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Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2002), by Holly J. Everett (page images at unt.edu)
Memorial Customs, Ancient and Modern (New York: M. Shepard Co., 1907)
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Burial Service of the Orders of Knighthood as Adopted by the Grand Commandery of Michigan, and Recommended by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States (Detroit: Daily Post Printing Establishment, 1868), by Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
The Danger of Premature Internment, Proved from Many Remarkable Instances of People Who Have Recovered After Being Laid Out for Dead, and of Others Entombed Alive, for Want of Being Properly Examined Prior to Interment (London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by Joseph Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
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Les populations primitives. (H. Champion, 1897), by Edgard Lucien Ferdinand Pothier (page images at HathiTrust)
Mélanges de sociologie religieuse et folklore (F. Alcan, 1928), by Robert Hertz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The last act: being the funeral rites of nations and individuals ... (W. Tegg & co., 1876), by William Tegg (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of mourning. (Jay's, 1890), by Richard Davey (page images at HathiTrust)
Immortal man; a study of funeral customs and of beliefs in regard to the nature and fate of the soul (Methuen & Co. ltd., 1926), by C. E. Vulliamy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Livet efter døden; studier over de ældste indiske begravelses-ritualer (Universitetsbogtrykkeriet (J. H. Schultz a/s), 1915), by Dines Andersen and Københavns universitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The high cost of dying (Crowell-Collier Press, 1963), by Ruth Mulvey Harmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Cremation of the dead: its history and bearings upon public health (Smith, Elder & co., 1875), by William Eassie (page images at HathiTrust)
The mummy; chapters on Egyptian funereal archaeology (University Press, 1893), by E. A. Wallis Budge (page images at HathiTrust)
Death and burial lore in the English and Scottish popular ballads (Lincoln, Neb., 1927), by Lowry Charles Wimberly (page images at HathiTrust)
Origine du culte des morts; les sépultures préhistoriques (J. Gamber, 1914), by Paul de Mortillet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La croyance à la vie future et le culte des morts dans l'antiquité israélite (Fischbacher, 1906), by Adolphe Lods (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jiangsu bian ding li zhi hui sang li fu cao an. ([publisher not identified], 1932), by Wennan Yao and Jiangsu bian ding li zhi hui (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Totenhochzeit : ein Vortrag gehalten in der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte zu Jena (H. Costenoble, 1904), by Otto Schrader (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pokhorony u i͡akutov v si͡evernoĭ chasti I͡Akutskoĭ oblasti (Tip. K.Ī. Viktovskoĭ, 1890), by V. L. Priklonskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
Begraben und Verbrennen im Lichte der Religions- und Kulturgeschichte. (M. & H. Marcus, 1910), by Otto Schrader (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Greek folklore. On the breaking of vessels as a funeral rite in modern Greece. (Harrison and sons, 1893), by Nikolaos G. Politēs and Louis Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Begräbniss-Ritus und einige specielle und alterthümliche Gottesdienste der Orthodox-Katholischen Kirche des Morgenlandes. (K. Siegismund, 1898), by AlekseiÌ† Petrovich MalÊ¹tÍ¡sev and Orthodox Eastern Church (page images at HathiTrust)
Inleidinge tot het ceremonieel, en de plegtigheden der begraavenissen en der wapen-kunde (By Andries Voorstad, 1713), by Kornelis van Alkemade (page images at HathiTrust)
Funeral customs the world over (Bulfin Printers, 1963), by Robert Wesley Habenstein and William M. Lamers (page images at HathiTrust)
