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Spectropia, or, Surprising spectral illusions

showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour : with sixteen illustrations

by John Filmer & publisher James G. Gregory

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

"John Filmer, engraver and printer"--T.p. verso

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the subtitle, “Ghosts” in the subject metadata, and “Ghosts” in the edition subtitle.

    • Ghosts· via Internet Archive
    • Ghosts· in subtitle
    • Ghosts· in subject
    • Ghosts· in edition subtitle

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Editions

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showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour : with sixteen illustrations

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1864-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : Published by James G. Gregory, no. 540 BroadwayEnglishPublic digitized item

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical 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: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Scanner: KIRTAS APT 2400
Catalog id
internet-archive:39002002968692.med.yale.edu
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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