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• A concise and descriptive catalogue of all the natural and artificial curiosities in the museum of W.H. Yate, Esq. at Bromesberrow-Place near Glocester : being the extensive and valuable collection of the late Dr. Greene, of Lichfield, with many additions, collected by the present proprietor. (Printed by R. Raikes, and sold by Washbourn, Hough, Roberts, and Bullock, Glocester, and at Broomesberrow Place, 1801), by Robert Raikes, J. Tovey, Richard Greene, and Walter Honywood Yate (page images at HathiTrust)

• Musaeum Regalis Societatis (Printed by W. Rawlins, for the author, 1681), by Nehemiah Grew and Royal Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects : and with distinct explanations of each figure (Printed by I. Moore, for the authors ..., 1778), by Jan van Rymsdyk, Andreas van Rymsdyk, and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Mvsaevm Septalianvm Manfredi Septalae patritii Mediolanensis indvstrioso labore constructvm (Typis filiorum qd. Elisei Violae, 1664), by Paolo Maria Terzago and Figliuoli di Eliseo Viola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breve quadro descrittivo della nascente raccolta-Sozzi in Bergamo (Bergamo : Dalla Stamperia Mazzoleni, MDCCCXL [1840], 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recensio specialis omnium codicum manuscriptorum graecorum (Typis Leopoldi Voigt, & Joachimi Balthasaris Endteri, 1690), by Daniel de Nessel, Joachim Balthasar Endter, Leopold Voigt, Franciscus van der Steen, Mathias van Somer, Johann Sigmund Schott, Nicolas de Hoey, Nikolaus Hautt, and Peter Lambeck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliothecae appendix, sive, Catalogus apparatus curiosorum artificialium et naturalium subjunctis experimentis a possessore editus in usum praelectionum academicarum experimentalium mathematico-physico-curiosarum (In Academia Julia sumtibus auctoris, 1735), by Heinrich Johann Bytemeister, Anton August Beck, and Johann Georg Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogus rerum tam naturalium, quam artificialium (Literis reg. cels. typogr. Joachim Schmetgen, 1696), by Oliger Jacobaeus, Denmark Copenhagen, Joachim Schmetgen, Benedict Grothschiling, and Johann Erichsonig (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inventario semplice di tvtte le materie esattamente descritte che si trovano nel mvseo Cospiano (Per Giacomo Monti, 1680), by Giacomo Monti and Lorenzo Legati (page images at HathiTrust)

• A catalogue of all the cheifest [sic] rarities in the publick theater and anatomie-hall of the University of Leyden, by Gerrard Blancken, which are so set in order that all may easily bee found in their places. (Printed in Leyden : by Hubert vander Boxe, 1695), by Frans Schuyl and Corn. à Maersche, ed. by Gerard Blancken (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Beschreibung verschiedener Seltenheiten der Natur, der Kunst u. des Alterthums, welche in dem Moversschen Cabinet zu Hamburg einige Aufmerksamkeit und Betrachtung verdienen : in zween Theilen verfertiget und herausgegeben von einem Freunde der Natur-Historie. (Gedruckt von Jeremias Conrad Piscator, E. Hochedl. und Hochw. Raths Buchdr., 1770), by Ernst Christoph Schultz, Jeremias Conrad Piscator, Peter Sieberg, and Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Breve quadro descrittivo della nascente raccolta-Sozzi in Bergamo (Bergamo : Dalla Stamperia Mazzoleni, MDCCCXL [1840], 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogus antiquarum et novarum rerum ex longe dissitis terrarum oris, quarum visendarum copia Lugduni in Batavis in Anatomia Publica, quae curiosis spectatoribus monstrantur (Typis Huberti vander Boxe, 1695), by Gerard Blancken and Huybert van der Boxe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historia rerum rariorum (Apud Iohannem Elsevirium, 1655), by Ole Worm, Daniel Elzevir, Jean Elzevir, Carel van Mander, G. Wingendorp, and Willum Worm (page images at HathiTrust)

