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• Quizzism, and its Key: Quirks and Quibbles From Queer Quarters (sixth edition, 1886), by Albert P. Southwick (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Mind, matter and motion, with directions for good health in old age, by Adam Miller ... (Chicago [Blakely printing company], 1896), by Adam Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Portfolio: a selection of literary curiosities ... to which is added, a chronological table of general history, from the creation of the world to the present time. (London : Gye and Balne, 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The queer, the quaint, the quizzical; a cabinet for the curious ... By Frank H. Stauffer. (Philadelphia : David McKay, 1882), by Francis Henry Stauffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A second journey round the library of a bibliomaniac; or, Cento of notes and reminiscences concerning rare, curious, and valuable books. (London : Printed for W. Davis, 1825), by William Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of literature. By I. D'Israeli, esq. (New-York, William Pearson [et al.], 1835), by Isaac Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curious questions in history, literature, art and social life : designed as a manual of general information / by Sarah H. Killikelly. (New York : Union Library Association, 1886-1900), by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleanings for the curious from the harvest fields of literature, a melange of excerpta / collated by C.C. Bombaugh. (Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1874), by Charles C. Bombaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Variétés littéraires, ou Recueil de pièces, tant originales que traduites, concernant la philosophie, la littérature et les arts. (Paris : L'Imprimerie de Xhrouet, et Déterville, libraire, 1804), by F. Arnaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Apollo: containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences, serious, comical, and humorous, approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both universities, and of the Royal-Society. Perform'd by a society of gentlemen. (London, Printed for T. Sanders, 1726) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin de la société archéologique, historique et artistique le Vieux Papier : pour l'étude de la vie et des moeurs d'autrefois. (Lille : Lefebvre-Ducrocq.), by France) Vieux papier (Society : Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quizzism and its key : quirks and quibbles from queer quarters, a melange of questions in literature, science, history, biography, mythology, philology, geography, etc., etc., with their answers / by Albert P. Southwick ... (Boston : New England Pub. Co., 1884), by Albert Plympton Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy-book of literary curiosities. (Philadelphia, : J. B. Lippincott company, [c1925]), by William S. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy-book of literary curiosities / By William S. Walsh. (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1893), by William S. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, by Henry M. Brooks (Gutenberg ebook)

• Les fous littéraires; (Bruxelles, Gay et Doucé, 1880), by Gustave Brunet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les fous littéraires; rectifications et additions à l'Essai bibliographique sur la littéraire excentrique, les illuminés, visionnaires, etc., de Philomneste junior [pseud.] Par Av. Iv. Tcherpakoff. (Moscou, W. G. Gautier, 1883), by Avgust Ivanovich Cherpakov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recherches bibliographiques sur des livres rares et curieux par P.-L. Jacob (bibliophile) [pseud.] (Paris, E. Rouveyre, 1880), by P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A journey round the library of a bibliomaniac, or, Cento of notes and reminiscences concerning rare, curious, and valuable books / by William Davis. (London : Printed for W. Davis, 1821), by William Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Katalog der sammlungen des zu Eisenach verstorbenen herrn geheimen hofrat professor Kürschner. Handschriftlicher nachlass von Friedrich Müller (Mahler Müller) und Joh. Nic. Götz. Deutsche litteratur des XVIII. jahrhunderts ... Richard Wagner-manuscript. Deutsche theatergeschichte. Itlandsammlung. Kostbare sammlung von autographen und manuscripten ... Versteigerung montag, den 30, mai und folgende tage ... durch C. G. Boerner, Leipzig ... ([Leipzig, 1904]), by Joseph Kürschner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A catalogue of the Warehouse library of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps ... (London, Priv. print. by J. E. Adlard, 1876), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliotheca curiosa. Catalogue of the library of Andrew J. Odell. Prepared by George P. Philes. (New York, Sears and Cole, Printers, 1878-80), by Andrew J. Odell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief list of some of the rarer and most curious old-book rarities in the library of J. O. Halliwell, esq., illustrative chiefly of early English popular literature. (West Brompton, For private circulation only, 1862), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)