Verbrennen und bergraben bei unsern vorfahren. (Voss, 1885), by Ernst Theodor Rautenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Begräbnisarten der Amerikaner und Nordostasiaten. (Hartung, 1894), by Konrad Theodor Preuss (page images at HathiTrust)
Les grands enterrements (H. Simonis Empis, 1892), by Francis Chevassu, Adolphe Willette, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Louis Legrand, and Jean Louis Forain (page images at HathiTrust)
The shrines and sepulchres of the Old and New world. (T. C. Newby, 1851), by Richard Robert Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
A guide to the first and second Egyptian rooms. Mummies, mummy-cases, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians. (The Trustees, 1898), by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and E. A. Wallis Budge (page images at HathiTrust)
Les sépultures : devant l'histoire, l'archéologie, la liturgie, le droit ecclésiastique et la législation civile (J. Albanel, 1868), by Édouard de Hornstein (page images at HathiTrust)
Des tombeaux; ou, D l'influence des institutions funèbres sur les moeurs (Chez F. Buisson, 1801), by Joseph de Girard (page images at HathiTrust)
Historische und rechtliche abhandlung von begräbniss-mahlzeiten, und denen auf solche verwendete unkosten ... (J.C. Langenheim, 1747), by Gottlob August Jenichen (page images at HathiTrust)
Funeral costs; what they average. Are they too high? Can they be reduced? (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1928), by John C. Gebhart and Advisory committee on burial survey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A history of Egyptian mummies : and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834), by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (page images at HathiTrust)
Interment of the dead, a dictate of natural affection, sanctioned by the word of God, and the examples of the good in every age. A sermon delivered in Ipswich, Second parish, July 23, 1818, on the occasion of reinterring the coffins which had been robbed of their contents. (Printed by Flagg and Gould, 1818), by Robert Crowell (page images at HathiTrust)
Zur Psychologie der Trauer- und Bestattungsgebräuche (Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924), by Hans Zulliger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Das Recht der Toten : eine germanistische Untersuchung (Druck der Union deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1916), by Hans Schreuer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der Dreissigste (Buchdruckerei, der K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1864), by C. G. Homeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Gatherings from grave yards; particularly those of London: with a concise history of the modes of interment among different nations, from the earliest periods. And a detail of dangerous and fatal results produced by the unwise and revolting custom of inhuming the dead in the midst of the living. (Messrs. Longman and Company;, 1839), by George Alfred Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
De keizerrogi. Rede uitgesproken bij de opening zijner lessen als privaat-docent in de oude geschiedenis aan de Rijks-universiteit te Leiden op den 29sten januari 1915 (E.J. Brill, 1915), by J. C. P. Smits (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Feuerbestattung; unter allen zur Zeit ausführbaren Bestattungsarten die beste Sanitätspolizei des Bodens und der sicherste Cordon gegen Epidemien (Enke, 1875), by Friedrich Küchenmeister (page images at HathiTrust)
Recherches historiques et critiques sur la morgue (Adolphe Delahays, 1860), by Firmin Maillard (page images at HathiTrust)
Die todten-gebräuche der verschiedenen völker der vor- und jetztzeit. (F. Fleischer, 1846), by Friedrich Chr Andreä (page images at HathiTrust)
Vieux papiers rennais : les placards mortuaires. (Librairie Malbrand, 1904), by Louis Esquieu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Totenbestattung in vorgeschichtlicher und geschichtlicher Zeit, in Gegenwart und Zukunft : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Toteneinäscherung (P. Reclam, 1896), by Ernst Vix (page images at HathiTrust)
