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Libra Esoterica

The spirit-rapper

an autobiography

by Orestes Augustus Brownson & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionPrimary source
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "... It is not a novel; it is not a romance; it is not a biography of a real individual; it is not a dissertation, an essay, or a regular treatise; and yet it perhaps has some elements of them all ...": pref

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Occultism and esotericism, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Occultism and esotericism

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

    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “occult”· in subject
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • 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
  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-historical matched “Animal magnetism” and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Animal magnetism” in the subject metadata and “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Animal magnetism”· via Open Library
    • “Mesmerism”· via Open Library
    • “Animal magnetism”· in subject
    • “Mesmerism”· in subject
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.

    • “Animism”· via Open Library

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Editions

Open Library reports 6 editions; 1 cataloged here.

an autobiography.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

18541854.; Boston : Little, Brown and Co. ; London : Charles Dolman; Little, BrownEnglish—Public

Subjects

10 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • 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 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: scribe3.capitolhill.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL94092W
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