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• Greek Altars, Origins and Typology, Including the Minoan-Mycenaean Offertory Apparatus: An Archaeological Study in the History of Religion (St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis University Press, 1949), by Constantine G. Yavis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norddeutsche Malerei : Studien zu Ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte im 15. Jahrhundert von Köln bis Hamburg. (E. A. Seemann (?), 1918), by Carl Georg Heise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church building and furnishing: the Church's way; a study in liturgical law. (University of Notre Dame Press, 1956), by J. B. O'Connell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some notable altars in the Church of England and the American Episcopal Church (The Macmillan Company, 1908), by John Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chancel of English Churches; the altar, reredos, lenten veil, communion table, altar rails, houseling cloth, piscina, credence, sedilia, aumbry, sacrament house, Easter sepulchre, squint, etc. (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916), by Francis Bond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Freiburger hochaltar kunstgeschichtlich gewürdigt (J. H. E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1904), by Fritz Baumgarten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die geheimnisse des Isenheimer altares in Colmar (Heitz, 1920), by Anton Groner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bildschnitzerfamilien des Hannoverschen und Hildesheimschen barock, mit 45 Lichtdrucktafeln und 32 Taxtabbildungen. (J. H. E. Heitz, 1924), by Friedrich Bleibaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der schnitzaltar in Mittelfranken im XV. jahrhundert (J. H. E. Heitz, 1928), by Charlotte Loose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siebenbürgische altäre (Heitz, 1916), by Victor Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album d'autels, chaires et retables dans les styles roman, ghotique, rococo, renaissance et moderne. (Altares, púlpitos y retablos) (Librería Parera, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman sacrificial altars; an archaeological study of monuments in Rome (The New era printing company, 1913), by Helen Cox Bowerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der christliche Altar in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung (Alte Meister Guenther Koch, 1924), by Joseph Braun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty pictures of Gothic altars (Longmans, Green, 1910), by Percy Dearmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altars according to the Code of canon law (Catholic University of America, 1927), by Nicholas Martin Bliley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der schwäbische Schnitzaltar (J.H.E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1907), by Marie Schuette (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Esmaltes españoles. Los frontales de Orense, San Miguel, "in Excelsis," Silos y Burgos. Apuntes reunidos. (F. Fé, 1909), by Enrique de Leguina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bayerische Altarbaukunst. (Georg Müller, 1923), by Richard Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mensa und confessio. Studien über den altar der altchristlichen liturgie (J.J. Lentner, 1906), by Franz Wieland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Altar des Kaiserfriedens, Ara Pacis Augustae (Veit & Comp., 1908), by V. Gardthausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The chancel and the altar (Mowbray, 1911), by Harold Charles King (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Descrizione del progetto di concorso per un altare da eseguirsi e regalarsi a sua Santità Leone XIII per la fausta ricorrenza del suo giubileo sacredotale. (s.n., 1886), by Leopoldo Massardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der christliche Altar und sein Schmuck : (Pustet, 1871), by Andreas Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritus benedictionis et impositionis primarii lapidis pro ecclesia aedificanda, consecrationis ecclesiae et altarium et benedictionis signi vel campanae (Pustet, 1887), by Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gothof. Voigti ... Thysiasteriologia, sive de altaribus veterum Christianorum liber postumus (sumtu Christiani Liebezeit, 1709), by Gottfried Voigt and Johann Albert Fabricius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The position of the celebrant at the Holy Communion : as ruled by the Purchas judgment : considered in a letter to the Lord Bishop of Winchester / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Rivingtons ..., 1875), by Morton Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gothic altars, Fifty pictures of (A.R. Mowbray & Co., 1922), by Percy Dearmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schnitzaltäre des 15. und des frühen 16. jahrhunderts in Pommern (Universitätsbuchdruckerei von G. Schade, 1914), by Ernst Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norddeutsche malerei : Studien zur ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte im 15. [i.e. fünfzehnten] Jahrhundert von Köln bis Hamburg (K. Wolff, 1918), by Carl Georg Heise (page images at HathiTrust)