Eylfertigas Bedencken über einigen neulich gefundenen Rendesburigschen Navlis oder Danicis : das ist von demjenigen Gelde sa die vormahlige Limbrisch-Holsteinische Einwohner ihren Verstorbenen als einen gewissen Reise- oder Fähr-Pfennin mit auf den Weg gegeben... (By Gotthilff Lehmann Königl. privil. Buchhändl., 1709), by Gottlob Lehmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Relazione dell'esequie fatte dall'illustrissima città di Lodi per la morte della Sacra Maestà della reina di Spagna Maria Luisa di Borbone (Nella Regia ducal corte per Marc'Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta ..., 1689), by Mattia Baset (page images at HathiTrust)
Esequie a Sua Maesta la reina di Sardigna (Nella Regia ducal corte, per Giuseppe Richino Malatesta ..., 1735), by Francesco Croce and Marc'Antonio Dal Re (page images at HathiTrust)
Del fvnerale celebrato nel duomo di Torino all' Altezza Reale di Carlo Emanvele II duca di Savoia (Per Bartolomeo Zappata, 1676), by Giulio Vasco, Bartolomeo Zavatta, Giovanni Battista Brambilla, Charles-Claude Dauphin, Giovanni Tommaso Borgonio, Carlo Giuseppe Cortella, Giovanni Antonio Recchi, Georges Tasnière, and Antonio De Piene (page images at HathiTrust)
Eseqvie del serenissimo Ferdinando II, gran dvca di Toscana (Nella Stamperia di S.A.S. per il Vangelisti, e Matini, 1671), by Manfredi Macigni, Ferdinando Tacca, Giovanni Battista Falda, Grand-Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III, and Italy) Stamperia di S.A.S. (Florence (page images at HathiTrust)
Pompe fvnebri di tvtte le nationi del mondo (Per Francesco Rossi, 1646), by Francesco Perucci and Girolamo Porro (page images at HathiTrust)
Exequiae in templo S. Nazarii Manfredo Septalio (Apud Impressores Archiepiscopales, 1680), by Giovanni Maria Visconti, Giovanni Battista Bonacina, and Cesare Fiori (page images at HathiTrust)
Fvnerale d'Agostin Carraccio : fatto in Bologna sva patria da gl'Incaminati academici del disegno (Presso Vittorio Benacci, 1603), by Benedetto Morello, Guido Reni, Francesco Brizio, and Lucio Faberio (page images at HathiTrust)
Pompa funebris Mediolanensis Francisci I Augusti (Nella stamperia di Guiseppe Marelli, 1766), by Giuseppe Marelli, Giacomo Mercoli, Carlo Riccardi, Francesco Croce, Giovanni Battista Manzoni, and Pasquale Maria Agudi (page images at HathiTrust)
Pompa funebre et le essequie del gia re christianissimo di Francia Francesco primo di questo nome (Per Pauolo Gherardo, 1547) (page images at HathiTrust)
Essequie del serenissimo don Francesco Medici, gran duca di Toscana II (Ne le case de' Sermartelli, 1587), by Giovanni Battista Strozzi and Bartolomeo Sermartelli (page images at HathiTrust)
Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del sermo. sig. Cosimo de' Medici, gran duca di Toscana (Appresso i Giunti, 1574), by Maggio Bazzanti (page images at HathiTrust)
Teatro de la gloria : consagrado a la excelentisima señora doña Felice de Sandoval Enriquez, duquesa de Vceda difunta : por el excelentisimo señor don Gaspar Tellez Giron, duque de Osuna, conde de Vreña, gouernador del estado de Milan y capitan general en Italia, en sus solemnes esequias celebradas en Milan. ([publisher not identified], 1671), by Giovanni Ambrogio Besozzi, Cesare Fiori, Giovanni Battista Bonacina, and Giuseppe Maria Maraviglia (page images at HathiTrust)
The religio medici and other writings of Sir Thomas Browne (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906), by Thomas Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Diplôme d'association de la Confrérie de la bonne mort I. but de l'association ... (s.n., 1878), by Edouard C. Fabre and Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque (1876-1886 : Fabre) (page images at HathiTrust)
Services at the installation of Rev. Raymond Calkins, D.D., January 23, 1913 and In memory of Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D., November 15, 1914. (Caustic-Claflin Co., 1914), by Mass.) First Church (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Le culte des morts dans le Céleste empire et l'Annam comparé au culte des ancêtres dans l'antiquité occidentale (E. Leroux, 1893), by A. Bouinais, A. Paulus, and Camille Imbault-Huart (page images at HathiTrust)
