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Libra Esoterica

An essay on apparitions

in which their appearance is accounted for by causes wholly independent of preternatural agency

by John Alderson & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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53 pages ; (8vo) First published in Edinburgh medical and chirurgical journal, 1810. Reprinted with 4th ed. of his Essay on the Rhus toxicodendron, 18ll. Cf. p. viii

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

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

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  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

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

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    • “Apparitions”· via Open Library
    • “apparitions”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Apparitions”· in title
    • “Apparitions”· in subject
    • “Apparitions”· in edition title

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in which their appearance is accounted for by causes wholly independent of preternatural agency

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53 pages ; (8vo)

1823London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and GreenEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • 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: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
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  • 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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