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Libra Esoterica

The Occult World

by Alfred Percy Sinnett & Harry Houdini Collection

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Also available in digital form. LAC aaa 2018-11-29 update (1 card)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism and Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought.

  • Occultism and esotericism

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

    • “Occultism”· via Internet Archive
    • “occultism”· via Library of Congress
    • “Occult sciences”· via Open Library
    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “occultism”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “occult”· in title
  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, and wikisource matched “Theosophy”. Retained metadata contains “Theosophy” in the subject metadata.

    • “Theosophy”· via Internet Archive
    • “Theosophy”· via Open Library
    • “Theosophy”· via English Wikisource
    • “Theosophy”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 44 editions; 5 cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1895-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1885-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press; Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; Boston, Houghton, MifflinEnglish—Public digitized item

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1883-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Trübner & Co.English—Public digitized item

Subjects

8 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Identifiers

Wikisource
  • 51124
Library of Congress
  • 27021716

Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Harold B. Lee Library
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Brigham Young University
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • 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: americana; medicalheritagelibrary; usnationallibraryofmedicine
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Open Library reports 44 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe2.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe3.euston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe3.provo.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe9.capitolhill.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe9.la.archive.org
  • 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
  • Wikidata instance type: literary work
  • Wikidata item description: book
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL6911263W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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