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• New and complete book of cyphers (Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles ..., 1777), by John Lockington and Carington Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ancient stone crosses of Dartmoor and its borderland (J. G. Commin, 1902), by William Crossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient stone crosses of England (Virtue, Spalding, 1875), by Alfred Rimmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old stone crosses of Dorset (Printed at the Chiswick press and sold by Henry Ling, Dorchester, 1906), by Alfred Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient stone crosses of Dartmoor and its borderland (J. G. Crommin, 1902), by William Crossing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The arts in early England (J. Murray, 1903), by G. Baldwin Brown, Eric Hyde Lord Sexton, and Adam Blyth Webster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The arts in early England (E.P. Dutton, 1915), by G. Baldwin Brown and A. Blyth Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Crosses and Lychgates, by Aymer Vallance (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Ruskin cross at Coniston (W. Holmes, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ancient crosses, and other antiquities in the east of Cornwall (Simpkin, Marshall, 1858), by J. T. Blight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Cornish crosses (J. Pollard, 1896), by Arthur G. Langdon and J. Romilly Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of ancient Cornish crosses, fonts, etc. (Cleaver, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient crosses, and other antiquities in the west of Cornwall (Simpkin, Marshall, 1856), by J. T. Blight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on the old crosses of Gloucestershire (Longmans, Green, 1868), by Charles Pooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The stone crosses of the county of Northampton. (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd. [etc.,etc.], 1901), by Christopher Alexander Markham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An historical and descriptive account of the old stone crosses of Somerset (Longmans, Green, 1877), by Charles Pooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861 (H. Holt and company, 1914), by Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient cross shafts at Bewcastle and Ruthwell (University press, 1916), by George Forrest Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The runic roods of Ruthwell and Bewcastle, with a short history of the cross and crucifix in Scotland (J. Smith & son, ltd., 1914), by James King Hewison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of Bewcastle Cross; the mystery of Alcfrith and the myths of Maughan. (J. Smith, 1923), by James King Hewison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ancient cross shafts at Bewcastle and Ruthwell : enlarged from the Rede lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 20 May 1916 (University Press, 1916), by G. F. Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Bewcastle cross (Printed for the author, 1913), by Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses (Yale university press, 1912), by Albert S. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cloisters Cross: Its Art and Meaning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1994), by Elizabeth C. Parker and Charles T. Little (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Emblems, for the entertainment and improvement of youth : containing hieroglyphical and enigmatical devices, relating to all parts and stations of life : together with explanations and proverbs in French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them and translated into English : the whole curiously engrav'd on 62 copper plates. (Sold by R. Ware at the Bible and Sun in Warwick Lane at Amen Corner, 1735), by Richard Ware (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, Quickened With Metricall Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine (London: Printed by A. M. for H. Taunton, 1635), by George Wither (page images at Penn State)
• Minerva Britanna or A garden of heroical devises (Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa: Dight, 1612), by Henry Peacham and Walter Dight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblems, divine and moral (Printed at the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham ;, 1818), by Francis Quarles, Robert Jennings, Charles Whittingham, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616, by Henry Green (Gutenberg ebook)

• Choice of Emblemes (without introductory materials or sidenotes), by Geffrey Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
• A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises (London: F. Raphelengius, 1586), by Geffrey Whitney (page images at Penn State)

• Considerations of Drexelivs upon eternity (Printed for Richard Chiswell, and are to be sold by Richard Parker, at the Sign of the Vnicorn, under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill, 1689), by Jeremias Drexel, Richard Parker, Ralph Winterton, and Richard Chiswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hieroglyphicks (Printed for M[atthew] G[illyflower] and W[illiam] F[reeman] and to be sold by Roger Clavel at the Peacock in Fleetstreet, and Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey, 1696), by Francis Quarles, Andrew Bell, William Freeman, and Matthew Gilliflower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famulenter prioribus (Printed by Richard Cotes, 1648), by Mildmay Fane Westmorland and Richard Cotes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Famulenter prioribus (Printed by Richard Cotes, 1648), by Mildmay Fane Westmorland and Richard Cotes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The law of England touching His Majesties four principal seals viz. the Great Seal, the Privy Seal, the Exchequer Seal, and the Signet : also of those grand officers to whose custody these seals are committed. (London : Printed and are to be sold by Dan. Browne, 1696), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A short history of the Tower of London : with a list of the interesting curiosities contained in the armories and regalia (Printed by J. Wheeler :, 1845), by Joseph Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imperial state crown and its jewels. (Printed for private circulation, 1861), by William Pole and James Tennant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two letters sent from Amsterdam, and read in both Houses of Parliament the 11. of the present Iune Discovering to the Parliament, what courses are there taken for the raising of ammunition to be sent to the North: with the list of the particulars of the ammunition. (London : Printed for Joseph Hunscott and Iohn Wright, 1642), by England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)
• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Cross of the Magi: An Unveiling of the Greatest of All the Ancient Mysteries (New York: Roger Bros.; London : L.N. Fowler, 1912), by Frank C. Higgins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Symbol signs : the development of passenger/pedestrian oriented symbols for use in transportation-related facilities ([Washington, D.C.] : Department of Transportation, Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Consumer Affairs, Office of Facilities, 1974., 1974), by American Institute of Graphic Arts and United States. Transportation Programs Bureau. Office of Facilitation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario illustrato dei simboli; simboli, emblemi, attributi allegorie, immagini degli dei, ecc. (U. Hoepli, 1922), by Giuseppe Ronchetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to codes and signals; international flag code, secret ciphers, weather signals, Morse code, sign language, etc., with flags of all nations (Whitman publishing company, 1942), by Gordon A. J. Petersen and Marshall McClintock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abbreviations dictionary : abbreviations, contractions, signs & symbols defined; including the Greek alphabet, international civil aircraft markings, numbered abbreviations, proofreader's marks, punctuation and diacritical marks, radio alphabet, Roman numerals, ship's bell time signals, signs and symbols (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958), by Ralph De Sola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthology of pattern (W. Helburn, 1949), by Natalie Hays Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianity and symoblism. (Westminster Press, 1955), by F. W. Dillistone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names (Trübner, 1872), by Thomas Inman (page images at HathiTrust)
• American signs and symbols [catalog of an exhibition at the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, Taft Museum] December 3 through January 7, 1964. ([Cincinnati?, 1963), by Taft Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Planning, design, fabrication, procurement, installation, and maintenance of signs for outdoor public use areas (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 2002), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planning, designing, fabricating, procuring, installing, and maintaining signs for outdoor public use areas (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 2006), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diagrammatic guide signs for use on controlled access highways. Volume III. Traffic engineering evaluation of diagrammatic guide signs. Part 3. Synthesis and conclusions. Final report. (1972), by Gretchen Kolsrud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diagrammatic guide signs for use on controlled access highways. Volume III. Traffic engineering evaluation of diagrammatic guide signs. Appendixes A, B, and C to Part 2. Final report. (1972), by J. H. Sanders, M. J. Ganslaw, and Gretchen Kolsrud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perceptual factors and meanings of symbolic information elements. Volume I, executive summary. (1977), by King M. Roberts, Ernest W. Lareau, and Daniel Welch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perceptual factors and meanings of symbolic information elements. Volume II, technical report. (1977), by King M. Roberts, Ernest W. Lareau, and Daniel Welch (page images at HathiTrust)
• ""Star of Life" - emergency medical care symbol: background, specifications, and criteria. (1979) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbol signs 2. The development of passenger/pedestrian oriented symbols for use in transportation-related facilities. Final report. (Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1979) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emergency Medical Services - highway sign evaluation. Final report. (1980), by M. J. Smith and Anita S. Ware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Age effects on symbol sign recognition. Final report. (1980), by R. Wade Allen, Zareh Parseghian, and P. G. Van Valkenburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternative sign sequences for work zones on rural highways. Executive summary. Final report. (1981), by R. W. Lyles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolic sign for oversized-truck route signs. Final report. (1984), by J. Walker, Elizabeth Alicandri, and K. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evaluation of candidate symbolic routing signs for trucks carrying hazardous cargo. Final report. (1985), by J. Walker, Elizabeth Alicandri, and K. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motorists' comprehension of regulatory, warning, and symbol signs. Volume I: executive summary. Final report. (1987), by Richard L. Knoblauch and Martin Pietrucha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ramp signing for trucks. Final report. (1993), by Richard L. Knoblauch and Marsha Nitzburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recommendations to improve driver education on traffic control devices. (1999), by Dale L. Picha, Garry L. Ford, and Angelia H. Parham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Driver behavior characteristics of teenage drivers and older drivers. (1999), by Angelia H. Parham and Garry L. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• In-vehicle display icons and other information elements: literature review. (Federal Highway Administration, McLean, Va., 1998), by Cher Carney, John L. Campbell, and Elizabeth A. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Updating educational materials on traffic control devices. (2000), by Angelia H. Parham, Garry L. Ford, and S. Renee Hulett (page images at HathiTrust)