• La pala d'oro della basilica di San Marco in Venezia (F. Ongania, 1887), by Giovanni Veludo (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. Mark's, Philadelphia; the silver altar, the work of Barkentin and Krall. ([W. Knott], 1907), by Pa.) St. Mark's Church (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Creations in ecclesiastical art, Daprato Statuary Company, Pontifical Institute of Christian Art, Chicago, New York; altars famous for quality of workmanship; studios; Chicago, Ill., and Pietrasanta, Italy. (Daprato Statuary Company, 1916), by Daprato Statuary Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Terracotta arulae (Bergamo, 1918), by E. Douglas Van Buren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dürers Dresdener Altar. (E. A. Seemann, 1904), by Ludwig Justi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Diversi ornamenti capricciosi per depositi o altari (Apresso al detto Soria., 1625), by Giovanni Battista Montano, Gio. Batta. Soria, Jérôme David, and Camillo Congio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabernacoli diversi nouamente inuentati ([Giovanni Battista Soria], 1628), by Giovanni Battista Montano, Jérôme David, and Gio. Batta. Soria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Degli altari e delle are degli antichi : dissertazione presentata alla celebre Accademia etrusca di Cortona (Appresso Andrea Bonducci, 1763), by Bartolommeo Mesny, Andrea Bonducci, and Accademia etrusca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragionamento di Orazio Orlandi romano sopra una ara antica posseduta da monsignore Antonio Casali governatore di Roma. ([A. Casaletti], 1772), by Orazio Orlandi, Arcangelo Casaletti, Franciszek Smuglewicz, and Carlo Antonini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Terracotta arulae ([s.n.], 1918), by E. Douglas Van Buren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice sur quelques autels Chrétiens du moyen-âge, avec description des lieux où ils ont été découverts. (Paris, 1890), by J. J. L. Bargès (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die schrift Mensa und confessio und Emil Dorsch; eine antwort. (München, 1908), by Franz Wieland and Emil Dorsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Retablos españoles ojivales y de la transición al renacimiento. Con fotoipias de los Sres. Hauser y Menet. (Imprenta de San Francisco de Sales, 1902), by Enrique Serrano Fatigati (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Disegni di vari altari e cappelle nelle chiese di Roma : con le loro facciate fianchi piante e misure de piu celebri architetti. (Date in luce da Gio. Giacomo de Rossi nella sua Stamparia in Roma alla Pace, 1713), by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Alessandro Specchi, Vincenzo Mariotti, Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Ciro Ferri, Pietro Antonio de Pitri, and Domenico de' Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norddeutsche Malerei : Studien zu ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte im 15. Jahrhundert von Köln bis Hamburg (1916), by Carl Georg Heise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Creations in ecclesiastical art : Daprato Altars (The Company, 1925), by Daprato Statuary Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altar und Altargrab der christlichen Kirchen im 4. Jahrhundert : Neue Studien über den Altar der altchristlichen Liturgie (J.C. Hirnrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1912), by Franz Wieland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modèles de marbrerie d'usage & de décor (Chez Bance ainé, in the 1830s), by Jean Baptiste Marie Bury (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse concerning the worship of God towards the holy table or altar (London : Printed by J.G. to be sold by James Good ..., 1682), by Stephen Penton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter of that most religious and pious prince K. Edward the sixth to Nicholas Ridley Bishop of London,: for the taking downe of altars, and setting up the table in the steed thereof, subscribed by nine of the said kings Privie Councell, together with the said kings six reasons for the same alteration; all which are set forth in the Ecclesiasticall history, containing the Acts and monuments of martyrs, written by M. John Fox, and may there be read in the life of that ever blessed king. (London : [s.n.], Printed 1641), by King of England Edward VI and England and Wales. Sovereign (1547-1553 : Edward VI) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter (against the erection of an altar) written Iune 29, 1635 to the Reverend Father Iohn L. Bishop of Chester / by Iohn Ley ... (London : Printed for George Lathum ..., 1641), by John Ley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Defensive doubts, hopes, and reasons, for refusall of the oath, imposed by the sixth canon of the late synod with important considerations, both for the penning and publishing of them at this time / by John Ley ... ; hereunto is added by the same author, a letter against the erection of an altar, written above five yeares agoe, and a case of conscience, touching the receiving of the sacrament, resolved. (London : Printed by R. Young, for G. Lathum ..., 1641), by John Ley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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