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The certainty of the worlds of spirits, and consequently, of the immortality of souls. of the malice and misery of the devils, and the damned. And of the blessedness of the justified

fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices, &c. ...

by Richard Baxter, Colonel Henry Hamlyn Fane & David Laing Philips

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Spine title: Worlds of spirits First edition Page 86 numbered 68 Wing Ex libris (armorial): Colonel Henry Hamlyn Fane; (bookplate): David Laing Philips

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata.

    • Witchcraft· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata.

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

    • Apparitions· via Internet Archive
    • Apparitions· via Open Library
    • Apparitions· in subtitle
    • Apparitions· in subject
    • Apparitions· in edition subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 2 editions; 1 cataloged here.

fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices, &c. ...

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1691London, : Printed for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside; and J. Salusbury at the Rising Sun near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill; Printed for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside; and J. Salusbury at the Rising Sun near the Royal Exchange in CornhillEnglishPublic digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe10.boston.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL15739454W
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