• General development process for in-vehicle icons. (2003) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [In-vehicle display icons and other information elements: volume 1: guidelines] (2004), by John L. Campbell, J. B. Richman, Cher Carney, and J. D. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origins of Pictish symbolism : with notes on the sun boar and a new reading of the Newton inscriptions (D. Douglas, 1893), by James Carnegie Southesk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes généraux de la symbolique des religions (Librairie Fischbacher, 1915), by Georges Lanoë-Villène (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Interpretive design. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Region, 1982), by United States. Forest Service. Intermountain Region (page images at HathiTrust)
• Style manual (The Zoo, 1977), by Minnesota Zoological Garden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Steincultus in der Schweiz. Sprachlich, mythologisch und historisch. ([Aarau, 1864), by Ernst Ludwig Rochholz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Signs of life; a pictorial dictionary of symbols. (A. Sivas, 1957), by Harry M. Raphaelian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decas fabularum : humani generis sortem, mores, ingenium, varia studia, inventa atq. ... (sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri, 1609), by Joannes Walch and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Herz des Menschen : ein Tempel Gottes oder eine Werkstätte des Satans. (Gustav S. Peters, 1831), by Johannes Gossner and Philipp Friedrich Pöschel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des signes envisagés relativement a leur influence sur la formation des idées. (Baudouin, Imp. de l'Institut national, 1800), by Pierre Prevost (page images at HathiTrust)
• El sello de Salomón (un regalo de los dises) (Impr. y Litografía de J. Palacios, 1907), by Rafael Urbano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origins of Pictish symbolism : with notes on the sun boar and a new reading of the Newton inscriptions (Llanerch, 1999), by James Carnegie Southesk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antiquarische Streifzüge. (Waisenhaus, 1868), by Arnold Steudener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electorum symbolorum & parabolarum historicarum syntagmata (Apud Ioannem Kinckium, 1631), by Nicolas Caussin and Horapollo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speculum imaginum veritatis occultæ : exhibens symbola, emblemata, hieroglyphica, ænigmata, omnitam materiæ, quam formæ varietate; exemplis simul, ac præceptis illustratum (Sumptibus viduæ, & hæredum Joannis Antonii Kinchii, 1681), by Jakob Masen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophia imaginum id est sylloge symbolorum amplissima (Prostant apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1695), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art d s'écrire en secret absolu avec les chiffres (Chez Tous les Libraires, 1900), by Emile Delage and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les écritures secrètes dévoilés : études et problèms cryptographiques (E. Dentu, 1874), by Charles Joliet and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Écritures secrètes (J. Arnous de Rivière, 1881), by Edme Simonot and George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbola heroica m. Claudii Paradini, Belliiocensis canonici, et d. Gabrielis Symeonis (Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Christophorvm Raphelengivm ..., 1600), by Claude Paradin, Joannes Gubernator, and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istorii͡a chervonoho prapora (Nakladom Robochoho naroda, 1917), by George B. Benham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chiffres usités en temps double clef (Librairie militaire de L. Baudoin et Cie, 1883), by Aug. Kerckhoffs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Det saakaldte hagekors's anvendelse og betydning i oldtiden. Avec un résumé français. (B. Lunos bogtrykkeri, 1877), by Ludvig Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ta ki, the svastika, and the cross in America (Press of MacCalla & Co., 1889), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revised and improved edition of the telegraphic cipher code : especially adapted to the cotton trade (Shepperson Pub., 1920), by Alfred B. Shepperson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Templar's chart (Published and sold by the author, 1821), by Jeremy L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anleitung zu der Darstellung in allegorischen Bildern (Leipzig : Magazin für Industrie und Literatur, 1834., 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My mother's gentle,gentle prayer she taught me when a simple boy (Lee & Walker, 1869), by J. L. Woolsey and Wm. C. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de cryptographie (Librairie Félix Alcan, 1925), by André Lange and E. A. Soudart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specifications for world aeronautical charts scale 1:1,000,000 code WAC. (Washington, D.C. : Army Air Forces, Aeronautical Chart Service, [1946], 1946), by United States. Aeronautical Chart and Information Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparison of four methods of encoding elevation information with complex line-inclination symbols (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1956., 1956), by David B. Learner, Earl A. Allusi, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, and Ohio State University. Research Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standardization of symbols and units for environmental research (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1966., 1966), by W. C. Kaufman and Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbols : a language arts introduction to mathematics and science (Washington University, 1960), by Alexander Calandra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philosophie occulte ... (G. Ballière, 1862), by Eliphas Lévi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Cryptographie, ou, l'art d'écrire en chiffres (in French), by P. L. Jacob (Gutenberg ebook)

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