The Divining Hand: The 500 Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing- The Art of Searching for Water, Oil, Minerals, and Other Natural Resources or Anything Lost, Missing or Badly Needed
by Christopher Bird
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/See Description
- ISBN 10
- 0525093737
- ISBN 13
- 9780525093732
- Seller
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Cazenovia, New York, United States
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About This Item
1979 hardcover as pictured. A "complete history of the art of dowsing" throughout the world with a review of existing theories attempting to explain a scientific basis for the process. Binding is intact. Owner's name on FFEP. Edge of text block is foxed. Text is unmarked but the entire text block is rippled from water damage suggesting a previous owner might have had some success with the practice. Dust jacket is rubbed with several small tears along edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR
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- Bookseller
- Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2773
- Title
- The Divining Hand: The 500 Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing- The Art of Searching for Water, Oil, Minerals, and Other Natural Resources or Anything Lost, Missing or Badly Needed
- Author
- Christopher Bird
- Format/Binding
- See Description
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- See Description
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525093737
- ISBN 13
- 9780525093732
- Publisher
- Dutton Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 340
- Size
- 8x10.5
- Keywords
- Dowsing, Dousing, Ground Water
- Bookseller catalogs
- Water;
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....