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The occult sciences

sketches of the traditions and superstitions of past times, and the marvels of the present day.

by Edward Smedley, Elihu Rich, William Cooke Taylor & Henry Thompson

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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376 p. ; 19 cm

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the title, “Occult sciences” in the title, “Occultism” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Occultism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “occult”· in title
    • “Occult sciences”· in title
    • “Occultism”· in subject
    • “occult”· in edition title
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

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

    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject

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Editions

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sketches of the traditions and superstitions of past times, and the marvels of the present day.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1855London ; Glasgow : R. Griffin and company; London and Glasgow : R. Griffin and company; R. Griffin and companyEnglish—Public

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: Internet Archive
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
  • 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; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Scanner: scribe2.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: station26.cebu.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL7709890W
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Multi source partial
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