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• The children of Abrahams faith who are blessed, being found in Abraham's practise of burying their dead in their own purchased burying places, are not to be reproved: but therein are justified in the sight of God, and the practice of holy men in former ages. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1663), by Francis Gawler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Civitas Oxon. A bill of all the burials from Friday the VIth of August to Satterday the XIVth anno Dom. 1641. ([Oxford : s.n., 1641]), by Oxford (England : City) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The orders of vestry made and agreed unto in the year of our Lord 1677. of the rates payable for burials by the inhabitants in the parish of St. Buttolph without Aldgate, London. (London : printed by J. How, for William Sheepey, at the Bible and Crown in the Minories, [1677]), by London Saint Botolph (Aldgate (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Act touching marriages and the registering thereof, and also touching births and burials. (Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1653), by England and Wales, Henry Scobell, John Field, and England and Wales Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the garden of Cyrus, or the quincunciall, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne D. of Physick. (London, : Printed for Hen. Brome at the signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane., 1658), by Thomas Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)
• The London burial grounds. Notes on their history from the earliest times to the present day ... (Macmillan and co., 1896), by Basil Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated Guide to Kensal Green Cemetery (C. & E. Layton, 1873), by William Justyne (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)
• Bunhill memorials : sacred reminiscences of three hundred ministers and other persons of note, who are buried in Bunhill fields, of every denomination ; with the inscriptions on their tombs and gravestones, and other historical information respecting them, from authentic sources. (©[date], 1848), by J. A. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London, by John Simon (Gutenberg ebook)

• The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Isabella M. Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Design for a chapel & catacombs, with entrance gates & lodges, proposed to be erected at Kensall Green, for the General Cemetery Company. (Printed by C. Hullmandel, 1832), by Henry Edward Kendall and Kensal Green Cemetery. London (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)
• The burials bill : correspondence between the Rev. T. J. Hughes, M.A., rector of Llanbedr, and Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P. ; with supplementary remarks. Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (Printed and published by J. Vaughan, "Guardian" office, 1872), by T. J. Hughes and George Osborne Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burials question / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (W. Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W.C., 1875), by Francis Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A contribution to the settlement of the burials question / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (P. S. King, King Street, Westminster ;, 1877), by Arthur Charles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Osborne Morgan's burials bill : speech of the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., in the House of Commons, March 26, 1873, on moving the rejection of the bill on its second reading. Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Printed for the Church Defence Institution, 1873), by Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new burials act : what it does, and what it does not do, containing a short summary of the provisions of the act and the text of the act itself / Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (The Church Defence Institution, 9, Bridge Street, Westminster, 1880), by Alfred Theophilus Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act touching marriages and the registring thereof, and also touching births and burials (London : Printed by Iohn Field ..., 1653), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Good-wives lamentation, or, The womens complaint on the account of their being to be buried in woollen. (London : Printed for L.C., 1678) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• History of the Bunhill Fields burial ground, with some of the principal inscriptions ... (The Corporation, 1887), by City of London (England). Corporation. City Lands Committee and Charles Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cambridge American Cemetery and memorial. (American Battle Monuments Commission, 1985), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romano-British Cemeteries at Cirencester (Cirencester, UK: Cirencester Excavation Committee, Corinium Museum, 1982), by Alan McWhirr, Linda Viner, and Calvin Wells (PDF at Cotswold Archaeology)

