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Libra Esoterica

Spiritualism tested, or, The facts of its history classified, and their cause in nature verified

from ancient and modern testimonies

by Harry Houdini Collection DLC & George Whitefield Samson

  • 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. Originally published in 1852 under title: "To daimonion", or, The spiritual medium. The present ed. contains an additional chapter. Republished in 1869 as Physical media in spiritual manifestations

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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 title, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and “Spiritualism” in the edition title.

    • Spiritualism· via Internet Archive
    • Spiritualism· via Open Library
    • Spiritualism· in title
    • Spiritualism· in subject
    • Spiritualism· in edition title

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from ancient and modern testimonies

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1860-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Gould and Lincoln ; New York : Sheldon and Co. ; Cincinnati : George S. BlanchardEnglishPublic digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • 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.
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: scribe11.capitolhill.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL15675161W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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