• The new science; or, Mento-Theology, the parables for the clergy, but intelligence for the people. [the new science as based upon axioms instead of parables including a key to the mysteries of the New Testament, with a revelation on faith addressed to the era of civilization.] By Miss Gracia Sciencia. [pseud?] (New York [Johnson & Herbert], 1858), by Grace Sciencia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Albion : in twelve books. (Bath : H. Gye, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature of electricity; cosmie, a new science. (Hartford, Case, Lockwood, & Brainard Co., 1883), by Roald Arentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws governing the orbital distribution of the solar system. (Fredonia, Kan., Christman, 1897), by J. F. Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breaking up; or, The birth, development and death of the earth and its satellite in story. By Lysander Salmon Richards ... (Boston, J. E. Farwell & Co., Printers, 1896), by Lysander Salmon Richards (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Poetical Works of Ossian (text from the Crosby and Nichols edition of 1863), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
• Temora: An Epic Poem, by James Macpherson (HTML with commentary at Auburn)
• Lectures and miscellanies. By H. W. Freeland. (London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857), by Humphrey William Freeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le truquage : les contrefaçons dévoilées. (Paris : E. Dentu, 1884), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and bookmen, by Andrew Lang. (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1887, 1899 printing), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libǔsin soud domnělá nejstarší památka řeči české jest podvržen též zlomek Evangelium Sv. Jana. (Ve Vídni. Nákladem spisovalelovým, 1879), by Alois Vojtěch Šembera (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and bookmen, by Andrew Lang ... (New York, G. J. Coombes, 1886), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bvreardi Gotthelffii Strvvii Introdvctio in notitiam rei litterariæ et vsvm bibliothecarvm. (Francofvrti et Lipsiæ, apud Ernestum Clavdivm Bailliar, 1729), by Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gu wei shu. ((1816)), by Jue Sun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Latin pseudepigrapha, a study in literary attributions, (Baltimore, 1945), by Evelyn Holst Clift (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts / von W. Wattenbach ... (Berlin : W. Hertz, 1893-1894), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literary forgeries / by J.A. Farrer ; with an introd. by Andrew Lang. (London : Longmans, Green, 1907), by James Anson Farrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les mystifications de Caillot-Duval; avec un choix de ses lettres les plus étonnantes, suivies des résponses de ses victimes. Introd. et éclaicissements par Lorédan Larchey, eau-forte de Faustin Besson. (Paris, Chez R. Pincebourde, 1864), by A. Fortia de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in early American history; the legends of Jekyl Island, by Franklin H. Head ... (Chicago, Priv. print., [189-]), by Franklin H. Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books and bookmen / by Andrew Lang. (New York : George J. Coombes, 1886), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books and bookmen [essays] (London, New York : Longmans, Green, 1892), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "La guzla" de Prosper Mérimée, étude dh̕istoire romantique; préface de m. Augustin Filon. (Paris, Hachette et cie, 1911), by Vojislav Mate Jovanović (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "La guzla" de Prosper Mérimée: les origines du livre, ses sources, sa fortune; étude d'histoire romantique. (Grenoble, Allier fréres, 1910), by Voj-islav Mate Jovanov-ié (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les grandes mystifications littéraires. Deuxième série. (Paris, Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1913), by Gilbert Augustin Thierry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hamburg-Bremen und Nordost-Europa vom 9. bis 11. Jahrhundert; kritische Untersuchungen zur hamburgischen Kirchengeschichte des Adam von Bremen, zu Hamburger Urkunden und zur nordischen und wendischen Geschichte, mit 2 Lichtdrucktafeln, von Dr. Phil. Bernhard Schmeidler ... (Leipzig, Dieterich, 1918), by Bernhard