Pogrebelʹnyi͡a maski, ikh upotreblenīe i znachenīe. (Tip. Imp. universiteta, 1906), by S. K. Kuznet͡sov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Masonic funeral service : Peoria Lodge No. 15, A.F.A.M. ([Cremer & Spalding, printers], 1867), by Freemasons. Peoria (Ill.). Peoria Lodge No. 15 (page images at HathiTrust)
Der leichenwagen Alexanders des Grossen. (Leipzig, 1905), by Kurt Ferdinand Mueller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Speisung der Toten. (Druck von C.L. Krüger, 1903), by Paul Sartori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Funérailles et sépultures. Histoire des inhumations chez les peuples anciens et modernes (Librairie internationale, 1868), by Alexis Favrot (page images at HathiTrust)
Epitaphia : a collection of 1300 British epitaphs, grave and gay, historical and curious, annotated with biographical notes, anecdotes, etc., with an introduction upon modes of burial and a general survey of internments in the British Isles from mediaeval times, together with an account of peculiar internments, church folk-lore, and a short chapter on American epitaphs (L. Upcott Gill, 1909), by Ernest R. Suffling (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber das Haaropfer und einige andere Trauergebräuche bei den Völkern Indonesien's. (J.H. de Bussy, 1888), by G. A. Wilken (page images at HathiTrust)
Rituel domestique des funérailles en Annam. (Impr. et libr. Centrales des Chemins de Fer, impr. Chaix, 1885), by Émile Charles Lesserteur (page images at HathiTrust)
De lijkbezorging der Emoy-Chineezen. (M. Nijhoff, 1882), by J. J. M. de Groot (page images at HathiTrust)
Traite the orique et pratique de le gislation, de doctrine et de jurisprudence sur le monopole des inhumations et des pompes fune bres, prece de d'un historique du monopole chez les E gyptiens, les Grecs et les Romains. (Marseille, 1875), by B. Gaubert (page images at HathiTrust)
Esequie della maestà cesarea dell'imperadore Ferdinando II ([Nella stamperia De Massi e Landi], 1638), by Francesco Rondinelli, Alfonso Parigi, Stefano Della Bella, and Grand-Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II (page images at HathiTrust)
Parentalia Mariae Clementinae Magn. Britan. Franc., et Hibern.regin. issu Clementis XII. Pont. Max. (Appresso Giovanni Maria Salvioni stampator vaticano, 1736), by Filippo Juvarra, Maximilian Joseph Limpach, Rocco Pozzi, Ferdinando Fuga, Baldassare Gabbuggiani, Gian Paolo Panini, and Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (page images at HathiTrust)
Fvnerailles, & diuerses manieres d'enseuelir des Rommains, Grecs, & autres nations, tant anciennes que modernes (Par Iean de Tournes ..., 1581), by Claude Guichard, Jean de Tournes, and Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Geschiedenis en beschrijving der lijkbehandeling en rouwplechtigheden bij de meeste volken. (Drukkerij Polleunis, 1888), by Isidoor Bauwens (page images at HathiTrust)
Ragguaglio delle solenni eseqvie fatte celebrare in Roma nella Basilica di S. Clemente alla Sacra Real Maestà di Federigo Augusto re di Polonia dall'em̃o e rm̃o signor cardinale Annibale Albani, protettore di quel regno. (Apresso Giovanni Maria Salvioni Stampator Vaticano ..., 1733), by Annibale Albani, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, Andrea Rossi, Carlo Marchionni, Sebastiano Conca, Filippo Juvarra, Maximilian Joseph Limpach, Filippo Barigioni, and Paolo Posi (page images at HathiTrust)
Ḥesed shel emet : sefer reḥitsat ʻovre artsot ha-ḥayim : ʻal seder minhag Ḥevrat Ḳedushah Miḳṿah Yiśraʼel shel ḳ.ḳ. Shaʻar ha-Shamayim be-London ha-birah (The Society, 1899), by England). Society 'Mikveh Israel' Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation (London and Moses Gaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Eseqvie fatte in Venetia dalla natione fiorentina al serenissimo d. Cosimo II qvarto gran dvca di Toscana il dì 25 di maggio j62j. (Appresso il Ciotti, 1621), by Matteo Ingoli, Philipp Esengren, Francesco Valesio, and Giulio Strozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
