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The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell

a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight; with their future contingencies of fortune. Now living in Exeter Court over-against the Savoy in the Strand ...

by Daniel Defoe, William Bond, Michael Gucht & John Wallis

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  • 18th century
  • Languages: English, German
  • Content type: FictionPrimary source
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xix, 5 unnumbered pages, 320 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : 20 cm (8vo) Authorship disputed; probably by Daniel Defoe, though ascribed also to William Bond under whose name it appeared in 1728, with new title: The supernatural philosopher; or, The mysteries of magick ... unfolded by William Bond. cf. DNB; Cambridge history of English literature, v. 9; Georges Dottin's "Daniel DeFoe et ses romans" (1924) p. 261 Includes "The method of teaching deaf and dumb persons to write, read, and understand a language" [by John Wallis.--cf. DNB]

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Occultism and esotericism

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

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  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “magick” in the description.

    • “magick”· in description
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

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

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    • “Precognition”· in subject
  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and wellcome matched “Prophecies”, “Prophecy”, and “prophecy”. Retained metadata contains “Prophecies” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Prophecy”· via Open Library
    • “prophecy”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Prophecies”· in subject

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a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight, with their future contingencies of fortune : now living in Exeter Court over-against the Savoy in the Strand

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1720-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Printed for E. Curll, and sold by W. Mears ... [and 5 others]English—Public digitized item

Open Library record

1748Printed for, and sold by James Fleming...English—Public

a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight; with their future contingencies of fortune. Now living in Exeter Court over-against the Savoy in the Strand ...

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xix, 5 unnumbered pages, 320 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait (engravings) ; 20 cm (8vo)

1720London : Printed for E. Curll: and sold by W. Mears and T. Jauncy ... [etc.]; Printed for E. Curll: and sold by W. Mears and T. Jauncy ... [etc.]English—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • 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
  • Open Library reports 7 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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  • 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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