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• The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2005), by Peter Barnet and Nancy Y. Wu (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

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• Medieval Monuments at The Cloisters as They Were and as They Are (revised edition; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), by James J. Rorimer and Katherine Serrell Rorimer (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Künstler und Werkstatt der Spätgotik (in German; Augsburg: Dr. Filser Verlag, 1923), by Hans Huth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient and Medieval Art: A Short History (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Margaret H. Bulley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and Medieval Art: A Short History (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914), by Margaret H. Bulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (London: J. S. Virtue and Co., ca. 1886), by P. L. Jacob and Walter Armstrong, illust. by Franz Kellerhoven (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mural Paintings in English Churches During the Middle Ages: An Introductory Essay on the Folk Influence in Religious Art (London: J. Lane, c1923), by Frank Kendon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Study-Book of Mediaeval Architecture and Art: Being a Series of Working Drawings of the Principal Monuments of the Middle Ages, Whereof the Plans, Sections, and Details Are Drawn to Uniform Scales (4 volumes; London: H. Sotheran and Co.. 1868), by T. H. King
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volumes II-IV: page images at HathiTrust

• The Cloisters: Studies in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), ed. by Elizabeth C. Parker, contrib. by Mary B. Shepard (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843-1261) (New York: Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 2013), ed. by Olenka Z. Pevny, contrib. by Ihor Ševčenko, Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot, IU. A. Piatnitskii, V. N. Zalesskaia, Etele Kiss, Thomas Steppan, Li︠u︡dmyla Mili︠a︡i︠e︡va, Elka Bakalova, Guglielmo Cavallo, Panagiōtēs L. Vokotopoulos, Włodzimierz Godlewski, Nodar Lomouri, and Kiti Mač'abeli (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843-1261) (New York: Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 2013), ed. by Olenka Z. Pevny, contrib. by Ihor Ševčenko, Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot, IU. A. Piatnitskii, V. N. Zalesskaia, Etele Kiss, Thomas Steppan, Li︠u︡dmyla Mili︠a︡i︠e︡va, Elka Bakalova, Guglielmo Cavallo, Panagiōtēs L. Vokotopoulos, Włodzimierz Godlewski, Nodar Lomouri, and Kiti Mač'abeli (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2005), ed. by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiří Fajt, contrib. by Robert Suckale, Paul Crossle, Zoë Opač̌ić, Vivian B. Mann, Gerhard Schmidt, Jan Royt, and Ernő Marosi (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2005), ed. by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiří Fajt, contrib. by Robert Suckale, Paul Crossle, Zoë Opač̌ić, Vivian B. Mann, Gerhard Schmidt, Jan Royt, and Ernő Marosi (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 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)
• Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jane Hayward and Walter Cahn (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), ed. by Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom, contrib. by Speros Vryonis, Thomas F. Mathews, Jeffrey C. Anderson, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Henry Maguire, Robert G. Ousterhout, Ioli Kalavrezou, Olenka Z. Pevny, Joseph D. Alchermes, S. Peter Cowe, Thelma K. Thomas, Jaroslav Folda, and Priscilla Parsons Soucek (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550 (Munich: Prestel-Verlag; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1986), by Rainer Kahsnitz and William D. Wixom, contrib. by Martin Angerer, Guy Bauman, Barbara Drake Boehm, Rainer Brandl, Jane Hayward, Timothy Husband, Walter J. Karcheski, Kurt Löcher, Otto Lohr, Hermann Maué, Helmut Nickel, Klaus Pechstein, Rainer Schoch, Alfred Wendehorst, Leonie von Wilckens, and Johannes Karl Wilhelm Willers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550 (Munich: Prestel-Verlag; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1986), by Rainer Kahsnitz and William D. Wixom, contrib. by Martin Angerer, Guy Bauman, Barbara Drake Boehm, Rainer Brandl, Jane Hayward, Timothy Husband, Walter J. Karcheski, Kurt Löcher, Otto Lohr, Hermann Maué, Helmut Nickel, Klaus Pechstein, Rainer Schoch, Alfred Wendehorst, Leonie von Wilckens, and Johannes Karl Wilhelm Willers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1992), ed. by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), contrib. by Sumner McK. Crosby, Jane Hayward, Charles T. Little, and William D. Wixom (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Middle Ages in the Athenian Agora (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1992), ed. by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2005), by Michael Norris (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• A Masterwork of Byzantine Art: The David Plates: The Story of David and Goliath (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2001), by Esther M. Morales, Alice W. Schwarz, Michael Norris, and Edith W. Watts (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• Byzantine Mosaics in Greece: Hosios Lucas and Daphni (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931), by Ernst Diez and Otto Demus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constantinople: De Byzance à Stamboul (in French; Paris: H. Laurens, 1909), by Celâl Esad Arseven, contrib. by Charles Diehl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manuel d'Art Byzantin (in French; Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1910), by Charles Diehl
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mélanges d'Archéologie Byzantine: Monnaies, Médailles, Méreaux, Jetons, Amulettes, Bulles d'or et de Plomb, Poids de Verre et de Bronze, Ivoires, Objets d'Orfèvrerie, Bagues, Religuaires, etc. (first and apparently only series, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1895), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gothic: Literary Sources and Interpretations Through Eight Centuries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1960), by Paul Frankl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idealismus und Naturalismus in der Gotischen Skulptur und Malerei (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1918), by Max Dvořák (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Dalmatia, Abbazia, Lussin, Etc.: The Austrian Riviera, Including the Albanian coast, the Jonian Islands, Corfu, Patras, Athens (illustrated guide Hartleben #65; Vienna and Leipzig: A. Hartleben, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Traveler's Guide to Negro History (third edition; 1967), by American Oil Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Travelers Guide to Negro Monuments (1963), by American Oil Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Traveler's Guide to Negro History (third edition; 1967), by American Oil Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Travelers Guide to Negro Monuments (1963), by American Oil Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Three Days at Agra: An Illustrated Guide to Places of Interest, Including Fatephur Sikri, With History and Map (6th edition, 1922), by H. A. Newell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Appleton's Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (page images at LOC)
• Sights and Scenes in Oregon, Washington and Alaska for Tourists, by Union Pacific Railway Company (page images at LOC)

