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Private collections

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• Archaeology -- Private collections
• Art -- Private collections
• Art objects -- Private collections
• Art, European -- Private collections
• Books -- Private collections
• Bronze sculpture -- Private collections
• Bronzes -- Private collections
• Coins -- Private collections
• Coins, Ancient -- Private collections
• Coins, Byzantine -- Private collections
• Decorative arts -- Private collections
• Delftware -- Private collections
• Drawing -- Private collections
• Drawing, European -- Private collections
• Firearms -- Private collections
• Furniture -- Private collections
• Furniture, Colonial -- Private collections
• Gems -- Private collections
• Glass -- Private collections
• Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Private collections
• Lacquer and lacquering -- Private collections
• Metal-work -- Private collections
• Numismatics -- Private collections
• Painting -- Private collections
• Portrait miniatures -- Private collections
• Portraits -- Private collections
• Posters -- Private collections
• Pottery -- Private collections
• Pottery, English -- Private collections
• Sculpture -- Private collections
• Silverwork -- Private collections
• Slipware -- Private collections
• Terra-cotta sculpture -- Private collections

• Collections, Private

• Museum Wormianum: seu, Historia Rerum Rariorum (in Latin; Leiden: Elsevir, 1655), by Ole Worm (multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• Ancient Art From New York Private Collections: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 17, 1959-February 28, 1960 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1961), by Dietrich Von Bothmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Paintings and Historical Prints From the Middendorf Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Stuart P. Feld (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A Catalogue of the Collection of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, Deceas'd (auction catalogue with a frontispiece by Vertue, published 1742), by Mr. Cock, illust. by George Vertue
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Pièces de Choix de la Collection du Comte Grégoire Stroganoff (2 volumes in French; 1912), by Ludwig Pollak and Antonio Muñoz
  • Volume 1: page images at biblhertz.it
  • Volume 1: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 2: page images at biblhertz.it

• Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Maxwell K. Hearn (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman collection series, v1; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton: Princeton University Press, c1987), by John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, contrib. by Laurence B. Kanter (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Art of Island Southeast Asia: The Fred and Rita Richman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, contrib. by Paul Michael Taylor (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Flame and the Lotus: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Kronos Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1984), by Martin Lerner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Private Collection of Edgar Degas (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), by Ann Dumas, Colta Feller Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, and Gary Tinterow, trans. by Mark Polizzotti, contrib. by Françoise Cachin, Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Richard Kendall, Mari Kálmán Meller, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Rebecca A. Rabinow, Theodore Reff, and Barbara Stern Shapiro (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), by Colta Feller Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, and Julie A. Steiner, contrib. by Ann Dumas, Rebecca A. Rabinow, and Gary Tinterow (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Liechtenstein: The Princely Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), by John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1992), by Kate Ezra (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), by Barbara Brennan Ford and O. R. Impey (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and H. Holt, c1986), by Joan Vita Miller and Gary Marotta (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• From Attila to Charlemagne: Arts of the Early Medieval Period in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2000), ed. by Katharine Reynolds Brown, Dafydd Kidd, and Charles T. Little (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by James C. Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Catalogue de la Collection de Porcelaines Anciennes de la Chine et du Japon Appartenant à A. Revilliod de Muralt (in French; Geneva: C. Eggimann et Cie., 1901), by A. Revilliod de Muralt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, October 30, 1968 Through March 30, 1969 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968), by Carmen Gómez-Moreno (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Catalogue of a Cabinet of Gems, Cameos in Relief, and Other Engraved Stones, Ambers. Antique Pastes, Rings, etc., Collected in Europe, Asia, and Africa, by Maxwell Sommerville (Philadelphia: Sherman and Co., printers, 1875), by Maxwell Sommerville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques Throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the Year 1869-1885 (2 volumes; London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Charlotte Guest, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2018), ed. by Christopher D. M. Atkins (illustrated HTML with multimedia at philamuseum.org)

• Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Mary Weitzel Gibbons (HTML at UC Press)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques Throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the Year 1869-1885 (2 volumes; London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Charlotte Guest, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections (London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1931), by R. L. Hobson, Bernard Rackham, and William King (page images at CMU)
• A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain, Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson (London: Ellis and White, 1878), ed. by M. Marks, illust. by James McNeill Whistler and Henry Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2 volumes, 2000), by Leslie B. Grigsby, contrib. by Michael Archer, Margaret Macfarlane, and Jonathan Horne (searchable page images at Wisconsin)

• The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2 volumes, 2000), by Leslie B. Grigsby, contrib. by Michael Archer, Margaret Macfarlane, and Jonathan Horne (searchable page images at Wisconsin)

• Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection: Central Europe, the Netherlands, France, England (Robert Lehman Collection series v7; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1999), by Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Mary Tavener Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by Kenneth D. Keele and Jane Roberts (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1990), by Dale T. Johnson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshorn Collection (1962), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by H. Harvard Arnason, Abram Lerner, and Thomas M. Messer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1965), by John D. Cooney (page images at HathiTrust)

• European Terracottas from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), by James David Draper (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (2002), by John M. Weeks, contrib. by Andree Suplee, Larissa M. Kopytoff, and Kerry Moore (PDF here at Penn)

• Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University, ed. by Carol L. Lawton (illustrated HTML at lawrence.edu)

• Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University, ed. by Carol L. Lawton (illustrated HTML at lawrence.edu)

• The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2 volumes, 2000), by Leslie B. Grigsby, contrib. by Michael Archer, Margaret Macfarlane, and Jonathan Horne (searchable page images at Wisconsin)

• Firearms from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1985), by Stuart W. Pyhrr (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Catalogue of a Cabinet of Gems, Cameos in Relief, and Other Engraved Stones, Ambers. Antique Pastes, Rings, etc., Collected in Europe, Asia, and Africa, by Maxwell Sommerville (Philadelphia: Sherman and Co., printers, 1875), by Maxwell Sommerville (page images at HathiTrust)

• Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman collection series, v11: New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton: Princeton University Press, c1993), by Dwight P. Lanmon, contrib. by David Whitehouse (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Twenty Contemporary Painters From the Philippe Dotremont Collection, Brussels (1959), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Paul Fierens and James Johnson Sweeney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Katalog der Gemälde-Gallerie Seiner Erlaucht des Grafen Schönborn-Buchheim in Wien (in German; Vienna: Published for the owners, 1894) (multiple formats at Google)

• English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969), by Yvonne Hackenbroch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

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