waldain Press, 1948), by I. H. Rubenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shinsen hakke genkai himitsu bako (1748), by Shūboku (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ganzan Daishi mikuji eshō (1865), by Ryōgen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Di li bian zheng su. (1920), by Xinyan Zhang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hādhihi risālah fī ikhtilājāt al-aʻḍāʾ ʻalá mā qālahu Iskandar wa-Dhū al-qarnayn wa-Dānyāl wa-ḥukamāʾ al-Furs wa-fuḍalā al-Rūm ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl : manuscript, [19th century?]. (in the 19th century), by Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yuan Liuzhuang xian sheng shen xiang quan bian (880-04 [China] : [publisher not identified], Xianfeng wu wu nian [1858], 1858), by Zhongche Yuan and Yi zhongdaoren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeng shan bu yi (Jin zhang shu ju, in the 1970s), by Yehelaoren and Wenhui Li (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ditt ödes bok. Greven av Cagliostros magiska cirklar. Övers. (Dahlberg, 1921), by Alessandro Cagliostro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Your invisible self (De Vorss & Co., 1935), by Florence Helen Sanderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katechismus der Wahrsagekünste mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Punktirkunst; eine kulturhistorische Studie. (K. Siegismund, 1892), by Gustav Wilhelm Gessmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The witches of New York (Rudd & Carleton, 1859), by Q. K. Philander Doesticks (page images at HathiTrust)
• El libro de las adivinanzas, ó sea la buenaventura : y también de los secretillos del corazón, tunanterías ocultas, macandaes hipócritas y otras cosuelas (Librero Antonio Rubiños, 1916), by pseud Azucena. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sobranīe taĭnykh nauk (V tip. gazety "Russkīĭ", 1868), by A.-Frédéric de La Grange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le grand et infaillible oracle des dames et des demoiselles; ou, Le conseiller intime du beau sexe ([s.n.], 1849), by Étienne Ducret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Wahrsagen (J. Springer, 1926), by Hubert Streicher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les cartes à jouer, et la cartomancie (L. Hachette et cie, 1854), by Paul Boiteau d'Ambly and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Marchand's Fortune teller, and dreamer's dictionary ... Also, showing how to tell fortunes by the wonderful and mysterious ladies' love oracle ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863), by Madame Le Marchand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parlor entertainment (Derby & Jackson, 1860), by D. M. Angell and Caroline M. Mersereau (page images at HathiTrust)
• La clef d'or; ou, L'astrologue fortuné devan ... traduit de l'italien d'Albumazzar de Carpenter ... (Matheron, in the 1850s), by pseud Albumazar de Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philippi Mariae Renazzi advocati et antecessoris Romani de sortilegio et magia. Liber singularis ... (Fratres Coleti, 1792), by Filippo Maria Remazzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das bleigiessen; eine zusammenstellung der verschiedenen figuren und ihre deutung für die zukunft ... (Danner, 1920), by Max Ressel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Napoleon's Oraculum; or, Book of fate ... only complete American, from the 50th London ed. (Fisher, in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oracolo nuovissimo ossia il Libro dei destini del imperatore Napleone I⁰. Storia dei sogni celebri realizzati e spiegazione dei sogni; pronostici tolti dalle fasi della luna; pronostici sui bambini secondo il giorno di nascita. (Bietti, 1915), by Osrevar Toigar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tespih falı (Cemiyet Kütüphanesi, 1917), by Seyyid Süleyman El-Hüseynî (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Your future revealed by the gods of Greece, in the words of Shakespere. (P. C. Kenyon, printer, 1893), by William Shakespeare, Carrie W. Hawley, and Ruth Windsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Shakesperean oracle. (Bunce & brother, 1855), by William Shakespeare and John Cruger Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gipsy's present; an unerring guide to the science of fortune-telling. To which is added, the signification of moles, and a treatise on the art of palmistry. (O.Hodgson, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trial of Joseph Powell, the fortune-teller, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, October 31, 1807 (Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1808), by Joseph