The divining rod
virgula divina : baculus divinatorius : water-witching
Also known as The divining rod: virgula divina-baculus divinatorius (water-witching)
by Charles Latimer & Harry Houdini Collection DLC
- 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 Divination and oracles.
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Dowsing”. Retained metadata contains “Dowsing” in the subject metadata.
- “Dowsing”· via Internet Archive
- “Dowsing”· via Open Library
- “Dowsing”· in subject
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Editions
One edition cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
virgula divina : baculus divinatorius : water-witching Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1876 | Cleveland, O. : Fairbanks, Benedict & Co.; Cleveland, O., Fairbanks, Benedict & Co.; Fairbanks, Benedict & Co. | English | — | Public |
Subjects
Identifiers & provenance
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Identifiers
- Open Library work
Cataloged from
- Internet Archivecu31924031429636 (opens in a new tab)
- Internet Archivediviningrodvirgu00lati (opens in a new tab)
- Open LibraryOL12013927W (opens in a new tab)
Cataloging notes
- Contributing institution: Cornell University Library
- Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
- 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
- Scanner: Kirtas APT 2400
- Scanner: scribe10.capitolhill.archive.org
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL12013927W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
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