Philosophie des hautes sciences

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NOTICE.

Etteilla, or the Art of Reading French Cards, third complete edition, 3 livres French currency of the period.
The Deck of Cards, 1 livre 10 sols.
Available at the same Booksellers, and at the Author’s home.

The Author takes 3 livres for a lesson taken at his home, whether theoretical or practical, on the Hautes Sciences High Sciences. It is therefore by means of this price that one should never be stopped from questioning him.

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THERY DE VAUCRESSON, ESQUIRE,

Former Bodyguard of the late His Majesty the King of Poland, Pensioned Captain of the Royal Hospital for Invalids, First Lieutenant of the Guards of the Lords of Parliament, etc. etc.

SIR AND FRIEND,

IF that respectable virtue, FRIENDSHIP, which has bound us intimately together for fifteen years, listening only to its zeal, ordered me to offer you the fruit of my Studies, on the other hand, PRUDENCE, Mother of Friendship, represented to me that there were men unjust enough to make you responsible for my assertions regarding the ancient Peoples, and principally regarding the High Sciences to which I maintain they were devoted. This alternative, offered by the Chil-