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Witchcraft, or, Th art of fortune-telling unveiled

from the low ambition of the celebrated mary Pitcher, to the more elevated, but equally vague pretensions of the injudicious astrologer : delinieated in a series of letters .. together with poetick compositions on different subjects

Also known as Witchcraft: or The art of fortune-telling unveiled: from the low ambition of the celebrated Mary Pitcher, to the more elevated, but equally vague pretensions of the injudicious astrologer

by William Frederick Pinchbeck

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Frontispiece mounted on inner side of cover Shaw/Shoemaker

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the alternative title, and “Witchcraft” in the edition title.

    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in alternative title
    • “Witchcraft”· in edition title
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Fortune-telling”. Retained metadata contains “Fortune-telling” in the title, “Fortune-telling” in the alternative title, “Fortune-telling” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fortune-telling”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fortune-telling”· via Open Library
    • “Fortune-telling”· in title
    • “Fortune-telling”· in alternative title
    • “Fortune-telling”· in subject
    • “Fortune-telling”· in edition title

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Editions

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from the low ambition of the celebrated mary Pitcher, to the more elevated, but equally vague pretensions of the injudicious astrologer : delinieated in a series of letters .. together with poetick compositions on different subjects

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1805Boston : Printed for the author; Printed for the authorEnglish—Public

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public 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: americana
  • Scanner: scribe5.boston.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL11133170W
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