Schmeidler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and bookmen / by Andrew Lang. (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die ältesten Denkmäler der böhmischen Sprache : Libusǎ's Gericht, Evangelium Johannis, der Leitmeritzer Stiftungsbrief, Glossen der Mater verborum, kritisch beleuchtet / von Paul Joseph Safařik und Franz Palacky. (Prag : In Commission bei Kronberger und Riwnać, 1840), by Pavel Jozef Šafárik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice sur les manuscrits autographs de Champollion le jeune, perdus en l'année 1832, et retrouvés en 1840. Par M. Champollion Figeac. (Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1842), by M. Champollion-Figeac (page images at HathiTrust)
• De idololatria literaria liber singularis. (Hanoverae, Haer. B.N. Foerster et Fil., 1738), by Joannes Christophorus Koecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le truquage; altérations, fraudes et contrefaçons dévoilées. 4 mille. (Paris, Rouveyre, [1903]), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Schrift Origo gentis romanae : mit einer Abhandlung über ihr Verhältnis zu anderen Zitatenfälschungen des griechischen und römischen Altertums und mit Anmerkungen / hrsg. von Hermann Peter. (Leipzig : B.G. Teubner, 1912), by Hermann Peter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Untersuchungen zu urkundenfälschungen des mittelalters, von Wilhelm M. Peitz ... (Freiburg im Breisgau [etc.] Herder, 1919), by Wilhelm Maria Peitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literarische Fälschungen, von J.A. Farrer. Mit einer Einführung von Andr. Lang. Aus dem Englischen von Fr. J. Kleemeier. (Leipzig, T. Thomas, 1907), by James Anson Farrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunst und moral; briefwechsel zwischen William Shakespeare und Madame Gâches-Sarraute ... nach authentischen quellen hrsg. von H.B. (Zurich, Schmidt, 1903), by Herbert Barbaros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manoscritti inediti di Torquato Tasso : ed altri pregevoli documenti per servire alla biografia del medesimo : posseduti ed illustrati dal Conte Mariano Alberti / e pubblicati con incisioni & fac-simili per cura di Romualdo Gentilucci E C. (Lucca : Dalla Tipografia Giusti, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystifications: littéraires et théatrales. (Paris, Fontemoing, 1913), by Albert Cim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals forged in the XVth century ... (London, Diprose & Bateman, 1878), by John Wilson Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Reichenauer urkundenfälschungen ... (Heidelberg, Winter, 1890), by Karl Brandi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Natur und kunst, fortsetzung von Kunst und moral; briefwechsel zwischen William Shakespeare und Madame Gâches-Sarraute, docteur en médecine à Paris, nach authentischen quellen hrsg. von H.B. (Zürich, Schmidt, 1904), by Herbert Barbaros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The profession of journalism : accuracy in the news ; an address before the Pulitzer School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, delivered at Earl Hall, December 16, 1912. (New York : The World, 1912), by Ralph Pulitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le taensa n'a pas été forgé de toutes pièces; lettre de M. Friedrich Müller à Lucien Adam. (Paris, Maisonneuve frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Friedrich Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Une fabrique de faux autographes : ou récit de l'affaire Vrain Lucas / par Henri Bordier et Emile Mabille. (Paris : L. Techener, 1870), by Henri Léonard Bordier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in early American history. A notable lawsuit by Franklin H. Head ... (Chicago, Priv. print., [1898]), by Franklin H. Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannis Alberti Fabri, Decas decadum; sive, Plagiariorum & pseudonymorum centuria, accessit Exercitatio de lexicis græcis eodem auctore. (Lipsiæ, sumptibus hered. F. Lanckischii, Halis Saxonum literis Salfeldianis, 1689), by Johann Albert Fabricius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jin gu xue kao. (n.p., (1886)), by Ping Liao (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays from eary manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, (New York, Redfield, 1853), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vindication of Bishop Cleaver's edition of the Decretum Lacedæmoniorum contra Timotheum, from the strictures of R.P. Knight, esq., by the Bishop of St. David's. (London, Printed by J. Nichols and son, [1821]), by Thomas Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questions de littérature légale. Du plagiat, de la supposition d'auteurs, des supercheries qui ont rapport aux livres. Par Charles Nodier ... (Paris, Impr. de Crapelet, 1828), by Charles