The Christian cemetery in the nineteenth century; or the last war-cry of the communists. (Benziger, 1874), by J. Gaume (page images at HathiTrust)
Koimeterien : die altchristlichen begräbnisstatten (J. C. Hinrichs, 1902), by Nikolaus Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Description de la chambre et lit de parade sur lequel le corps de Son Altesse Royale Anne, princesse royale de la Grande-Bretagne, princesse douairiere d'Orange et de Nassau ... a été exposé pendant plusieurs jours en février 1759 : le tout sous la direction de monsieur De Lage, lieutenant-colonel & intendant des batimens ... / exactement dessinés par monsieur De Swart, architecte de la cour, & gravés en cuivre par Mr. S. Fokke. A La Haye : Chez Pierre Gosse junior ..., MDCCLIX (By Pierre Gosse Junior, boekverkooper van Z.D.H. den heere Erf-Stadhouder, 1759), by Jan Besoet, Pieter de Swart, and Simon Fokke (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Cathedra im Totenkult der heidnischen und christlichen Antike. (Münster : Aschendorff, 1927., 1927), by Theodor Klauser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Collection of pamphlets about Freemasons and other societies in Ecuador, 1905-1925. (Quito, Ecuador : [publisher not identified - various imprints], 1905-1925., 1905), by Ecuador (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les malheurs de Sophie (Librairie Hachette, 1899), by Sophie Ségur, Maud Gertrude Satterthwaite, and H. Castelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die altindischen Todten- und Bestattungsgebräuche. Mit Benützung handschriftlicher Quellen dargestellt von Dr. W. Caland. (Amsterdam, 1896), by Willem CALAND (page images at HathiTrust)
Corona funebre à la memoria del Ilmo. y Rvmo. Sr. Dr. D. Evaristo Blanco, Obispo de Nueva Pamplona. (Pamplona : Imprenta de la Diocesis, 1916., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sangje ye chʻwaryo. (s.n. ;, in the 1st century) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sarye chŏryak ([Place of publication not identified], 1889), by Han-gi To (page images at HathiTrust)
Libitina, seu, De funeribus : epitomes eruditionis volumen alterum : in quo, præcipui sepulturæ ritûs, apud Romanos, Græcos, Ægyptios, Iudæos, Turcas, aliasque gentes plurimas, obseruari soliti, et qui etiam nunc obseruantur, a Christianis [et] à Gallis, in regum suorum funeribus, reuocantur in nouam lucem : de funeribus item animalium adducuntur nonnulla : quibus denique, epitaphia quædam selecta, tum latina, tum gallica, tum feria, tum iocularia, subscribuntur (Sumptibus Antonii Molin ..., 1659), by François Pomey (page images at HathiTrust)
The danger of premature interment : Proved from many remarkable instances of people who have recovered after being laid out for dead, and of others entombed alive, for want of being properly examined prior to interment, by Joseph Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health, by William Eassie (Gutenberg ebook)
A History of Mourning, by Richard Davey (Gutenberg ebook)
Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2), by Lucius M. Sargent (Gutenberg ebook)
Dealings with the Dead, Volume 1 (of 2), by Lucius M. Sargent (Gutenberg ebook)
Rites of funeral ancient and modern in use through the known world written originally in French by Monsieur Muret ; and translated into English by P. Lorrain. (London : Printed for Rich. Royston, 1683), by Pierre Muret and P. Lorrain (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A description of the funeral solemnities, performed in the church of Nostre-Dame, at Paris: to honour the memory of his excellency the Lord Henry de la Tour D'Avergne Vicount Turenne: Colonel General of the light horse, and Marshall General of the Field and armies of Lewis the XIV of France. Wherein are represented the most remarkable passages of his life. Done into English out of French, by a gentleman that sometimes had the honour to serve under his command. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year MDCLXXV. [1675]), by Claude Morel (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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