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• From the Collection of the Late William Randolph Hearst (public auction catalogue for Hearst's art collection; 1951), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected Art Objects from the William Randolph Hearst Collection, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children (auction catalog; New York: Hammer Galleries, 1941), by Hammer Galleries (PDF at inha.fr)

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

• The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools (final report to Library of Congress, 2006), by Karen Calhoun (PDF at loc.gov)

• Literary and Scholastic Texts of the First Millennium B.C. (v2 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c2005), ed. by Ira Spar and W. G. Lambert (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Private Archive Texts from the First Millennium B.C. (v3 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c2000), ed. by Ira Spar and Eva Von Dassow, contrib. by J. N. Postgate and Linda Bregstein (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C. (v1 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c1988), ed. by Ira Spar (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Lepidoptera of the Congo: Being a Systematic List of the Butterflies and Moths Collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, Together With Descriptions of Some Hitherto Undescribed Species (1920), by W. J. Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medallic Art of the American Numismatic Society, 1865-2014 (New York: American Numismatic Society, 2015), by Scott H. Miller (multiple formats at numismatics.org)

• Textile Collection: A Bibliography (3rd edition; Sacramento: American River College Library, 1982) (PDF at Arizona)

• Whole Earth Ecolog: The Best of Environmental Tools and Ideas (c1990), ed. by J. Baldwin, contrib. by Stewart Brand (Javascript-dependent page images at wholeearth.com)

• Inventaire Sommaire des Archives Départmentales Antérieures à 1790: Charente-Inférieure (3 volumes in French; La Rochelle: E. Martin, 1900-1906), ed. by Louis Marie Meschinet de Richemond
  • Volume 1: Series A, and B (art. 1-1005): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: Series B (art. 1006-1828): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: Series B (art. 1829-2661): multiple formats at archive.org

• Catalogue des Documents des Archives de la Lozère Antérieurs à 1200 (in French; Mende: Impr. Ignon-Renouard, 1922), by R. Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Archives Départmentales de la Lozère: Répertoire Numérique, Série N (Administration et Comptabilité Départementales) (in French; Mende: Ignon-Renouard, 1916), by R. Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Guide to Provincial Roman and Barbarian Metalwork and Jewelry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), by Katharine Reynolds Brown (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Guide to Provincial Roman and Barbarian Metalwork and Jewelry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), by Katharine Reynolds Brown (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Frankish Art in American Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1984), by Katharine Reynolds Brown (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 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)

• Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2005), by Anne-Marie S. Logan and Michiel Plomp, illust. by Peter Paul Rubens (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• 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)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in the North (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), contrib. by James Snyder (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• 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 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)

• 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

• Lexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen (2 volumes (A-F and G-L; no more published), in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1913-1914), by Theodor von Frimmel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2002), by Emma C. Bunker, contrib. by James C. Y. Watt and Zhixin Sun (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1984), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Edith Porada (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Bronze Reliefs From the Gates of Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, B.C. 860-825 (1915), ed. by L. W. King (PDF at ETANA)

• Forster Collection: A Catalogue of the Paintings, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Pamphlets, Etc., Bequeathed by John Forster, Esq. LL. D., with indexes (London: Printed for HMSO by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1893), by South Kensington Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections From the George Costakis Collection (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1981), by Margit Rowell and Angelica Zander Rudenstine (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Hamilton Palace Libraries: Catalogue of the Beckford Library Removed From Hamilton Palace (4 portions; London: Dryden press, J. Davy and Sons, 1882-1883)
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • third and fourth portions: multiple formats at archive.org

• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana: Treasures of Jewish Booklore (in Dutch and English; 1994) (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the Netherlands)

• Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2009), ed. by Dita Amory, contrib. by Rika Burnham, Jack D. Flam, Rémi Labrusse, Jacqueline Munck, Nicole R. Myers, and Allison Stielau, illust. by Pierre Bonnard (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Bibliotheca Dramatica: Catalogue of the Theatrical and Miscellaneous Library of the Late William E. Burton, the Distinguished Comedian, Comprising an Immense Assemblage of Books Relating to the Stage (auction catalog, 2 parts in 1 volume; New York: J. Sabin and Co., 1860)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Lambert (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) As an Engraver of Book-Plates (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed for the author by A. Reid, 1896), by John Vinycomb, contrib. by Richard Welford and John Vessey Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)

• François Boucher (2 volumes, in French; Lausanne and Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, c1976), by Alexandre Ananoff and Daniel Wildenstein (page images with commentary at wpi.art)

• Bibliothèque Mexico-Guatémalienne: Précédée d'un Coup d'Oeil sur les Études Américaines dans leurs Rapports avec les Études Classiques et Suivie du Tableau par Ordre Alphabétique des Ouvrages de Linguistique Américaine Contenus dans le même Volume (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1871), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of the Glossopteris Flora in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural history): Being a Monograph of the Permo-Carboniferous Flora of India and the Southern Hemisphere (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1905), by E. A. Newell Arber (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lydia (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1901), by Barclay V. Head (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1899), by Warwick William Wroth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1984), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Edith Porada (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1984), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Edith Porada (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Select Bronzes, Greek, Roman, And Etruscan, in the Departments of Antiquities (London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1915), by British Museum Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and H. B. Walters
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.