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• The Poetry of Travelling in the United States, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Forster Collection: A Catalogue of the Paintings, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Pamphlets, Etc., Bequeathed by John Forster, Esq. LL. D., with indexes (London: Printed for HMSO by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1893), by South Kensington Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Consisting of Fac-Similes of Original Documents Relating to the Events of the Revolution, &c. &c. (sixth edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), ed. by J. Jay Smith and John F. Watson (Gutenberg page images)
• American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Consisting of Fac-Similes of Some Plates, &c. Relating to Columbus, and Original Documents of the Revolution, &c. &c. ... Second Series (New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1860), ed. by J. Jay Smith (Gutenberg HTML and page images)

• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
• The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)

• Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen L. Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (includes Arabic texts; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com

• Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (includes Arabic texts; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn: Ein Diplomat und Sammler des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German; Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1912), by Moritz Stübel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the Year 1869-1885 (2 volumes; London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Charlotte Guest, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Museum Wormianum: seu, Historia Rerum Rariorum (in Latin; Leiden: Elsevir, 1655), by Ole Worm (multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• Baxter's Procrustes, by Charles W. Chesnutt (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (c1920), by Vincent Starrett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, by Anatole France (Gutenberg text)

• The Collectors: Being Cases Mostly Under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments (1912), by Frank Jewett Mather (Gutenberg text)
• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Golden Bowl (1904), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Bowl (New York edition, 1909), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)

• The Connoisseur (1901-1992) (partial serial archives)
• The Collector, ed. by Alfred Trumble (partial serial archives)
• The Collector and Art Critic, ed. by David C. Preyer (full serial archives)
• Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Antiques (partial serial archives)

• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chats on Postage Stamps (second impression; London: T. F. Unwin, 1920), by Frederick John Melville (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Antique Maps (based on the third edition, 1989), by Carl Moreland and David Bannister (illustrated HTML at AntiqueMaps.co.uk)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide (1995), by Stephanie A. Hall (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• English Furniture (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona
• Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors (London: B. T. Batsford, 1908), by Margaret Jourdain
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

• The Coin Collector (London: G. Redway, 1896), by William Carew Hazlitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Outcry (1911), by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), ed. by Judith G. Smith and Wen Fong, contrib. by Richard M. Barnhart, James Cahill, Robert E. Harrist, Maxwell K. Hearn, Hironobu Kohara, Sherman E. Lee, Stephen Little, Qi Gong, Shih Shou-chien, Jerome Silbergeld, and Wango H. C. Weng (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

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