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The spirit rappings, mesmerism, clairvoyance, visions, revelations, startling phenomena, and infidelity of the rapping fraternity calmly considered, and exposed

by James Porter, Harry Houdini Collection DLC & Harry Houdini Collection

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Preface dated: Feb. 16, 1853. Also available in digital form. LAC aaa 2018-10-03 update LAC ecr 2018-10-09 review (1 card)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, and Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • 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
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from library-of-congress matched “clairvoyance”. Retained metadata contains “Clairvoyance” in the title and “Clairvoyance” in the edition title.

    • “clairvoyance”· via Library of Congress
    • “Clairvoyance”· in title
    • “Clairvoyance”· in edition title
  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from library-of-congress matched “mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the title and “Mesmerism” in the edition title.

    • “mesmerism”· via Library of Congress
    • “Mesmerism”· in title
    • “Mesmerism”· in edition title

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Editions

Open Library reports 2 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1853Boston : James P. Magee; James P. MageeEnglish—Public

Subjects

2 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • 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 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe11.capitolhill.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL3715291W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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