• Verzeichnüs derer Sachen, welche sich in denen Schrancken des Wohl-Seel Herrn Graffen Hrn. Christian Dannesckiolds nachgelassener Raritaeten-Kammern befinden. (Gedruckt in Ihro Königl. Majesstäts privilegirten Buchdruckerey, 1731) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Amboinsche rariteitkamer of eene bescryvinge van allerhande schaalvisschen : benevens de voornaamste hoorntjes en schulpen, als ook zommige mineraalen, gesteenten, enz. (Gedrukt by François Halma, boekverkoper in Konstantijn den Grooten, 1705), by Georg Eberhard Rumpf, Maria Sibylla Merian, François Halma, Heer Sipman, Jan Goeree, and Jacob de Later (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Conchylien im Cabinette des Herrn Erbprinzen von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt : mit zwölf Kupfern. (Auf kosten des Verfassers, mit Bergmannschen Schriften, 1786), by Christopher Ludwig Kämmerer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue raisonné de coquilles, insectes, plantes, marines, et autres curiosités naturelles (Chez Flahault ... [et] Prault fils ..., 1736), by E. F. Gersaint and Claude Duflos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museographia (Bey Michael Hubert, 1727), by Kaspar Friedrich Jencquel, Bartholomäus Strahowsky, and Johann Kanold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inscriptiones, vel, Tituli theatri amplissimi, complectentis rerum universitatis singularas materias et imagines eximias (Ex officina Adami Berg typographi, 1565), by Samuel Quicchelberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anweisung zur Reiseklugheit für junge Gelehrte (Bei Johann Adam Creutz, Buchhändler, 1788), by Johann David Köhler, Johann Adam Creutz, and Johann Friedrich August Kinderling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Metallotheca (Ex officina Jo. Mariae Salvioni, Romani, in Archigymnasio Sapientiae, 1717), by Michele Mercati, Pietro Assalti, Jakob Frey, Benoît Farjat, Maximilian Joseph Limpach, Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Vincenzo Franceschini, Louis Gomier, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, and Giovanni Maria Lancisi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Compendio de la vida de Manfredo Settala : con la descripcion de su celeberrima galeria, y la traduccion de la oracion funebre, que se dixo en sus exequias ; sale à luz debajo de la proteccion de don Ioseph de Leyza Eraso ... (En el real y ducal palacio por Marco Antonio Pandulfo Malatesta ..., 1681), by Alfonso Bernardo de Yrissari, Marc'Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta, Cesare Fiori, Giovanni Battista Bonacina, and Giovanni Battista Pastorini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mvseo, ò Galeria, adunata dal sapere e dallo studio (Per li figliuoli del qd. Eliseo Viola, 1666), by Paolo Maria Terzago, Cesare Fiori, Pietro Francesco Scarabelli, Luigi Scaramuccia, Giovanni Battista Bonacina, and Figliuoli di Eliseo Viola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mvsaevm Septalianvm Manfredi Septalae patritii Mediolanensis indvstrioso labore constructvm (Typis filiorum qd. Elisei Violae, 1664), by Paolo Maria Terzago and Figliuoli di Eliseo Viola (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum : cujus magnum antiquariae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem ex legato Alphonsi Donini, S.P.Q.R., a secretis, munificâ liberalitate relictum (Ex Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1678), by Collegio romano. Museo, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Alphonsus Doninus, Georgius de Sepibus, and Athanasius Kircher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Remarques sur la pièce antique de bronze : trouvée depuis quelques années aux environs de Rome, & proposée ensuite aux curieux de l'antiquité, pour tâcher d'en découvrir l'usage : avec une description de la chambre des raretez de l'auteur (Chez Abraham Wolfgang ..., 1694), by Nicolas Chevalier, Abraham Wolfgang, and Jan Van Vianen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essai sur la Bibliotheque et le Cabinet de curiosités et d'histoire naturelle de l'Académie des sciences de Saint Petersbourg (De l'Imprimerie privilegiée de Weitbrecht & Schnoor, 1776), by Johann Vollrath Bacmeister (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Sammelwessens (Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1908), by Julius Schlosser (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kurze Beschreibung des Naturalienkabinets in Dresden ([s.n.], 1805), by Christian Gottlieb Pötzsch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Verzeichniss eines grossen Kunst- und Naturalien-Cabinets von William Thompson, wohnhaft in Hamburg in der Admiralitaets-Strasse, No. 217. (Gedruckt bey Gottlieb Friedrich Schniebes, 1794), by William Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Description du cabinet de Monsieur Paul de Praun a Nuremberg (Chez Jean Théophile Schneider, 1797), by Christoph Gottlieb von Murr, Johann Nussbiegel, and Paul Praun (page images at HathiTrust)

• Idea generale del museo del fu abate Galiani. (s.n., 1791) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discorso intorno ai principali oggetti naturali che si conservano nel museo del principe Bonaparte. (Roma : Tipographia delle belle arti, 1845., 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theatrum naturae mirandum (Gedrukt by François Halma ..., 1706), by Levinus Vincent, Andries van Buysen, and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Confessions of a Collector, by William Carew Hazlitt (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Confessions of a Collector, by William Carew Hazlitt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bibliomania in the Middle Ages, by F. Somner Merryweather (Gutenberg ebook)

• Official fine art, historical and general catalogue ([London] : Spottiswoode & Co., [1900], 1900), by England) Woman's International Exhibition (1900 : London, Imre Kiralfy, and Spottiswoode & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• An illustrated catalogue of old and rare books, for sale at prices affixed. (Pickering & Chatto, 1899), by Pickering & Chatto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalgoue of rare and valuable books (G. Norman and son, 1899), by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• English literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, being a selection of first and early editions of the works of esteemed authors and book illustrators and books on sports and pastimes (Maggs Bros., 1927), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
• English literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, being a selection of first and early editions of the works of esteemed authors and book illustrators and books on sports and pastimes (Maggs Bros., 1925), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
• French literature, including finely illustrated books, of the 17th-20th centuries and armorial bindings. (Maggs Bros., 1920), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bernard Quaritch ... catalogue (Bernard Quaritch Ltd., in the 19th century), by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books (Payne and Foss., in the 1st century), by Payne and Foss (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Complete collection of books and pamphlets begun in the year 1640. by the special command of King Charles I. of ever blessed memory, and continued to the happy restauration of the government and the coronation of King Charles II ([S.l. : s.n., 1685?]), by George Thomason (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter to the Dilettanti Society, respecting the obtention of certain matters essentially necessary for the improvement of public taste, and for accomplishing the original views of the Royal Academy of Great-Britain (Printed for J. Walker ..., 1799), by James Barry and England) Society of Dilettanti (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les beaux-arts en Angleterre : ouvrage dans lequel on trouve des notices raisonnées des principaux monumens d'architecture anciens et modernes, et des ouvrages remarquables de peinture et sculpture qui sont dans les collections publiques et particulières de Londres, d'Oxford, et dans les châteaux et maisons de campagne ... : ouvrage propre à servir de guide aux amateurs qui voyagent en Angleterre (F. Buisson, 1807), by James Dallaway and A. L. Millin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ABC of collecting old English pottery (S. Paul, 1910), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust)

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