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Ghost-stories; collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghosts and apparitions, and to promote a rational estimate of the nature of phenomena commonly considered as supernatural.

Title
Ghost-stories; collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghosts and apparitions, and to promote a rational estimate of the nature of phenomena commonly considered as supernatural.
Publication
London, R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1823.

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Additional Authors
Heun, Karl Gottlab Samuel, 1771-1854.
Description
xx, 292 p. 6 col. plates.; 19 cm.
Subject
  • Ghosts
  • Tobacco > Fiction
  • Snuff boxes and bottles
Note
  • The ghost of Count Walkenried (p. [218]-230) concerns the delivery of a gold snuff box.
  • Includes The Green Mantle of Venice, translated from the German of C. G. S. Heun (p. [1]-121).
  • Provenance: Sir David Lionel Salomons, bart. (bookplate).
Call Number
Arents S 0975
OCLC
NYPG754248815-B
Title
Ghost-stories; collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghosts and apparitions, and to promote a rational estimate of the nature of phenomena commonly considered as supernatural.
Imprint
London, R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1823.
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Added Author
Heun, Karl Gottlab Samuel, 1771-1854. Green mantle of Venice.
Research Call Number
Arents S 0975
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