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Libra Esoterica

An essay on capacity and genius; to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind; and that no genius ... is innate, but solely produced by and dependent on circumstances. Also, an enquiry into the nature of ghosts. And other appearances supposed to be supernatural

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Half-title: On capacity and genius, and the nature of ghosts By J. Hancock, or William Andrew Mitchell, of Newcastle-on-Tyne?--Halkett & Laing

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

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the title and “supernatural” in the edition title.

    • “supernatural”· in title
    • “supernatural”· in edition title
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and wellcome matched “Ghosts” and “ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the title, “Ghosts” in the description, “Ghosts” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Ghosts”· via Internet Archive
    • “ghosts”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Ghosts”· in title
    • “Ghosts”· in description
    • “Ghosts”· in subject
    • “Ghosts”· in edition title

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1820-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : W. Simpkin and R. MarshallEnglish—Public digitized item

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

1 unnumbered leaf, 537 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; (8vo)

[1820?]W. Simpkin and R. MarshallEnglish—Public digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • 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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