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Second sight explained

a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight, as exhibited by the late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller : showing how the supposed phenomena may be produced

by Washington Irving Bishop & Frederick Wicks

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Traditions: Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

Subjects: Spiritualism, Clairvoyance, precognition, Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871, Heller, Robert, 1830-1878

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

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Clairvoyance”. Retained metadata contains “Second sight” in the title, “Clairvoyance” in the subtitle, “Second sight” in the subtitle, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Clairvoyance”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Second sight”· in title
    • “Clairvoyance”· in subtitle
    • “Second sight”· in subtitle
    • “Clairvoyance”· in subject
    • “Precognition”· in subject

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a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight, as exhibited by the late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller : showing how the supposed phenomena may be produced

University of Pennsylvania digitized edition

78 pages ; 19 cm; Written by Frederick Wicks, who used Bishop's name by arrangement. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

1880John Menzies & CoEnglish—Public download

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  • ark:/81431/p3kp7vc3j

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Cataloging notes

  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9926397033503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, 293 B542
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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