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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
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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

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • 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.

    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· in subtitle
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
    • “Spiritualism”· in edition subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 3 editions; 2 cataloged here.

Planchette or, The despair of science

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1869-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Roberts Brothers; Boston, Roberts BrothersEnglish—Public digitized item

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1887-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston, Roberts brothersEnglish—Public digitized item

Subjects

2 subject headings

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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
  • Scanner: rich4
  • 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
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openlibrary-work:OL15744725W
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