This page provides free downloads of historical Etteilla decks, the complete 78-card sets for the Etteilla I, Etteilla II, and Etteilla IIIs, as the tarot community has come to affectionately call them. Downloads are provided in JPG format, grouped in ZIP archives per deck.
The historical Etteillas downloadable here are in the public domain and I claim no copyrights or proprietary rights of any kind over them, so please feel free to use at will. These digital files are suitable for study, printing, and personal or commercial projects. Use them, adapt them, print them, remix them as you see fit.
Etteilla I
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Le Grand Etteilla: Livre De Thot (circa 1789) Tarot Deck Image Files Download
Livre de Thot (Book of Thoth), circa 1789, engraved by Pierre-François Basan. Paris, France. Brush-colored cards.
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Livre de Thoth, Pierre-François Basan engravings (1723 – 1789)
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Grand Etteilla ou Tarot Egyptiens (circa 1872 – 1890) Tarot Deck Image Files Download
Published by Lequart et Mignot (1872 – 1890), later acquired by B. P. Grimaud. Cartes A Jouer, H. Pussey, 20, Rue de la Banque, Paris. Hand-colored etchings on pasteboard, 66 mm x 119 mm.
Etteilla II
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Le Grand Etteilla: Livre De Thot (1838 – 1890) Tarot Deck Image Files Download
Le Grand Etteilla: Jeu Des 78 Tarot Égyptiens – Livre De Thot by Simon François Bloquel (aka Z Lismon), Jean Henri Pussey letterpress (1890). Hand-colored lithograph letterpress playing cards on pasteboard, 78 mm x 127 mm.
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Le Grand Etteilla: Livre De Thot (1838), from the Orsini text, Tarot Deck Image Files Download
Le Grand Etteilla, Simon François Bloquel (aka Z Lismon) card images from the Julia Orsini book, Le Grand Etteilla, ou l’Art de tirer les cartes (1838).
Etteilla III
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Grande Jeu de l’Oracle des Dames (circa 1865) Tarot Deck Image Files Download
Grand Jeu de l’Oracle des Dames (1865) designed by G. Regamey Delarue, printed by Haugard-Mauge, published by M. F. Chromolithograph printed on pasteboard, 64 mm x 128 mm.
The full deck set isn’t of the highest resolution quality. The below zip file folder are to the same deck, higher resolution quality, but Majors only:
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Grande Jeu de L’Oracles des Dames (1865) Majors Only
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Le Grand Etteilla: Tarot Egyptiens, also Tarot of the Princesses (circa 1850 – 1875) Tarot Deck Image Files Download
Egyptian fantasy tarot deck with Italian suits, known as the Grand Etteilla (1850 – 1875), also known as the Tarot Egyptiens and as the Tarot of Princesses.
The Corpus Hermeticum/Divine Pymander: Text Download
I’m currently reconstructing an Etteilla tarot deck, and as part of my process, I’m deep-diving into the Divine Pymander (one version of the Corpus Hermeticum) because Etteilla was reportedly obsessed with the Pymander and gave that text a great deal of sacred authority. And so to do a proper Etteilla deck, I thought I had better get myself familiarized with this text that he personally placed so much importance on. So I compiled the 1650 Everard translation of the Divine Pymander and the 1906 Mead translation of the Corpus Hermeticum tractates together into a book for convenient referencing. If you would like a PDF of this compilation, here you go.
Histoire ancienne. Jeux de cartes instructives (1809 – 1821). Engravings by Pierre-François Godard.
Ten of these historical figure engravings from the Histoire ancienne deck are featured on the lower third of the Swords pips in the Etteilla II.
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