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Libra Esoterica

The Occult World

by Alfred Percy Sinnett & Harry Houdini Collection

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English

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

    • Theosophy· via Open Library
    • Theosophy· via English Wikisource
    • Theosophy· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 44 editions; 3 cataloged here.

Library of Congress digitized edition

1885EnglishPublic digital item

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

160, 77 pages ; 19 cm

1884Trübner & Co.EnglishPublic

English Wikisource transcription linked to Wikidata

1881EnglishPublic reader

Subjects

6 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Identifiers

Wikisource
  • 51124
Library of Congress
  • 27021716

Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 44 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Wikidata instance type: literary work
  • Wikidata item description: book
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL6911263W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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