• Fairford graves. (J. H. Parker, 1852), by William Michael Wylie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The form of consecration of a church or chappel.: And of the place of Christian buriall. / Exemplified by the R.R.F. in God, Lancelot late lord-bishop of Winchester, in the consecration of the Chappel of Jesus in the foresaid diocess. (London : Sold by T. Garthwait at the little North-door of S. Pauls, 1659), by Lancelot Andrewes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Some account of Redcliffe Church, Bristol (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown :, 1813), by John Britton, George Sidney Shepherd, Charles Wild, Frederick Mackenzie, S. Rawle, John Roffe, John Le Keux, and Thomas Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them, Considered in Relation to Their Possible Bearing on His Portraiture, by C. M. Ingleby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Certain aboriginal mounds of the Georgia coast. (P.C. Stockhausen, 1897), by Clarence B. Moore and Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voices from the tombs. (London ; Seeley ; Jackson ; and Halliday [etc.], 1858), by st--Passion--Meditations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urne-buriall (Riverside Press, 1907), by Thomas Browne, Bruce Rogers, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The belief in immortality and the worship of the dead (Macmillan, 1913), by James George Frazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient burial mounds of Japan. (Washington, 1892), by Romyn Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• THe burial customs of the ancient Greeks. (Roche & Hawkins, 1891), by Frank Pierrepont Graves (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)
• Report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain. A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. Made at the request of Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home department (Printed by W. Clowes and sons for H. M. Stationery off., 1843), by Edwin Chadwick, Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners, and Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth-burial and cremation : the history of earth-burial with its attendant evils, and the advantages offered by cremation (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by Augustus Gardiner Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burial customs of ancient Egypt as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom. (A Constable & co., ltd., 1907), by John Garstang and University of Liverpool. Institute of Archaeology (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)
• Der grabbau (G. Müller, 1923), by Ernst Fuhrmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Funeral management and costs: a world-survey of burial and cremation (The University of Chicago press, 1921), by Quincey Lamartine Dowd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, custom and social institutions connected therewith. (E. J. Brill, 1892), by J. J. M. de Groot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pokhorony u i͡akutov v si͡evernoĭ chasti I͡Akutskoĭ oblasti (Tip. K.Ī. Viktovskoĭ, 1890), by V. L. Priklonskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Begräbnisarten der Amerikaner und Nordostasiaten. (Hartung, 1894), by Konrad Theodor Preuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blame of kirk-buriall, tending to perswade cemiteriall civilitie. (W. Pickering; [etc., etc.], 1833), by William Birnie (page images at HathiTrust)
• De sepulturae denegatione. (Jenae, 1736), by Reinholdus Fridericus Sahme (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)
• Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire, and the sepulchral usages of its inhabitants, from the most remote ages to the reformation. (J. R. Smith, 1848), by Thomas Bateman and Stephen Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epitaphiana; or, The curiosities of churchyard literature; being a miscellaneous collection of epitaphs (Tinsley, 1873), by William Fairley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general volume of epitaphs, : original and selected: with a large selection of striking and appropriate texts of Scripture, and an historical and moral essay, on the subject. (J.W. Parker ..., 1840), by Benjamin Richings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth to earth; a plea for a change of system in our burial of the dead. (Macmillan, 1875), by Francis Seymour Haden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burial customs of ancient Egypt as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom; being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hassan during 1902-3-4 (A. Constable & co., ltd., 1907), by John Garstang and University of Liverpool. Institute of Archaeology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concerning return of bodies of American soldiers who died abroad. (Govt. Print. Off., 1920), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leif's house in Vineland. (Damrell and Upham, 1893), by Eben Norton Horsford and Cornelia Horsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen de la question du refus de la sépulture ecclésiastique dans ses rapports avec la discipline de l'église catholique et le droit public de la France. (P. Durand et cie, etc., etc., 1840), by J. M. J. and A. M. D. G. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and modern modes of burial ([Albuquerque? N.M., 1911), by Mendel Silber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cemetery internment: (Longman, Orme, Brow, Green, and Longmans, 1840), by George Collison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The graves registration service in World War II (Historical Section, Office of the Quartermaster General :, 1951), by Edward Steere and United States. Office of the Quartermaster General. Historical Section (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)
