Index and Page Notes -- 3

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      <td>VIII Cards to which Fortune Tellers attach Prognostics</td>
      <td>158</td>
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      <td>Eliphas Levi, from the Suppl. to Theosophiah for April 1884</td>
      <td>162</td>
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      <td>From the Unpublished writings of Eliphas Levi, Supplement to the Journal of the Theo. Society, Madieo. Oct. 1884</td>
      <td>168</td>
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      <td>Letter from Thos. M. Johnson, Osciola, Mo., to Abner Doubleday, Mendham, N.J., Oct. 26, 1885 [Abner Doubleday signature (?)]</td>
      <td>175</td>
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      <td>The Manner of using the Tarot by the Pyramid Form</td>
      <td>175</td>
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      <td>The Tarot as worked by the Circle</td>
      <td>179</td>
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      <td>The Taro (From The Platonist, August 1885)</td>
      <td>183</td>
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      <td>The Chinese Taro</td>
      <td>189</td>
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      <td>Taro by T. H. Burgoyne</td>
      <td>193</td>
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      <td>Introduction</td>
      <td>196</td>
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      <td>Chapter I</td>
      <td>199</td>
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      <td>Chapter II. Concerns the four aces</td>
      <td>206</td>
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      <td>Chapter III. The Method of Using the Taro</td>
      <td>212</td>
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      <td>Hand Painted Cards</td>
      <td>(sic) 210</td>
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      <td>2 of Cups (Battista, Varallo, Italy)</td>
      <td>241</td>
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      <td>The Shield of Archilles</td>
      <td>253</td>
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      <td>Forged by Vulcan Harris (?)</td>
      <td>253</td>
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Hamilton's Auction Number 77

May 2, 1974

Item No. 283. Occult: Tarot. ABNER DOUBLEDAY. Union general and military author: credit with originating and naming the game of baseball. Autograph Manuscript (unsigned), about 255 pages, small 4to, undated but probably 1870's. His original manuscript on the card game of Tarot, with emphasis on its occult elements, drawing on numerous cited sources. Includes much discussion of the Jewish "cabalistic" aspects, the work of "Rabbi Abraham," the Hebrew key, the cabalistic alphabet, and an explanation of the signs (rods, cups, swords, and Pentacles), the rod being described as, "...the phallus of the Egyptians, or the <u>lod</u> of the Hebrews..." There are mounted in (some are drawn in) the manuscript various number charts of Mars, the Sun, Mercury, the Moon, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter, an "apocalyptic key" (depicting seven seals of St. John), and a group of old hand-colored woodcuts of actual Tarot cards captioned in Italian (the game of Tarot was developed in Italy, apparently as early as the 13th century). Original leather binding broken, with covers detached and much worn, a few signatures loose, but internally in very good condition. Could be easily re-bound if desired. A fascinating reference work on Tarot, and an interesting example of the diverse interests of General Doubleday, whose handwriting in any form is uncommon.

NOTE: The manuscript appears to be signed by Doubleday on page 175.

Doubleday, Abner (1819-1893), soldier and sports figure. Born in Ballston Spa, New York, on June 26, 1819, Doubleday attended schools in Auburn and in Cooperstown, where he became known as an organizer of team ball games. After a time spent working as a surveyor he entered West Point; graduating in 1842, he was assigned to the artillery and during the Mexican War served under Gen. Zachary Taylor at Monterrey and elsewhere. During 1856-1858 he saw action against the Seminoles in Florida and later was stationed at various posts on the Atlantic coast, in 1860 being assigned to Charleston Harbor, where in April 1861 he manned the first of Fort Sumter's guns to respond to the sudden South Carolina bombardment. In May he was promoted to major and for nearly a year served with an infantry regiment in the Shenandoah Valley and around Washington, D.C. Early in 1862 he was made a brigadier general of volunteers and during the year took part in the major battles in Maryland and northern Virginia: the second battle of Bull Run (Manassas), South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. As major general he commanded a division at Gettysburg and on the death of Gen. J. F. Reynolds on the first day he succeeded to command of the 1st Corps, holding the field against heavy odds. Despite his performance he was returned to divisional command upon the appointment of a new corps commander; bitterly disappointed, he nonetheless continued to render valuable service through the second and third days of the battle. Doubleday was thereafter on duty in Washington, and in 1866 reverted to the regular-army rank of lieutenant colonel. He advanced to colonel in 1867 and

retired from the army in 1873. He settled in Mendham, New Jersey, and died there on January 26, 1893. During the late years of the nineteenth century, as baseball grew into a national sport and pastime, much interest in its origins developed; many who championed the notion of baseball as a native American game nominated Doubleday as its originator, citing his sports activities in Cooperstown and giving the year 1839 for his invention of the game. The story became widespread and in 1907 Albert G. Spalding, baseball player and sporting-goods manufacturer, set up a committee of leading figures in professional baseball to research the history of the game. In its 1908 report the committee ratified the common theory, which subsequently became firmly implanted in American lore. Later investigations showed that a game very similar to baseball, and often called by that name, had been played in America, and even in England, much before Doubleday's time. A variant of the traditional English game of rounders, it had been known in the American colonies as town-ball and by other names and resembled modern baseball much more closely than did the "one-(two, three, or four) old-cat" game cited as baseball's ancestor by the Spalding committee; old cat, a bat-and-ball game, was apparently played when there were too few players for baseball. Doubleday's name remained nonetheless connected with baseball; in 1920 the village of Cooperstown dedicated Doubleday Field as the game's birthplace and in 1939, the supposed centennial of the game's invention, the National Baseball Hall of Fame was established there.

Source: Webster's American Biographies