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• Inscriptions
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• Seals (Numismatics)

• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• 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)

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

• 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)

• Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1987), by Daniel M. Friedenberg (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell, by Hans Henning van der Osten (page images at Chicago)

• Sigillographie de l'Empire Byzantin (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1884), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1987), by Daniel M. Friedenberg (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1987), by Daniel M. Friedenberg (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Numismata Cromwelliana: or, The Medallic History of Oliver Cromwell, Illustrated by His Coins, Medals and Seals (London: John Russell Smith, 1877), by Henry William Henfrey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google

• Sasanian Stamp Seals in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), by Christopher J. Brunner (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Ancient Art in Miniature: Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Joan Aruz (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Die Antiken Gemmen, Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im Klassischen Altertum (3 volumes, n German; Leipzig: Giesecke und Devrient, 1900), by Adolf Furtwängler
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1987), by Daniel M. Friedenberg (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Die Älteren Papsturkunden des Erzbistums Hamburg: Eine Diplomatische Untersuchung (in German; Hamburg and Leipzig: L. Voss, 1909), by F. Curschmann
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'Archiviste François: ou, Méthode Sûre pour Apprendre à Arranger les Archives, et Déchiffrer les Anciennes Ecritures (second edition, in French; Paris: Le Clerc, 1775), by M. Batteney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Not Written in Stone: Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada (c2003), ed. by Daniel Judah Elazar, Michael Brown, and Ira Robinson (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• By-Laws of the Michigan State Reform School (1869), by Michigan Boys Vocational School (page images at MOA)

• Archaeologia Scotica: Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (full serial archives)

• Constitutional Provisions, Laws and By-Laws of the University of Michigan, by University of Michigan (page images at MOA)

• The Yukon Gazette, by Yukon (partial serial archives)

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of East Saginaw, by Saginaw (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• Bay City Charter, Rules of Common Council & Ordinances, by Bay City (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• The Charter of the City of Detroit as Amended, Together with Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (1867 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• Revised Charter (As Amended,) of the City of Detroit (1859 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit (1855 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, by Hudson's Bay Company (Gutenberg text)

• The Revised Charter & Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, with the By-Laws of the Council, by Kenosha (Wis.) (page images at MOA)

• Charter of the City of Lansing (1859), by Lansing (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• Meeting the Challenge of Charter Reform, by Kevin F. McCarthy, Steven P. Erie, and Robert E. Reichardt (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Revising the New York City Charter: Introductory Report (ca. 1973), by State Charter Revision Commission for New York City (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Richmond (Richmond, VA: J. E. Goode, city printer, 1875), by Richmond (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter of the City of East Saginaw, by Saginaw (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, With Seven Related Documents, 1606-1621 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #4; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), ed. by Samuel Merrifield Bemiss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (with annotations), by Herman Melville (HTML at slate.com)

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Brinkley Messick (HTML at UC Press)

• Clavis Diplomatica, Specimina Veterum Scripturarum Tradens, Alphabeta Nimirum Varia, Medii Aevi Compendia Scribendi, Notariorum Veterum Signa Perplura, cet. Singula Tabulis Aeneis Expressa (in Latin; Hanover, Germany: B. N. Foerster and sons, 1754), by Daniel Eberhard Baring, ed. by Eberhard Johann Baring, contrib. by Jean Mabillon, Burkhard Gotthelf Struve, Johann Wilhelm von Goebel, Daniel von Papenbroeck, Johann Nikolaus Hertuis, Thomas Ruddiman, Johann Gottlieb Krause, and Johann Wilhelm Waldschmidt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Foul Play (based on an undated Grolier Society edition, with additional illustrations), by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.