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Libra Esoterica

A compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft

by Richard Boulton

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

24 unnumbered pages, 272; 4 unnumbered pages, 235 pages, 1 unnumbered page : (12mo) Authorship attributed in Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), I, 393 Signatures: A-M12 N4 (B3 signed B5); [A]2 B-K12 L6 M⁴

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “magick” in the title, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and “magick” in the edition title.

    • Magic· via Internet Archive
    • Magic· via Open Library
    • magick· in title
    • Magic· in subject
    • magick· in edition title
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and “Witchcraft” in the edition title.

    • Witchcraft· via Internet Archive
    • Witchcraft· via Open Library
    • Witchcraft· in title
    • Witchcraft· in subject
    • Witchcraft· in edition title

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Editions

Open Library reports 2 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1715London : Printed for E. Curll ... J. Pemberton ... and W. Taylor ...; Printed for E. Curll ... J. Pemberton ... and W. Taylor ...EnglishPublic

Subjects

4 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe3.euston.archive.org
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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openlibrary-work:OL11356242W
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