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Libra Esoterica

The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism

by Epes Sargent & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

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

Also available in digital form.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, library-of-congress, openalex, and openlibrary-historical matched “Spiritualism” and “spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the title, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and “Spiritualism” in the edition title.

    • Spiritualism· via Internet Archive
    • spiritualism· via Library of Congress
    • spiritualism· via OpenAlex
    • Spiritualism· via Open Library
    • Spiritualism· in title
    • Spiritualism· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 6 editions; 3 cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1881-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Colby and Rich; Boston, Colby and Rich, 1881 [c1880]EnglishPublic digitized item

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1891-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Banner of Light Publishing Co.EnglishPublic digitized item

OpenAlex scholarly book record

2001-10-17Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology; Medical Entomology and ZoologyEnglishUnknown

Subjects

16 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Identifiers

Library of Congress
  • 11003402

Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: University of Connecticut Libraries
  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • 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 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: scribe3.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe8.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe9.capitolhill.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL3714130W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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