Powell, Joseph Gurney, and England) Society for the Suppression of Vice (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fixed stars; or, An analyzation and refutation of astrology ... to which is added many anecdotes shewing the folly and also the mischievous tendency of fortune-seeking, fortune-telling, and almanack predictions. Likewise some eminent testimonies, both in prose and in verse, against astrology, fortune-seeking, fortune-telling, &c. (Printed by C. Berry; sold by Baynes, 1814), by George Beaumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fortunes and dreams (G. Sully and company, 1917), by Astra Cielo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madame Zadkiel's Fortune teller and mirror of fate ... (Excelsior publishing house, 1884), by Jesse Haney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The model book of dreams, fortune teller, and epitome of parlor entertainments (J. R. Hawley & co., 1864), by Henry Temple and Cordelia M. Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother Shipton's Gipsy fortune teller and dream book (H. J. Wehman, 1890), by A. Wehman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystic oracle (F.M. Lupton, 1893), by F. M. Lupton and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mystic test book ([The Temple publishing company], 1893), by Olney H. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new and complete fortune teller: (Pub. by Richard Scott, George Largin, printer, 1816), by pseud Ibraham Ali Mahomed Hafez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The seaside sibyl ([Evening journal], 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The royal book of fate: Queen Elizabeth's oracle of future events, from an illuminated manuscript, found in the library of the unfortunate Earl of Essex ... (Sherwood and co., 1856), by Raphael and Zadkiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oracles from the poets: a fanciful diversion for the drawingroom (Wiley and Putnam, 1844), by Caroline Howard Gilman and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oracles from the poets : a fanciful diversion for the drawing room (H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1852), by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gamli Spámaður (Prentað á kostnað J. Grímssonar, af H. Helgasyni., 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mirror of fate. (A. Tompkins, 1846), by Hannah Jane Woodman Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• El libro de las adivinanzas (Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Cadiz, 1989), by la gitana Azucena (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oracles from the poets : a fanciful diversion for the drawing-room (Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mamsell Arfvidssons spåbok ([s.n., 1916), by Anna Arfvidsson and Th Tomponelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Millīon snov : novyĭ i polnyĭ sonnik : predskazanīe snov, gadanīe na kartakh i pr. : raspoznavanīe budushchago po rukam i po lit︠s︡u chelovi︠e︡ka (SP Amskort Internėshnl, 1990) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mehemet Ali's Oriental interpretation of dreams. (Barclay & co., 1873), by Charles F. F. Kayser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human experience. (The author, 1894), by Thomas Telfer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le quadruple oracle des dames et des demoiselles; ou, La verité obtenue suivant toutes les règles de la divination ancienne et moderne, donnant à 100 questions 2,500 solutions ou réponses obtenues à l'aide des jeux de cartes, dominos, dés et autres complètement inédits, augm. de La voix de destin, nouveau système divinatoire ... (Bernardin-Béchet, 1862), by Halbert d'Angers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pahlavi cartomalcy or card reading; a new and complete method adapted to the Pahlavi cards. (Pahlavi card co., 1904), by Sarah Adelaide Mounton and Luther Vanhorn Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Napoleon's Oraculum and dream book. Containing the great oracle of human destiny. (F. Tousey, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shen xiang jin jiao jian (Jiu yao fang shou jing tang, 1889), by Mayijushi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Universal fortune teller : being sure and certain directions for discovering the secrets of futurity. (W.S. Fortey, 2 and 3 Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury, 1860), by W. S. Fortey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic tree, and tales of fate (Printed by and for Hodgson and Co., No. 10, Newgate-Street, 1822), by Bridgetina De Etna, Robert Cruikshank, and Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young lady's oracle : a fireside amusement. (J. Miller, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gypsy witch fortune teller : gathered from authentic sources by the Queen of the Romanies (Stein, 1916), by Carleton B. Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer goralot urim ṿe-tumim. (Tsevi Ṿohl, 1895), by of Adrianople Avraham ben Avraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art d'expliquer les songes (s.n.], 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shi Kuan shen xiang jin jiao jian. (Bi jing tang ?, 1892), by Qixiashanren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kanshijutsu hisho nyūmon (Shindō Kishima Kanshi Kyōkai Honin, 1895), by Daishōsai Kishima (page images at HathiTrust)
• La chance, ou, La destinée (Baillière, 1876), by Pierre Foissac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeu d'amour : frant︠s︡uzskai︠a︡ gadalʹnai︠a︡ kniga XV vi︠e︡ka (Tip. V.S. Balasheva, 1886), by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bobrinskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of fate: whereby all questions may be answered respecting the present and future (Foulsham, 1887), by Raphael (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novyĭ polnyĭ orakul i charodi︠e︡ĭ, predskazyvaushchīĭ budushchee [i t.d.], tolkovatelʹ snov [i t.d.], astronomicheskīĭ teleskop [i t.d.], khiromantīi︠a︡ i fizīognomika [i t.d.] / v 4-kh chasti︠a︡kh. (Izd. Knigoprodavt︠s︡a D.I. Pri︠e︡snova, 1880), by I︠A︡. V. Bri︠u︡s and Martyn Zadeka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boekoe Tjina Kong Beeng thoo djit : akan digoenakan pada bangsa orang Tjina dan lain bangsa manoesia ... (s. n., 1903), by Pek Ling Oei (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yongning tong shu (Jin zhang tu shu ju, 1711), by Weide Wang and Charles William Wason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Han jing zhai mi shu si zhong. (Tai hua tu shu guan, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kyūsei sōjutsu jinji hyappan daizassho (Inokuchi Isaburō, 1892), by Ryokudō Maeda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gu jin tu shu ji cheng : bu shi hui kao. (s.n., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tōkyūjutsu denshūroku : chūden (Eirakudō Shoten, 1913), by Katsutarō Takeuchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shen mi yu jue shu (Zhonghua xin jiao yu she, 1921), by Ji Liu and Shuo Dongfang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grand jeu de société. Pratiques secrètes de Mlle. Le Normand ... (Chez l'éditeur, 1845), by Madame Bréteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The oracles of Shakespeare: with a selection of aphorisms (Saxton, 1845), by William Shakespeare and R. W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oráculo de Napoleón. (Saturnino Calleja, in the 1870s), by H. Kirchenhoffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tea-cup reading : and the art of fortune-telling by tea-leaves (G. Sully and company, 1921), by A. Highlandseer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goralot (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Goralot] (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fortune telling by cards : a common sense method arranged for ready reference (Laird & Lee, inc., 1928), by Margot Lemyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manteion (Athena publishers, 1943), by Stephen Gargilis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fortune telling and character reading (Grosset & Dunlap, 1923), by Gabrielle Rosiere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liu ren zhi zhi ([publisher not identified], 1662), by Feng Li (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prakticheskoe rukovodstvo k uznavanīi︠u︡ chelovi︠e︡cheskoĭ sudʹby ... (Kharʹkov, 1887), by A. I. Litvinov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tōkyū-jutsu himitsu okudan = [Initiation into the art of fortunetelling on the basis of astrology] / by Yōshin-dō Shujin, [and Nishi Senryū]. (Kyūkōkaku Shoten, 1909), by Senryū Nishi and pseud Yōshin-dō Shujin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le cosse passate, presente e aduenire. ([Henricus de Colonia], 1482), by Alkardianus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fortune-telling in America today : A study of advertisements. ([Boston ; New York, 1895), by Henry Carrington Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tōbō Saku hiden okibumi. (Kazandō, 1839), by Shuo Dongfang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le grande livre de destin : Répertoire général des sciences occultes d'aprés Albert-le-Grand, N. Flamel, Paracelse, Rober Bacon, Corneille, Agrippa, le Pape Jean XXII, Ch. Fourier, Eteilla, Madame Lénormand, Gall, Lavater, tec. ... (Lavigne, 1850), by A.-Frédéric de La Grange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divinatory miscellany : manuscript. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 19th century), by Yaʻaḳov Shalish, of Fulda Jacob ben Mordecai, Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The interpretation of dreams and moles, with other curious matters, relating to love and courtship (Gutenberg ebook)
• Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller: Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers., by Felix Fontaine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shakspeare's Mental Photographs, by William Shakespeare (Gutenberg ebook)
• Everybody's Book of Luck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fortunes and Dreams: A practical manual of fortune telling, divination and the interpretation of dreams, signs and omens, by Astra Cielo (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Seaside Sibyl; Or Leaves of Destiny: A Fortune Teller in Verse (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gipsy Fortune Teller: Containing: Judgment for the 29 Days of the Moon, the Signification of Moles, and the Art of Telling Fortunes by Dice, Dominoes, &c., &c., by W. Parker (Gutenberg ebook)
• How to tell fortunes : containing Napoleon's Oraculum and the key to work it; also tells fortunes by cards, lucky and unlucky days, signs and omens., by Aaron A. Warford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room, ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Telling Fortunes by Cards: A Symposium of the Several Ancient and Modern Methods as Practiced by Arab Seers and Sibyls and the Romany Gypsies, by Mohammed Ali, ed. by Carleton B. Case (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cupology: How to Be Entertaining, by Clara (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poor Robins prophesies and divertisements ([London?] : H.B., 1677), by Poor Robin and William Winstanley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true fortune-teller, or, Guide to knowledge: Discovering the whole art of chiromancy, physiognomy, metoposcopy, and astrology. Containing 1. A discription of the planets, their power and influence over the bodies of men, women, and children. 2. Of the several lines, ... characters in the hand and wrist; ... 3. Of physiognomy. ... 4. Observations on the eyes, ... 5. Metoposcopy, or the signification of the lines in the face. 6. of moles, and their signification. 7. Of dreams and interpretations. 8. Of nativities, ... 9. If the rod ... 10. Of marriages, ... 11. Rules to know the dangers of death. 12. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, ... 13. Of Pythagoras his wheel of fortune. 14. Of the good and bad days of each month relating to health. (London : printed for E. Tracy, at the Three-Bibles on London-Bridge, 1698), by J. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A groats worth of wit for a penny, or, The interpretation of dreams ... by Mr. Lilly. ([London] : Printed for W.T. and sold by Ionah Deacon ..., [1670?]), by William Lilly (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Merry-conceited fortune-teller prognosticating to all trades and professions their good and bad fortune : calculated according to art for the meridian of England but may serve for all four parts east, west, north and south from the beginning of the world to the end thereof. (London : Printed for John Andrews, 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The book of knowledge: treating of the wisdom of the ancients. : In four parts. I. Shewing the various and wonderful operation of the signs and planets, and other celestial constellations, on the bodies of men, &c. II. Prognostications for ever necessary to keep the body in health; with several choice receipts in physic and surgery. III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmistry, together with the signification of moles and the interpretation of dreams, &c. IV. The farmer's calendar, containing, 1st. Perpetual prognostications for weather. 2d. The whole mystery of husbandry. 3d. The complete and experienced farrier and cowleech., &c. / Written by Erra Pater, a Jew doctor in astronomy and physic, born in Bethany, near Mount Olivet in Judea. ; Made English by W. Lilly, student in physic and astrology. ; To which is added, the true form of all sorts of bills, bonds, counter-bonds, indentures, letters of attorney and licence, deeds of gift, bills of exchange, &c. (Worcester [Mass.], : Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Sold wholesale and retail at his bookstore., [1796]), by Erra Pater, trans. by William Lilly, illust. by Isaiah Thomas (HTML at Evans TCP)

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