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The history of magic

to which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparations, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning and spirit-rapping

Also known as Ennemoser's history of magic; Geschichte der Magie; Geschichte der Magie. English

by Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Howitt, Northrop. Marginalia Frye, William Howitt & Harry Houdini Collection

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, German
  • Content type: Primary source

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 2 volumes ; 19 cm Includes index Includes bibliographical references and index

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard, internet-archive, and openlibrary-historical matched “occultism” and “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

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  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the alternative title, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • Magic· in title
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    • Magic· in subject
    • Magic· in edition title

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to which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparations, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning and spirit-rapping

Open Library record

1893George Bell & SonsEnglishNo ebook

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

2 volumes ; 19 cm

1854H.G. Bohn; Henry G. Bohn; London : H.G. Bohn; London : Henry G. BohnEnglish, GermanPublic

History of Magic

2020HardPressEnglish
  • 9780461872194
  • 0461872196
No ebook

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Harvard
  • 990022329080203941

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: PIMS - University of Toronto
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome 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
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 7 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 8 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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  • Scanner: scribe11.toronto.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe14.toronto.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribetteu9
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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