• Alexandria: A History and a Guide (Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Ltd., 1922), by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Guide to the Giants Causeway, and the North-East Coast of the County of Antrim (London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823), by G. N. Wright, illust. by George Petrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Giants' Causeway, and the North East Coast of the County of Antrim (new edition; Dublin: W. Curry, Jr., and Co., 1834), by G. N. Wright, illust. by George Petrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Arezzo, Città e Provincia: Guida Illustrata, Storica, Amministrattiva, Commerciale (second edition, in Italian; Arezzo: E. Sinatti, 1904), by Carlo Signorini
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Guide to the City of Baltimore (Baltimore: J. Murphy and Co., 1893), by Jacob H. Hollander
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Belfast and Its Environs: or, Stranger's Guide (new edition; Belfast: J. Henderson; Dublin: J. M'Glashan, 1855) (multiple formats at Google)

• Belgium and Holland: Handbook for Travellers (1869), by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook for Berkshire: Including Windsor, Reading, Maidenhead, Bray, Newbury, Aldworth, the Downs, the Ridgeway, Abingdon, Faringdon, Buckland, Cumnor, etc. (London: E. Stanford, 1902), by John Meade Falkner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boston: A Guide Book (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1903), by Edwin M. Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Boston Illustrated (ca.1891), by Edwin M. Bacon (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Stranger's New Guide Through Boston and Vicinity (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1869)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• The New Guide, or Picture of Bristol, with the Beauties of Clifton: A Descriptive Arrangement of Excursions in Their Vicinities (fourth edition; Bristol, UK: Aitkens, et al., 1828), by John Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Picture of Bristol: or, a Guide to Objects of Curiosity and Interest in Bristol, Clifton, the Hotwells and Their Vicinity; Including Biographical Notices of Eminent Natives (second edition; Bristol, UK: Printed for W. Sheppard, et al., 1818), by John Evans (page images at HathiTrust)

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