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• Fortune-Telling by Cards (New York: R. P. Fenno and Company, ca. 1920), by P. R. S. Foli (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The square of sevens ; an authoritative system of cartomancy, (New York, Harper & Bros., 1897), by Robert Antrobus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les cartes à jouer et la cartomancie / ([Bologna] : A. Forni, 1980), by Paul Boiteau d'Ambly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Souvenirs de la Belgique, cent jours d'infortunes; ou, Le procès mémorable. Avec des notes historiques et politiques, etc. (Paris, chez l'auteur, 1822), by M. A. Le Normand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prophetical, educational, and playing cards / (London : Hurst & Blackett, 1912), by John King Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le ingeniose sorti / (In Venetia : Per Fra[n]cesco Marcolino da Forli, ne glianni del Signore 1550 del mese di luglio), by Francesco Marcolini, approximately 1488-1576 Titian, Francesco Salviati, Giuseppe Porta, and Lodovico Dolce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, by L. W. De Laurence, illust. by Pamela Colman Smith (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)
• The Square of Sevens: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note, by Edward Prime-Stevenson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards, by John King Van Rensselaer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Absolute Key to Occult Science: The Tarot of the Bohemians, The Most Ancient Book in the World; For the Exclusive Use of Initiates (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892), by Papus, trans. by A. P. Morton
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot, by Paul Foster Case (PDF at innerjourneybooks.com)
• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by Arthur Edward Waite (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers, by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by A. L. Pogossky (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Tarot: Its Occult Significance, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc., by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
  • PDF at innerjourneybooks.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Egyptian Revival: or, The Evercoming Son in the Light of the Tarot, by Frater Achad (HTML at hermetic.com)
• The illustrated key to the tarot : the veil of divination / L. W. de Laurence. (Chicago, IL : de Laurence, Scott & Co., 1916), by L. W. De Laurence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The symbolism of the Tarot; philosophy of occultism in pictures and numbers; pen-pictures of the twenty two Tarot cards; (St. Petersburg, 1913), by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by A. L. Pogossky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The song of Sano Tarot, (New York : Macoy Pub. Co., 1946), by Nancy Fullwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A brief analysis of the Tarot. (Buffalo, Ellicott Press, 1927), by Paul Foster Case (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The illustrated key to the tarot, the veil of divination, illustrating the greater and lesser arcana, embracing: the veil and its symbols. Secret tradition under the veil of divination. Art of tarot divination. Outer method of the oracles. The tarot in history. Inner symbolism. The greater keys. (Chicago : De Laurence, [1942?]), by L. W. De Laurence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Clef absolue de la science occulte : le tarot des Bohémiens : le plus ancien livre du monde : à l'usage exclusif des initiés / (Paris : G. Carré, 1889), by Papus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le ingeniose sorti / (In Venetia : Per Fra[n]cesco Marcolino da Forli, ne glianni del Signore 1550 del mese di luglio), by Francesco Marcolini, approximately 1488-1576 Titian, Francesco Salviati, Giuseppe Porta, and Lodovico Dolce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, by L. W. De Laurence, illust. by Pamela Colman Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Fifty New Card Tricks: A Comprehensive Description of the Continuous Front and Back Hand Palm With Cards and the Sensational New Rising Card Trick; Also Many New and Unpublished Tricks With Cards (New York: Wehman Bros., ca. 1900), by Howard Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Howard Thurston's Card Tricks: Being a Fin de Siècle Manual on the Art of Conjuring With Cards, Including, Among Many Hitherto Unpublished Novel and Unique Experiments, a Comprehensive Description of the Continuous Front and Back-Hand Palm With Cards, and the Sensational New Rising Card Trick (Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenheimer, c1903), by Howard Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Era Card Tricks (London: W. and F. Hamley, c1897), by August Roterberg, illust. by L. R. Gossett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card Mysteries and Spirit Tricks Made Public for the First Time, with Directions for Constructing Trick Cards (Brooklyn, NY: Master Technic Pub. Co., c1911), by Burling Hull
