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The occult sciences

The philosophy of magic, prodigies and apparent miracles

Also known as Des sciences occultes; Des sciences occultes ou, Essai sur la magie, les prodices et les miracles; The occult sciences. The philosophy of magic, prodigies, and apparent miracles

by Eusèbe Salverte, Anthony Todd Thomson, former owner. DLC Brooklyn Public Library & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French, NOT
  • Content type: Primary source
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xvi, 532 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references "Discours de M. François Arago," at the tomb of Salverte, Oct. 30, 1839, p. xi-xvi Note A: "Des Dragons et des serpens monstrueux qui figurent dans un grand nombre de récits fabuleux ou historiques," p. 471-505 Note B: "De la statue de Memnon," p. 507-525

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology, Occultism and esotericism, Parapsychology and psychical research, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • 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, “occult” in the alternative title, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Occultism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “occult”· in title
    • “Occult sciences”· in title
    • “occult”· in alternative title
    • “Occult sciences”· in alternative title
  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library, internet-archive, and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”, “Magie”, and “Zauberei”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the alternative title, “Magie” in the alternative title, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Magie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
    • “Zauberei”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “Magic”· in subtitle
    • “Magic”· in alternative title
  • Astrology

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Astrologie”.

    • “Astrologie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Parapsychology”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Parapsychology”· via Open Library
    • “Parapsychology”· in subject
  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Weissagungen”.

    • “Weissagungen”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections

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Editions

7 editions cataloged here.

The Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies and apparent Miracles. From the French of Eusebe Salverte, with notes illustrative, explanatory and critical by Anth. Todd Thomson. In two volumes. 1

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Digitized image count: 406; Digitized image count: 406; Shelfmark: Phys.m. 249 n-1; Shelfmark: Phys.m. 249 n-2

1846London : Rich. Bentley; Rich. BentleyNOT—Public iiif reader

Des sciences occultes, ou, Essai sur la magie, les prodices et les miracles

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1843-01-01T00:00:00ZParis : J.-B. BaillièreFrench—Public digitized item

Des sciences occultes; ou, Essai sur la magie, les prodices et les miracles

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1829-01-01T00:00:00ZParis, SédillotFrench—Public digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • B3Kat identifier: BV021153871
  • B3Kat identifier: BV023287026
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: Phys.m. 249 n-1
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: Phys.m. 249 n-2
  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Contributing institution: University of California
  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Contributing institution: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Digitization license: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical 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.
  • Holding institution or provenance: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Publication place: London
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: scribe3.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe3.nj.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribetteu5
  • 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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