Planchette
or, The despair of science : being a full account of modern spiritualism, its phenomena, and the various theories regarding it: with a survey of French spiritism
Also known as Planchette or, The despair of science; Planchette, or, The despair of science
by Epes Sargent, Making of America Project & Harry Houdini Collection DLC
- First published:
- 19th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Primary source
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Preface signed: E. S "Replaces copy given by the Estate of H.W. Dutton, Nov. 1987."--Note on verso of half-title Binder's ticket: University Bindery Welch & Co Transferred from Research Library: 7607.28
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Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subtitle, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and “Spiritualism” in the edition subtitle.
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Editions
3 editions cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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Planchette or, The despair of science Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z | Boston, Roberts Brothers | English | — | Public digitized item | |
Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z | Boston, Roberts brothers | English | — | Public digitized item | |
or, The despair of science : being a full account of modern spiritualism, its phenomena, and the various theories regarding it: with a survey of French spiritism Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z | Boston : Roberts Brothers | English | — | Public digitized item |
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- Open Library work
- Internet Archive
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- Internet Archiveplanchette00sarg (opens in a new tab)
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- Open LibraryOL15851339W (opens in a new tab)
- Open LibraryOL15909737W (opens in a new tab)
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Cataloging notes
- Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
- Contributing institution: Harvard University
- Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
- Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
- Contributing institution: unknown library
- Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
- Digitization sponsor: Google
- Digitization sponsor: MSN
- Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
- 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
- Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Scanner: google
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- Scanner: scribe10.boston.archive.org
- Scanner: scribe11.capitolhill.archive.org
- Scanner: scribe2.boston.archive.org
- Scanner: scribe2.capitolhill.archive.org
- Scanner: scribe8.capitolhill.archive.org
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL15744725W
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