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by S. W. Erdnase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card cheats--how they operate; a play-by-play exposé of the tricks of the card sharp's trade. (New York, William-Frederick Press, 1950), by Floyd Moss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The burglar / (Chicago : Magic Products Co., 1921), by Arthur Herbert Buckley, Gus Moford, and Harlan Tarbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The triple climax / (Chicago : Magic Products Co., 1921), by Arthur Herbert Buckley, Gus Moford, and Harlan Tarbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern card effects and how to perform them; a book of interest to the amateur and the professional, continuing the cream of practical card effects, together with some pet effects of the authors. ([Chicago] A. P. Felsman, [c1920]), by Geo. De Lawrence and James C. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prestidigitation moderne; recueil de tours de physique amusante; (Paris, Delarue, [1877]), by L. P. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau manuel de prestidigitation et de magie blanche, traité complet de tours de cartes à l'usage des gens du monde. (Paris, L. Mulo, 1912), by Roger Barbaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wunder der kartenkunst; fortsetzung des prachtwerkes Der vollendete kartenkünstler, (Berlin, Horster, [1920]), by Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Horster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sealed mysteries : explaining the latest card mysteries and spirit tricks made public for the first time, with directions for constructing trick cards / ([New York] : Master Technic Pub., [c1911]), by Burling Hull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der wohlbewanderte kartenkünstler, oder, Anleitung zu mehr als hundert überraschenden kartenkunststücken / (Weimar : B.F. Voigt, 1872), by L. von Alvensleben (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carlo Bosco's Zauber-Kabinet, oder, Das Ganze der Taschenspielerkunst, enthaltend: 154 Wunder erregende Kunststücke, aus der natürlichen Magie mit Karten, Würfeln, Kugeln ... nebst 46 Kunststücken mit Spielkarten, ferner 13 der interessantesten arithmetischen Belustigungen. (Quedlinburg [etc.] Ernst, 1870), by Carlo Bosco and Kerndörffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gambler's tricks with cards, exposed and explained / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1859), by J. H. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Si Stebbins offers men-telo-card-ology for your approval and entertainment. ([Jamestown, N.Y., F.E. Hause, c1939]), by Si Stebbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hanky panky : a book of conjuring tricks / (London : J.C. Hotten, [1872?]), by Henry Llewellyn Williams, W. H. Cremer, and Wiljalba Frikell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Amateurzauberer : eine Sammlung auserlesener, überraschender Zauberkunststücke mit Münzen, Karten und anderen Gegenständen, zur Darstellung in privaten Kreisen / (Stuttgart : Schwabacher'sche Verlagsbuchh., [1900]), by H. F. C. Suhr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moderne Magie / (Bern : Neukomm & zimmermann, [191-?]), by Fritz A. Hügli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Magisches Allerei / (Berlin : Horsterscher Verlag, [1905]), by F. W. Conradi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dʹemonstrations mystʹerieuses / (Berlin : Horsterscher Verlag, [1905]), by F. W. Conradi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated, by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards. (London, Printed for L. Davis, 1787), by W. Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der vollendete kartenkünstler / (Berlin : Verlag der "Lustigen blätter" (Dr. Eysler & co.) g.m.b.h., 1920), by Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Horster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carlo Bosco's tooverkabinet. Onder anderen bevattende 154 verrassende kunststukken uit de natuurlijke tooverkunst, met kaarten, kogels, geldstukken, ringen, enz., benevens 46 kunststukken met speelkaarten, en 13 der onderhoudendste rekenkunstige raadsels. Met 24 afbeeldingen. (Tiel, H.C.A. Campagne & Zoon, [1884]), by Carlo Bosco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les mille récréations de société, contenant la description de tous les tours intéressans de gobelets et de cartes, et généralement tout ce qui est relatif à l'escamotage; des récréations de mécanique, d'optique, de chimie, d'hydraulique, etc., etc.; (Bruxelles [etc.] A. Wahlen, 1830), by J.-L. Hanin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gale's cabinet of knowledge; or, Miscellaneous recreations: containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility: with a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments; including the most celebrated card deceptions; together with about seven hundred serious, comic, and humorous queries, paradoxes, &c. with pertinent and ingenious answers; comprizing the essence of the Lady's, Gentleman's, and Carnan's Diaries: Ozanam and Hooper's Recreations; Martin's Philosophical magazines, &c. Illustrated with copperplate engravings. To which are added, a great number of originals. Likewise an appendix; containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings; with some curious definitions in optics. (London, Printed for Cuthell and Martin [etc.], 1808), by John Gale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card fan productions. (Chicago, L.L. Ireland, 1941), by Edward Marlo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New era card tricks / (London : W. & F. Hamley, 1897), by A. Roterberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern card manipulation / (London : C. Arthur Pearson, 1915), by C. Lang Neil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Endless Amusement: A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. (Gutenberg ebook)

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