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• Art of Tomorrow: Fourty-One Reproductions From the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for Non-Objective Painting (ca. 1947), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, contrib. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Ann Davis and Elizabeth Herbert, contrib. by Jennifer E. Salahub and Christine Sowiak (PDF at University of Calgary)

• From Realism to Abstraction: The Art of J. B. Taylor (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014), by Adriana A. Davies (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Ann Davis and Elizabeth Herbert, contrib. by Jennifer E. Salahub and Christine Sowiak (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Paul-Émile Borduas: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2014), by François Marc Gagnon, trans. by Elizabeth Schwaiger, illust. by Paul-Émile Borduas (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)

• Kandinsky in Paris, 1934-1944 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1985), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Christian Derouet, and Wassily Kandinsky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Kandinsky in Paris, 1934-1944 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1985), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Christian Derouet, and Wassily Kandinsky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists (c1961), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ed. by H. H. Amason (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Current Line (1996), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)

• 0 to 9 (New York-based literary magazine, 1967-1969), ed. by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer (partial serial archives)

• Guggenheim International Exhibition, 1971 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1966), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Diane Waldman and Edward F. Fry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast (1914-1915; only ran two issues), ed. by Wyndham Lewis (full serial archives)

• Art of Tomorrow: Fourty-One Reproductions From the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for Non-Objective Painting (ca. 1947), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, contrib. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Travels with Samantha, by Philip Greenspun (illustrated HTML at greenspun.com)

• Mavor's Illustrated Primer, With Three Hundred and Fifty Illustrations (London: F. Warne and Co., ca. 1870), by William Fordyce Mavor (page images at Princeton)

• American Lives: A Brief Look (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2009), ed. by Jonathan Margolis, Michael Jay Friedman, and Min Chih Yao (PDF at state.gov)

• Souvenir of Annapolis, Md.: Photo-Gravures (New York: The Albertype Co., c1896), by Mrs. E. Schaefer (page images at LOC)

• Album of Photographs and Sketches, With a Portfolio of Panoramic Views (London: Royal Society, 1908), by British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904), contrib. by Archibald Geikie and Edward Wilson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• American Apartment Houses, Hotels and Apartment Hotels of Today: Exterior and Interior Photographs and Plans (New York: Architectural Book Pub. Co., c1929), by R. W. Sexton, contrib. by Raymond M. Hood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beautiful Buildings in France and Belgium, Including Many Which Have Been Destroyed During the War (New York: Hubbell Pub. Co., c1916), by Charles Harrison Townsend (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1930), illust. by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Ornithology: or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given by Wilson (4 volumes, 1825-1833), by Charles Lucian Bonaparte (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Natural History of British Birds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of Foreign Birds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Natural History of Water Birds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• City Limits: Images of Boston in Transition (originally published 1987; Humanities Open Book edition Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2019), ed. by Kelly Wise, illust. by Roswell Angier, Polly Brown, Bill Burke, and Kelly Wise (multiple formats at Project MUSE)
• Boston, Its Byways and Highways: Being Twenty-Five Drawings Reproduced in Photogravure (Boston: LeRoy Phillips, ca. 1914), by John Albert Seaford (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Botanical Atlas: A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants, Containing Representatives of the Leading Forms of Plant Life, With Explanatory Letterpress (2 volumes; New York: The Century Co., 1883), by Daniel McAlpine
  • Volume 1 (Phanerogams): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Cryptogams): page images at HathiTrust
• Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants; With Groups and Descriptions (2 volumes, reduced from original folio edition; London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868), by Elizabeth Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants; With Groups and Descriptions (interactive edition), by Elizabeth Twining, contrib. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)
• New Illustration of The Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus; and The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature (London: Printed for the publisher by T. Bensley, 1807), by Robert John Thornton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Archiv der Gewächskunde (2 volumes in German; Vienna: Auf Kosten des Herausgebers, 1812-1814), by Leopold Trattinnick
  • Volume 1 (with plates 1-100): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (with plates 101-250): multiple formats at Google
• Canadian Wild Flowers (Montreal: J. Lovell, 1868), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill, illust. by Agnes Fitzgibbon (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Icones Bogorienses (4 volumes, in Latin, French, and German; Leide: E. J. Brill, 1897-1914), by Kebun Raya Bogor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Instructive Picture Book: or, Lessons From the Vegetable World (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1858), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at Florida; some pages out of order)
• The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain; With Their Names, Classes, Orders, History, Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations (13 volumes issued by various publishers, 1825-ca. 1851), by B. Maund
  • Volume I (numbers 1-96): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (numbers 97-192): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (numbers 193-288): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (numbers 289-384): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume V (numbers 385-480): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VI (numbers 481-576): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VII (numbers 577-672): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VIII (numbers 673-764): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IX (numbers 765-864): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume X (numbers 865-960): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XI (numbers 961-1056, and The Fruitist): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XII (numbers 1057-1152, The Floral Register, and The Fruitist): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XIII (numbers 1153-1248, and The Fruitist): multiple formats at Google
• Kunstformen der Natur (2 volumes, in German; Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1904), by Ernst Haeckel
  • main volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • selected colored plates from main volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • supplement volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• North American Cariceae (2 volumes; New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1940), by Kenneth K. Mackenzie, ed. by Harold William Rickett, illust. by Harry Charles Creutzburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cambridge (revised and abridged edition; London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1922), by M. A. R. Tuker, illust. by William Matthison
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Through Mountains and Canyons: The Canadian Rockies (c1906), illust. by William Notman & Son (Gutenberg illustrated HTML)

• Walter Chandoha's Book of Kittens and Cats (New York: Bramhall House, c1963), by Walter Chandoha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Book of the Cat, With Facsimiles of Drawings in Colour (New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Co., 1903), by Mabel Humphrey, illust. by Elisabeth Fearne Bonsall (page images at LOC)
• Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1911), by Eulalie Osgood Grover (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist, by Mead B. Kibbey, ed. by Peter E. Palmquist (illustrated HTML at cprr.org)

• Nuova Raccolta di Figurini Teatrali: Giusta il Costume Di Tutti i Tempi e di Tutte de Nazioni (text in Italian; Milan: Presso l'editore Ricordi, ca. 1828), ed. by Giovanni Ricordi, illust. by Gallo Gallina
  • multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org
  • rotated page images at HathiTrust

• A Few Pictures from Chhattisgarh and the Central Provinces of India, Illustrating the Scenery, the Social customs of the Sathāmis and the Late Famine (1899), by J. J. Lohr
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chinese Pictures: Notes on Photographs Made in China (New York: C. L. Bowman and Co., ca. 1900), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented (4 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1874), by J. Thomson (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• China (a Burton Holmes Travel Stories volume; Chicago: Wheeler Pub. Co., 1937), by Eunice Tietjens and Louise Strong Hammond, illust. by Burton Holmes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Picturesque People: Being Groups from All Quarters of the Globe (London: W. M. Thompson, 1876), by William Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cañons of Colorado (Denver: Frank S. Thayer, n.d.), by William Henry Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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