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• Early American furniture and paintings : early American silver, Washingtoniana & related historical bibelots, Currier & Ives prints, oriental lowestoft porcelain, hooked rugs : property from the estates of the late Mrs. C. Wickliffe Yulee ... [et al.] : together with the famous Audubon painting, Spaniel flushing English pheasants, belonging to Trig Thordarson : public auction sale, January 11 and 12. (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1950), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Important colonial furniture & decorations : including the General John Stark heirlooms, two historic portraits by J. S. Copley ... : property of Israel Sack ... : unrestricted public sale, November 7-8-9 at 2:15 p.m. (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1929), by Anderson Galleries American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Chippendale and other English furniture of the XVIII century : tapestries, oriental rugs, paintings, silver, china, linens & laces : relics of George Washington and Robert Burns, portrait miniatures, gold boxes : property of the estates of the late Edward E.B. Adams (sold by order of City Bank, Farmers Trust Company, executor), Louise Wicke (sold by order of Carl Wicke, executor), property of Mrs. O.M. Mitchel (sold by her order), other owners and estates : public auction sale, February 19, 20, 21, at 2 p.m. (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1942), by Parke-Bernet Galleries and Hiram H. Parke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Artifacts acquisition : Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress should not compete : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Rules and Administration, U.S. Senate (The Office ;, 1992), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• The practical book of early American arts and crafts (Lippincott, 1916), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbot McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• About antiques (J. B. Lippincott company, 1929), by Ella Shannon Bowles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of antiques (Tudor Pub. Co., 1946), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Summary of trade and tariff information : works of art and antiques, articles of carving or molding material, and waste and scrap and nonenumerated products, TSUS items 765.03-766.30, 792.10-792.75, 793.00, and 798.00-799.00. (U.S. International Trade Commission, 1984), by United States International Trade Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms (Detroit: Douglas Book Shop, 1922), by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text)
• Booksellers I have met (The Douglas Book Shop, 1922), by Guido Bruno (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bernardo Mendel, bookman extraordinaire, 1895-1967. (Indiana University Publications, 1973), by Cecil K. Byrd and Bloomington) Lilly Library (Indiana University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Directory of the antiquarian booksellers and dealers in second-hand books of the United States arranged, first : in a general alphabet, with addresses ; second : geographically according to States and towns ; third : classifying the specialities of each dealer : together with valuable hints for finding the author, title, publisher, place of publication, edition, size or price of books, a list of practical bibliographies, trade catalogues, retail and special lists, literary and trade journals, advertising mediums, etc., all pertaining to the foreign and American new antiquarian book trade (C.N. Caspar, 1885), by C. N. Caspar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Samuel Gardner Drake : his life-work and his library. (s.n., 1876), by S. A. D. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gowans' catalogue of books published by; also, certain remains of editions published by other houses : for sale at the affixed prices, store, 115 Nassau Street, New York ... (J. Munsell, 1867), by William Gowans and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cruikshankiana : a choice collection of books illustrated by George Cruikshank, together with original water-colors, pen and pencil drawings, etchings, caricatures and original proofs (New York, 1916), by Robert H. Dodd, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, and Robert H. Dodd (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americana catalogue (Francis P. Harper, 1903), by Francis P. Harper (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• April, 1865 (Rosenbach Co., 1940), by Rosenbach Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Forty years among the old booksellers of Philadelphia : with bibliographical remarks (A.P. Brotherhead, 1891), by William Brotherhead (page images at HathiTrust)

• Valuable paintings and other art property belonging to Senhor Salvador de Mendonça, Brazilian minister (The American Art Association, 1899), by Salvador de Mendonça, Thomas E. Kirby, American Art Galleries, and American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• A catalogue of minor art (Canessa Galleries, 1917), by C. & E. Canessa (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collectors of American Art, Inc. (Collectors of American Art, Inc., Printed by The Modern Press, 1956), by Inc Collectors of American Art and Emily A. Francis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The life of Edward E. Ayer (A.C. McClurg, 1929), by Frank C. Lockwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Practical Technology for Archives (2013-) (full serial archives)

• Precious books : why and where they are treasured (A.T. Walraven Book Cover Co., 1933), by Jessie Gillespie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Private book collectors (R. R. Bowker Co., 1919), by Bertine E. Weston, John Allan Holden, and R.R. Bowker Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book in America : a history of the making and selling of books in the United States (Bowker, 1951), by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book collectors and their hobbies (The Rare book shop, 1913), by Washington Rare book shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The libraries of the Mathers (Davis Press, 1910), by Julius Herbert Tuttle, American Antiquarian Society, and Massachusetts Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private book collectors in the United States and Canada. (R.R. Bowker, 1948) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Private book collectors in the United States and Canada. (R.R. Bowker, 1953) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Introduction to stamp collecting (The Service, 1985), by United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precanceled stamps (A. Gunesch, 1936), by Precancel Stamp Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 1941, a world at war (United States Postal Service, 1991), by Rowe Findley, William Henry Bond, and United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Introduction to stamp collecting (The Service, 1985), by United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autographs of the signers of the Declaration ([s.n.], 1926), by Charles Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rare American historical autographs and a few very rare books ... the collection of Frederick S. Peck ... ([Philadelphia, 1947), by Frederick Stanhope Peck and Samuel T. Freeman & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autographs; an American chronology ... (Goodspeed's, 1939), by Mass.) Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autograph collection (Anderson Galleries, 1926), by James Hilton Manning and Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the autographic collections of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution : from vol. xth, Wisconsin Historical Society collections (Burns & Sons, 1889), by Lyman Copeland Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the collection of autographs formed by Ferdinand Julius Dreer. (Printed for private distribution, 1890), by Ferdinand J. Dreer and Historical Society of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)

• The quest of the colonial (Century, 1913), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the colonial (The Penn publishing company, 1927), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The quest of the colonial (The Century Company, 1908), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vision of a collector : the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1991), by Tony Rosati, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), W. Thomas Taylor (Firm), and Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exploring the world of stamps in your classroom : a teacher's guide to stamp collecting. (United States Postal Service, 1982), by United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• USPS stamp poster. (United States Postal Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., in the 20th century), by United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• And now the world's greatest hobby : getting started in stamp collecting (with basic collecting tools). (U.S. Postal Service, 1983), by United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to stamp collecting (The Service, 1984), by United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin Franklin stamp club coloring book. (U.S. Postal Service, 1989), by United States Postal Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• The 1990 United States Mint catalogue of coins and medals. (U.S. Mint, 1990), by United States Mint (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vision of a collector : the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1991), by Tony Rosati, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), W. Thomas Taylor (Firm), and Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division (page images at HathiTrust)

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