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• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• American Art Auction Catalogues, 1785-1942: A Union List (New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Harold Lancour (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The United States of America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), contrib. by Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• 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)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece and Rome (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), by Joan R. Mertens and Maxwell Lincoln Anderson (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art: The Classical Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1963), by George Henry Chase and Cornelius C. Vermeule (page images at HathiTrust)

• French Paintings and Pastels, 1600-1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (online edition, 2014-present), ed. by Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (illustrated HTML at nelson-atkins.org)

• German Masters of the Nineteenth Century: Paintings and Drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), by Gert Schiff and Stephan Waetzoldt (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art: The Classical Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1963), by George Henry Chase and Cornelius C. Vermeule (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in Italy and Spain (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), contrib. by Frederick Hartt (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1966), by Vaughn Emerson Crawford, Prudence Oliver Harper, Oscar White Muscarella, and Beatrice Elizabeth Bodenstein (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art: The Classical Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1963), by George Henry Chase and Cornelius C. Vermeule (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in Italy and Spain (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), contrib. by Frederick Hartt (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Tibet Collection, Edward N. Crane Memorial (extracted from "The Newark Museum: Art, Science, Technology, History", volume 2, number 3, 1912), by Newark Museum Association
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Auction on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, February 5, 6 and 7, at 2.30 O'Clock, in the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 366 Fifth Ave., Near Thirty-Fourth St., New York (1903), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by James P. Silo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Sale on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, November 6, 7, 8, 1902, at 2.30 O'Clock, at Copley Hall, Boston (1902), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by Frank A. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (third edition; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958), by M. S. Dimand (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (third edition; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958), by M. S. Dimand (page images at HathiTrust)

• Allgemeiner Portrait-Katalog (2 volumes in 1, in German; Leipzig: Kunst-Comptoir, 1860), by Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Palace and Park, its Natural History and its Portrait Gallery, Together With a Description of the Pompeian Court, in the Undermentioned Guides: 1. Palalace and Park; 2. Portrait Gallery; 3. Ethnology and Natural History; 4. Extinct Animals; 5. Pompeian Court (5 guides in 1 volume; London: Crystal Palace Library, and Bradbury and Evans, 1854), by Samuel Phillips, R. G. Latham, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and George Scharf, illust. by Philip H. Delamotte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jacobus Houbraken et Son Oeuvre (in French; Arnhem: P. Gouda Quint, 1875), by Alexander Ver Huell (page images at HathiTrust)

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