• Recherches historiques et critiques sur la morgue (Adolphe Delahays, 1860), by Firmin Maillard (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'église et l'état à propos de la question des sépultures; réponse à J.B. Malou, évêque de Bruges. (A. Decq, 1860), by Th Flechet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mort apparente et inhumations prématurées (Les Amis de Gustave Le Bon, 1900), by Gustave Le Bon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cremation and other modes of sepulture (J. b. Lippincott & Co., 1884), by R. E. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disposal of the dead by land, by water or by fire ; which? : being the last lecture of the course on hygiene and public health delivered to the theological classes in the session of 1874-75 (s.n.], 1875), by George A. Baynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre pastorale concernant la sépultre de Joseph Guibord membre de l'Institut Canadien (s.n., 1875), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• On certain burial customs as illustrative of the primitive theory of the soul. (Harrison & Sons, 1885), by James George Frazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Orient und Europa, Einfluss der orientalischen Cultur auf Europa bis zur Mitte des letzten Jahrtausends v. Chr. (Stockholm, 1899), by Oscar Montelius, J. Mestorf, and historie och antikvitets akademien Kungl. Vitterhets (page images at HathiTrust)
• Funérailles et sépultures de la Rome païenne. Des sépultures et de la liberté des funérailles en droit civil. (1885), by Raoul Audibert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die katakomben von San Gennaro dei Poveri in Neapel : eine kunsthistorische Studie (Costenoble, 1877), by Victor Schultze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die religiösen motive der totenbestattung bei den verschiedenen völkern. [Progr.] (Berlin, 1884), by E. Wasmansdorff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria sobre el derecho funerario en las XII tablas, leida en la real Academia de buenas letras de Barcelona, en sesión de 5 de abril de 1886. ([Barcelona, 1886), by Celestino Barallat y Falguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ananʹinskīĭ mogilʹnik Vi︠a︡tskoĭ gubernīi, blizʹ goroda Elaburgi (V Sinodalʹnoĭ tip., 1871), by Kapiton Ivanovich Nevostruev (page images at HathiTrust)
• God's acre beautiful; or, The cemeteries of the future (The Garden office, 1880), by W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folkens tro om sina döda (Klemmings antiqvariat, 1874), by Hans Hildebrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die todtenbestattungen der Bibel und die feuerbestattung. (E. Schweizerbart, 1893), by Friedrich Küchenmeister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le reputatrici in Sicilia nell' età di mezzo e moderna; ricerche storiche. (tip. editrice Giannone e Lamantia, 1886), by Salvatore Salomone-Marino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prähistorische Ansiedelungen und Begräbnissstätten in Krain. (K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1880), by Carl Deschmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Published with a subvention from the Dutch colonial government. (E.J. Brill, 1892), by J. J. M. de Groot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why modern cremation should replace earth-burial : an exposé of the dangers caused by inhumation and an explanation of the superior merits of incineration upon new and scientific principles (Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, 1885), by Max Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der feuerbestattung und ihre geschichtliche entwicklung von der urzeit bis zur gegenwart; technische und künstlerische anforderungen an neuzeitliche krematorien und die damit zusammenhängenden anlagen (C. Scholtze, 1911), by E. Beutinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoire sur la question des refus de sépulture ecclésiastique. (Imp. d'A. Le Clere et cie, 1847), by F. Lauras and Henri Léon Camusat de Riancey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rapport fait par les citoyens Hallé, Desessartz Toulongen, [and others] chargés par l'Institut national des sciences et arts, de l'examen des mémoires envoyés au concours proposé par le gouvernement, sur les questions relatives aux cérémonies funéraires et aux lieux des sépultures. (de l'Imp. d'A. Bailleul, 1808), by Institut de France, François Emmanuel de Toulongeon, Jean Charles Deśessartz, and J. N. Hallé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours qui a partagé le prix proposé par l'Institut national de France, au nom du gouvernement, et décerné le 15 vendémiaire an IX de la République Française, sur cette question: Quelles sont les cérémonies à faire pour les funérailles, et le réglement à adopter pour le lieu de la sépulture? (à l'Imp.-lib., an IX, 1800), by François-Valentin Mulot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rockland Cemetery illustrated : suggestions and associations connected with it and a brief statement of the superior advantages presented to those who desire beautiful resting places for their dead (A. D. F. Randolph, 1881), by William Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk (Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658), by Thomas Browne and Henry Brome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Norsemen at Herjolfsnes, an archaeological and historical study (1924), by Poul Nørlund and Annie Fausbøll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fra gravskikker til dødstro i nordisk stenalder (I kommisjon hos J. Dybwad, 1927), by Georg Sverdrup, Fridtjof Nansens fond til videnskabens fremme, and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bálfarir og jarðarfarir (Fjelagsprentsmiðjan, 1929), by Guðmundur Björnson, Gunnlaugur Claessen, and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Las momias guanches de Tenerife : Proyecto Cronos (Organismo Autónomo Complejo Insular de Museos y Centros, 1900), by Conrado Rodríguez Maffiotte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns., by Edwin Chadwick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3): The Belief Among the Polynesians, by James George Frazer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3): The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia, by James George Frazer (Gutenberg ebook)

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