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Second sight explained

a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight

Also known as Second sight explained; a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight

by Frederick Wicks & Washington Irving Bishop

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda, internet-archive, library-of-congress, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Clairvoyance”, “clairvoyance”, “Precognition”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Second sight” in the title, “Clairvoyance” in the subtitle, “Second sight” in the subtitle, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Clairvoyance”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Precognition”· via Internet Archive
    • “clairvoyance”· via Library of Congress
    • “Precognition”· via Open Library
    • “Second sight”· via Open Library
    • “Second sight”· in title

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Editions

3 editions cataloged here.

a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight, as exhibited by the late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller : showing how the supposed phenomena may be produced

University of Pennsylvania digitized edition

78 pages ; 19 cm; Written by Frederick Wicks, who used Bishop's name by arrangement. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

1880John Menzies & CoEnglish—Public download

a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight, as exhibited by the late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller : showing how the supposed phenomena may be produced

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1880Edinburgh ; Glasgow : John Menzies & Co.; John MenziesEnglish—Public

a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1880[New York?]English—Public

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • 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.
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9926397033503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, 293 B542
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
  • Scanner: scribe10.boston.archive.org
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