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• Phoenix: seu Artificiosa Memoria (in Latin; Vicentiae: Apud Petro Bertelli Bibliopola Patauina, 1600), by Petrus Ravennas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo di M. Lodouico Dolce (In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista, et Marchio Sessa Fratelli, 1562., 1562), by Lodovico Dolce, Johann Horst von Romberch, Giovanni Battista Sessa, Melchiorre Sessa, and Giovanni Battista Sessa & fratelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of memory (Printed and are to be sold by Leonard Sowersby, at the Turn-stile, near New-market, in Lincolns-Inn fields, 1661), by John Willis and Leonard Sowerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historische Bilder, darinnen Idea Historiae Universalis : Eine kurtze Summarische Abbildung der Fürnehmsten Geist- und Weltlichen Geschichte von Anfang der Welt durch die Patriarchen Richter und Könige in Israel und Juda die IV. Monarchien, sampt andern Königen : Item der berühmtesten Scribenten Geist- und Weltlichen der Kirchen-Lehrer und Ketzer sampt den merckwürdigsten Geschichten in Millenarios, Secula und Decennia : in Tausend Hundert und Zehen Jahr abgetheilet und biss an das 1693. Jahr ausgeführet und in annehmlichen Bildern fürgestellet also dass so woll Alte als Junge Leute auch die Jenigen so eben keine Profession von den studiis machen eine richtige Ordnung der Geist- und Weltlichen Historien leichtich begreiffen und im Gedächtniss behalten auch andere Geschichte hiernach in ihre Zeiten bringen und setzen können (Wittenberg : Mit Schulzischen Schrifften, A. 1693., 1693), by Johannes Buno, Richard Aron, Martin Schultz, Paul von Klingenberg, and Richard Aron Collection on European Education (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of memory a treatise useful for such as are to speak in publick / by Marius D'Assigny ... (London : Printed by J.D. for Andr. Bell ..., 1697), by Marius D'Assigny (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Artificiosa memoria. English ([Imprynted at London : In Fletestrete at the sygne of the George by Wyllyam Myddylton, [ca. 1545]]), by Ravennas Petrus and Robert Copland (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mnemonica, sive, Reminiscendi ars. English. 1661 (London : Printed and are to be sold by Leonard Sowersby, 1661), by John Willis and Leonard Sowerby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mnemonica, sive reminiscendi ars. Book 3. English (London : Printed by W. Iones, and are to be sold by Henry Seely in Pauls churchyard at the Tygres head, 1621), by John Willis (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Art of Memory: Being a Comprehensive and Practical System of Memory Culture (St. Paul: National Pub. Co., 1898), by Henry H. Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mastery of Memorizing (third edition; Harrisburg, PA: J.P. Downs, c1891), contrib. by James P. Downs, Wm. Raimond Baird, John Heyl Vincent, William Archibald Dunning, and G. F. C. Smillie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological Exercises (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1930), ed. by A. R. Orage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Historical epochs, with system of mnemonics, to facilitate the study of chronology, history, and biography (Taintor brothers, Merrill & co., 1882), by E. A. Fitz Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wie Erlange ich Gedächtniskraft? Ein Lehr- und Handbuch (Rudolph, 1922), by Hanns Martin Elster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gedächtniswissenschaft und die Steigerung der Gedächtniskraft (O. Gmelin, 1922), by Paul Engelen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memory as a power of knowledge; or, Three months' agreeable study, one hour per day (Press of J.J. Little & Co., 1888), by William Lemuel Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Loisette" exposed (Marcus Dwight Larrowe, alias Silas Holmes, alias Alphonse Loisette). (G. S. Fellows, 1888), by G. S. Fellows, A. Loisette, and Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'éducation de la mémoire. (E. Flammarion, 1919), by Ch.-L. Julliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Assimilative memory : or, How to attend and never forget (Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1896), by A. Loisette (page images at HathiTrust)
• American mnemotechny, or art of memory, theoretical and practical ... comprising the principles of the art, as applied to ancient history ... modern ... history ... prose, poetry, names ... etc. with a mnemotechnic dictionary (Pub. for the author, by Wiley and Putnam, 1848), by Pliny Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Votre mémoire, comment la développer. Conférence faite ... 9 octobre 1913, à la chambre de commerce de Bruxelles sous les auspices du comité organisateur du Salon du bureau moderne (Librairie scientifique kündig, 1918), by Paul Nyssens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ye merry accountant; a little book of mnemonics ... (Gee & Co., Ltd., 1928), by M. Tuohy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memory systems, new and old (Fellows & Co., 1888), by A. E. Middleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of memory; being a comprehensive and practical system of memory culture (National publishing company, 1898), by Henry H. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rational memory. (W.H. Groves], 1901), by W. H. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assimilative memory, or, How to attend and never forget (Funk & Wagnalls, 1899), by Marcus Dwight Larrowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to remember, without memory systems or with them (F. Warne & Co., 1901), by Eustace H. Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quickness of perception. (J.P. Downs, 1891), by Edgar W. Hassler (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to develop an exceptional memory (Wilshire Book Co., 1962), by Morris N. Young and Walter Brown Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Techniques for efficient remembering (McGraw-Hill, 1960), by Donald Anderson Laird and Eleanor C. Laird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hijutsu denpō (Hakubunkan, 1897), by Otowa Ōhashi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of memory development (University Pub. Co., 1919), by Cameron B. Rowlingson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal efficiency and mind power building. Course of 12 lessons (Thomson-Heywood Co., 1921), by D. Herbert Heywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artificial memory: the grand method of making a bad memory good, and a good memory better. (Pub. for the author by A.L. Bancroft & company, 1873), by William Nemos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miller's Mind training for children : a practical training for successful living ; educational games that train the senses (W.E. Miller, 1921), by William Emer Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Learn and like it (C.A. Willing, 1946), by J. Lowell Henderson and Walter R. Carle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. R. Grey's Memoria technica : or, Method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy; also, Jewish, Grecian and Roman coins, weights, measures, &c. To wich are subjoined, Loew's Mnemonics delineated, in various branches of literature and science. (Printed for J. Vincent [etc.], 1844), by Richard Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertazione di Francesco Cancellieri intorno agli uomini dotati di gran memoria ed a quelli divenuti smemorati (Francesco Bovrlie, 1815), by Francesco Cancellieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secret of a good memory. (D. Lothrop and Company, 1885), by J. Mortimer Granville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hardinge's Phonography, and mnemonics; or , The art of memorizing historical dates ... (A.H. Smythe, 1880), by Stewart Hardinge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. R. Grey's Memoria technica, or, Method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy. Also, Jewish, Grecian, and Roman coins, weights, measures, &c. To which are subjoined, Lowe's Mnemonics delineated, in various branches of literature and science. (Printed for J. Vincent; [etc., etc.], 1824), by Richard Grey and Solomon Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• An improved system of mnemonics : or, Art of assisting the memory, simplified, and adapted to the general branches of literature, with a dictionary of words, used as signs of the arithmetical figures (C. Cradock [etc.], 1813), by Thomas Coglan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new art of memory, founded upon the principles taught by M. Gregor von Feinaigle: and applied to chronology, history, geography, languages, systematic tables, poetry, prose, and arithmetic. (Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1813), by Gregor von Feinaigle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mnemonic tables, for the use of the attendants on the course of lectures delivered on the art of improving memory (Robinson, 1820), by J. M. Manners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mnemonik und ihre Anwendung auf das Studium der Geschichte. (Steiner, 1848), by Edward Pick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis of memory on a phrenological standpoint. (Fowler & Wells co.; [etc., etc., 1903), by R. W. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions in the use and development of the memory (Pub. by the author, 1890), by George Yule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria technica or, A new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy. Also Jewish Grecian and Roman coins, weights and measures, etc. With tables proper to the respective sciences; and memorial lines adapted to each table. (Printed for J. Stagg, 1737), by Richard Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il sistema mnemonico di Mr. Castilho succintamente esposto ... (Nella Stamperia Formigli, 1835), by Pietro Fraticelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über den Einfluss der Übung eines Spezialgedächtnisses auf das Allgemeingedächtnis. (Leemann, 1906), by Margarethe Jansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Improving the memory for faces and names (B. Humphries, inc., 1934), by James D. Weinland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of English history with memory formulas: dates permanently fixed in the mind without the use of figures (Tiernan-Havens Print. Co., 1900), by Henry Alfred Duboc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical epochs, with system of mnemonics, to facilitate the study of chronology, history, and biography. (Taintor brothers, Merrill & co., 1882), by E. A. Fitz Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of memory, reduced to a systematic arrangement : exemplified under the two leading principles, locality and association : with a specimen of a mnemonic dictionary (Printed for the author by J.T. Murden, 1818), by J. R. Murden (page images at HathiTrust)
• New method of artificial memory. (Printed for W. Lowndes, no.76, Fleet Street; sold by, 1799), by Richard Grey and W. Lowndes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sistema mnemonico (Dai torchj di L. Pezzati, 1834), by Filippo Garello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mnemonics : or, The new science of artificial memory; explained in its application to the study of numbers, the sciences, and to useful occupations of life, whereby the natural memory is greatly assisted and strenghtened ... (Published for the proprietor, by J. Mowatt & Co., 1844), by Theodore W. Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory culture; the science of observing, remembering and recalling (The Psychic research company, 1903), by William Walker Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory (Gale & Polden, Limited, 1904), by Datas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rational mnemonics; or, Assistance for the memory, resulting from a philosophical direction of natural principles. (A. V. Blake and O. O. Wickham, 1845), by Thomas Hallworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'arte della memoria : filosofia, storia, precetti, appendici : opera (V. Carlo, 1905), by Tito Aurelj (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First fundamental basis of Prof. Fr's. Fauvel-Gouraud's phreno-mnemotechnic principles : consisting in a philosophical decomposition of all the human languages in general, and of the English language in particular into articulations and sounds. (Printed for the author by Hovel and Macoy, 1844), by Francis Fauvel-Gouraud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sambrook's Phonographic system of mnemonics, summary of class tuition. (Akrill, Ruddock and Keyworth, printers, 1889), by J. Sambrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of phreno-mnemotechny, or, Art of acquiring memory (H.K. Ellyson, 1845), by Pliny Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phreno-mnemotechnic dictionary; being a philosophical classification of all the homophonic words of the English language; containing also separate classifications of geographical, mythological, biographical, scientific and technical homophonic words to be used in the application of the phreno-mnemotechnic principles (Houel and Macoy, 1844), by Francis Fauvel-Gouraud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural method of memorizing and memory training based on the four laws of logical connection, co-existence, resemblance, and contrast in ... (New Haven, Conn., 1888), by Wilbert Webster White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secret of a good memory. (D. Bogue, 1880), by J. Mortimer Granville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The accretive system of developing memory and thought. (E. H. Libby, 1890), by James Pierson Downs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvement of the memory. (The Memory co., 1889), by John A. Shedd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental calisthenics (Pub. for the author, 1892), by G. A. Schram (page images at HathiTrust)
• A perfect memory; how to attain it. Comprising the practical points of numerous memory systems; with valuable hints for strengthening and confirming the memory. (The Teachers' publishing company, 1889), by Charles Hartley and John A. Shedd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory; a scientific, practical method of cultivating the faculties of attention, recollection and retention (Printed for the publishers, 1895), by A. Loisette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mind and memory culture, a new study ... ([Auburndale? Mass., 1888), by E. C. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prospectus. The natural method of memorizing and memory training ([New Haven? Conn., 1888), by Wilbert Webster White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The science of memory fully expounded. For the use of students, ministers, public speakers, etc. (J. Nisbet and co., 1866), by B. Lyon Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions in the use and development of the memory (W. Knowles, 1890), by George Yule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory training of the young. (J.P. Downs, 1891), by Edgar W. Hassler and Ermentine Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eye and ear memory. (J.P. Downs, 1891), by Joseph Singer, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, James P. Downs, and Edgar W. Hassler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental calisthenics, or, Physiological memory : the natural laws and principles governing the intellectual processes ... (Published for the author, 1892), by G. A. Schram (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1000 secrets of rich and wise men revealed (s.n.], 1898), by C. A. Bogardus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nixon's assistant in remembering dates, distances of the planets, heights of mountains, abridged method of writing and showing how children can be taught to recollect their tables by a few hour's study. (Ontario Workman Office, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of mnemotechnia, or, Science of memory (s.n.], 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rational memory training a series of articles on memory, its practical value, its phenomenal powers, its physiological basis, the laws which govern it, the methods of improving it ; attention, association and arrangement of ideas, causes of defective memory, mnemonics, their use and abuse, etc., etc., ; with hints and helps in memorizing figures, lists of words, prose and poetic literature, new languages, etc. (Austin Pub. Co., 1894), by B. F. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notions élémentaires sur conversation et discours, synonymes, culture de la mémoire, pouvoir de la volonté, psychologie, l'art du physionomiste (Institut World, 1914), by Institut World (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mind training for children. (W.E. Miller, 1920), by William Emer Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory training; a complete and practical system for developing and confirming the memory, adapted to all kinds of subjects (A.S. Barnes & co., 1889), by William Lemuel Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of memory : being a comprehensive and practical system of memory culture (National publishing company, 1898), by Henry H. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on memory culture (E.L. Kellogg & co., 1899), by Edward Pick (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to acquire a good memory. (The author, 1886), by Asa S. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to attend and never forget (Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1898), by A. Loisette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory manual. Explaining, in short and simple lessons, a system of ... developing the memory ... with an appendix ... (Printed for the author, 1886), by George Yule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedächtnis-ausbildung; die wissenschaft des wahrnehmens, erinnerms und zurückrufens. Mit autorisation übers. (V.T. Daniels, 1904), by Yogi Ramacharaka and Johannes Hermann Wallfisch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mastery of memorizing. (J.P. Downs, 1890), by Charles Godfrey Leland, W. A. Dunning, J. H. Vincent, and W. R. Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr.Ewald Hartenbach's Kunst, ein vorzügliches Gedächtniss zu erlangen. Nicht Markschreierei, sondern auf Wahrheit,Erfahrung und Vernunft begründet und auf fast alle Wissenschaften anwendbar. Zum Besten aller Stände und aller Lebensalter. (Verlag der Ernst'schen Buchhandlung, 1882), by Ewald Hartenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental gymnastics, or Lessons on memory. (Chicago, 1886), by Adam Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental gymnastics, or, Lessons on memory. (Chicago, 1886), by Adam Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory and its doctors. (Trubner, 1888), by Edward Pick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memory training,its laws and their application to practical life. (The Pelman School of Memory Training, [W.J.Ennever, 1903), by Christopher Louis Pelman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of English history with memory formulas : dates permanently fixed in the mind without the use of figures (Tiernan-Havens printing company, 1900), by Henry Alfred Duboc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical epochs, with system of mnemonics, to facilitate the study of chronology, history, and biography. (Taintor brothers, Merrill & co., 1883), by E. A. Fitz Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Berol system of memory training. ([The Brieger press, inc.], 1918), by Felix Berol and William Berol (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secret of a good memory (Printed for the author by Eagle printing and binding co., 1906), by J. Mortimer Granville and J. W. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dialogo di M. Lodouico Dolce (In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista, et Marchio Sessa Fratelli, 1562., 1562), by Lodovico Dolce, Johann Horst von Romberch, Giovanni Battista Sessa, Melchiorre Sessa, and Giovanni Battista Sessa & fratelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural method of memorizing and memory training based on the four laws of logical connection, co-existence, resemblance, and contrast, in eight lessons ... (New Haven, Conn., 1888), by Wilbert Webster White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über memorieren und memorierstoff auf dem gebiete des religionsunterrichts. Ein beitrag zur reform des religionsunterrichts (C. Meyer, 1909), by Heinrich Hansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to remember names and faces; how to develop a good memory (Simon and Schuster, 1943), by Robert H. Nutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rational memory (Cosmopolitan Press, 1912), by William Henry Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to remember names & faces : facts and figures ([Sigmund Blomberg], 1961), by Sigmund Blomberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mnemonisches sprücheheft, oder, Abdruck von 317 Bibeltexten mit mnemonischen hülfsmitteln zur einprägung der dazu gehörenden schriftstellen : mit einem verfahren, sich jeden beliebigen schriftspruch nach dem biblischen buche, capital und verse genau zu merken : als anhang zu jeder anderen, aber besonders zu der von ihm verfassten Katechismus-erklärung (Selbstverlag des verfassers, 1870), by G. Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to cash in on your hidden memory power (Prentice-Hall, 1963), by William D. Hersey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Your memory : speedway to success in earning, learning and living : featuring the auto-magic memory method (Exposition Press, 1958), by O. W. Hayes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memory culture : the science of observing, remembering and recalling (A.C. McClurg, 1911), by William Walker Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pelmanism. (Pelman institute of America, 1923), by Pelman institute of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to develop a good memory for names, faces, and facts (Simon and Schuster, 1941), by Robert H. Nutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mental gymnastics; or, Lessons on memory. (Chicago, 1887), by Adam Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological exercises (Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1930), by A. R. Orage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tratado de mnemonica; ou, Methodo facilimo para decorar muito em pouco tempo (Imprensa Nacional, 1851), by Antonio Feliciano de Castilho (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'arte di ritenere a memoria. (A cura dell'autore, 1859), by Carlo Cetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• New and improved system of mnemonics, or, Two hours' study in the art of memory (The author, 1816), by G. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American mnemotechny, or art of memory (M. H. Newman & co., 1848), by Pliny Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first-sight phenomena of historic time, and the ocular mechanism of historic memory : developing organic principles for the most rapid possible acquisition and affixment of historical knowledge, and forming an elucidatory and illustrative companion to the fifth edition, coloured, of Major Bell's twenty-five royal folio synchrono-historic and biographic tables (Printed for the author; and sold by R. Baldwin, 1853), by James Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to master your memory. (Gulf Pub. Co., 1962), by David V. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoria cyclopedia; or, The art of memory, applied to technicalities and numbers in the sciences. Based on the analysis of sounds and articulations. (S. O. Dunbar, 1846), by Lorenzo D. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miller's Mind training for children Book 3 (of 3): A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses, by William Emer Miller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Miller's Mind training for children Book 2 (of 3): A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses, by William Emer Miller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Miller's Mind training for children Book 1 (of 3): A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses, by William Emer Miller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Assimilative Memory; or, How to Attend and Never Forget, by A. Loisette (Gutenberg ebook)

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