Nodier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary forgeries, (London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, Longmans, Green, and co., 1907), by James Anson Farrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chatterton, The Black death, ([New York?, c1922]), by Charles Reznikoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Rimbaud forgery; the affair of La chasse spirituelle, with unpublished documents and an anthology of Rimbaldian pastiches. (Saint Louis [Committee on Publications, Washington University], 1956), by Bruce Morrissette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue Taensa / avec textes traduits et commentés par J. D. Haumonte, Parisot, [et] L. Adam. (Paris : J. Maisonneuve, 1882), by Jean Parisot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die ältesten denkmäler der böhmischen sprache: Libuša's gericht, Evangelium Johannis, der Leitmeritzer stiftungsbrief, Glossen der Mater verborum, kritisch beleuchtet von Paul Joseph Šafařik ... und Franz Palacky ... Mit fac-simile's. (Prag, In commission bei Kronberger und Riwnac, 1840), by Pavel Jozef Šafárik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance philosophique de Caillot Duval, rédi gée d'après les pièces originales, et publiée par une Société de littérateurs lorrains. (A Nancy, Chez les marchands de Nouveautés, 1795), by A. Fortia de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts / von W. Wattenbach ... (Berlin : Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1858), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between the lines : letters and memoranda interchanged by H. Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise / with a foreword by Carl H. Pforzheimer and an introductory essay and notes by Fannie E. Ratchford. (Austin, Tex. : The University of Texas Press, 1945), by H. Buxton Forman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enthüllungen über den Simonides-Dindorfschen Uranios : zu einem Geschichtsabriss über Simonides, den Hermastext und das Leipzig-Berliner Palimpsest erweiterte, sowie mit Berichten und paläographischen Erläuterungen Prof. Tischendorfs u. Anderer vermehrte Auflage / von Alexander Lykurgos. (Leipzig : C. L. Fritzsche, 1856), by Alexandros Lykourgos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poddi͡elki rukopiseĭ i narodnykh pi͡esen. (S. Peterburg, [Ann Arbor, Mich., 1898), by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Pypin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Supercheries littéraires, pastiches, suppositions d'auteur, dans les lettres et dans les arts. Par Octave Delepierre ... (London, N. Trübner & cie., 1872), by Octave Delepierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facsimiles & forgeries : a guide to a timely exhibition in the William L. Clements Library. (Ann Arbor : [s.n.], 1950), by William L. Clements Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Koran: or, Essays, sentiments, characters, and callimachies, of Tri juncta in uno, M.N.A. or Master of no arts. Three volumes complete in one. (Vienna, Printed for R. Sammer, 1798), by Richard Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The posthumous works of Laurence Sterne ... [The Koran: or, The life, character, and sentiments, of Tria Juncta in Uno, M.N.A. or Master of No Arts. Vol. 1-2] (London, T. Cadell, 1794), by Richard Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sterne inédit. Le Koran. Oeuvres posthumes complètes. Traduit par Alfred Hédouin. Édition accompagnée de notes et ornée du portrait de Sterne. (Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1853), by Richard Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and The fables of Esop, edited by W. Wagner. (London, G. Bell & sons, 1883), by Richard Bentley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dissertations upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and The fables of Æsop. By Richard Bentley, D.D. Edited with an introduction and notes, by Wilhelm Wagner ... (Berlin, S. Calvary, 1874), by Richard Bentley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The poems of Ossian, translated by James Macpherson, esq. To which are prefixed a pr[eliminary] discourse and dissertations on the æra and poems of Ossian. (New York, E. Kearny, [1846?]), by James Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of fictitious names: being a guide to authors, chiefly in the lighter literature of the XIXth century, who have written under assumed names, and to literary forgers, impostors, plagiarists, and imitators, by Olphar Hamst, esq. [pseud.] ... (London, J. R. Smith, 1868), by Ralph Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lecture on literary impostures / by H.W. Freeland ... (London : Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, 1858), by H. W. Freeland (page images at HathiTrust)

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