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Jacob's rod

a translation from the French of a rare and curious work, A.D. 1693, on the art of finding springs, mines and minerals by means of the hazel rod

by T. Welton & Thomas nb2002056756 Welton

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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A translation of: La verge de Jacob, ou L'art de trouver les tresors, les sources ... et autres choses cachées, par l'usage du bâton fourché. Par I. N. Lyon, 1693. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles.

  • Divination and oracles

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

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a translation from the French of a rare and curious work, A.D. 1693, on the art of finding springs, mines and minerals by means of the hazel rod

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1870London : Pub. by the translator, Thomas Welton; Pub. by the translator, Thomas WeltonEnglish—Public

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  • 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
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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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