Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

The Universal Fortune Teller: Being Sure and Certain Directions for Discovering the Secrets of Futurity

being sure and certain directions for discovering the secrets of futurity

Also known as The Universal fortune teller

by William Samuel Fortey

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

Description

Description from Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)

[12] p. : ill. ; 19 x 11 cm. Undated. Date from publisher's years of activity at address, cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 68 Cover title Illustration of cover First sentence: "To pour out the Tea or Coffee Grounds - Pour the grounds of tea of coffee into a white cup, shake them well about in it so that their particles may cover the surface of the whole cup; then reverse it into the saucer, that all the superfluous parts may be drained, and the figures required for fortune-telling be formed." Includes 1 woodcut Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: Green pictorial wrappers

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles.

  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and online-books-page matched “Fortune-telling”. Retained metadata contains “Fortune-telling” in the description and “Fortune-telling” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fortune-telling”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fortune-telling”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Fortune-telling”· in description
    • “Fortune-telling”· 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.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

being sure and certain directions for discovering the secrets of futurity

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

London: W.S. Fortey, ca. 1870

1870London : W.S. Fortey, 2 and 3 Monmouth Court, BloomsburyEnglish—Source listed online copy

Subjects

8 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

Internet Archive
Online books page
  • olbp75886

Cataloged from

Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: McGill University 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: toronto
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: London: W.S. Fortey, ca. 1870
Catalog id
online-books-page:olbp75886
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved