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• Phoenician Mortuary Practice in the Iron Age I - III (ca. 1200 - ca. 300 BCE) Levantine "Homeland" (University of Michigan dissertation; 2013), by Helen M. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Certain aboriginal mounds of the Georgia coast. (P.C. Stockhausen, 1897), by Clarence B. Moore and Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voices from the tombs (London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday [etc.], 1858), by st--Passion--Meditations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urne-buriall (Riverside Press, 1907), by Thomas Browne, Bruce Rogers, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The belief in immortality and the worship of the dead (Macmillan, 1913), by James George Frazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient burial mounds of Japan. (Washington, 1892), by Romyn Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• THe burial customs of the ancient Greeks. (Roche & Hawkins, 1891), by Frank Pierrepont Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epitaphiana: or, The curiosities of churchyard literature. Being a miscellaneous collection of epitaphs. With an introduction, giving an account of various customs prevailing amongst the ancients and moderns in the disposal of their dead. (S. Tinsley, 1875), by William Fairley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Immortal man; a study of funeral customs and of beliefs in regard to the nature and fate of the soul (Methuen & Co. ltd., 1926), by C. E. Vulliamy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain. A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. Made at the request of Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home department (Printed by W. Clowes and sons for H. M. Stationery off., 1843), by Edwin Chadwick, Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners, and Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth-burial and cremation : the history of earth-burial with its attendant evils, and the advantages offered by cremation (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by Augustus Gardiner Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burial customs of ancient Egypt as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom (A Constable & co., ltd., 1907), by John Garstang and University of Liverpool. Institute of Archaeology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Death and burial lore in the English and Scottish popular ballads (Lincoln, Neb., 1927), by Lowry Charles Wimberly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origine du culte des morts; les sépultures préhistoriques (J. Gamber, 1914), by Paul de Mortillet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der grabbau (G. Müller, 1923), by Ernst Fuhrmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Funeral management and costs: a world-survey of burial and cremation (The University of Chicago press, 1921), by Quincey Lamartine Dowd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, custom and social institutions connected therewith. (E. J. Brill, 1892), by J. J. M. de Groot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pokhorony u i͡akutov v si͡evernoĭ chasti I͡Akutskoĭ oblasti (Tip. K.Ī. Viktovskoĭ, 1890), by V. L. Priklonskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Begräbnisarten der Amerikaner und Nordostasiaten. (Hartung, 1894), by Konrad Theodor Preuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blame of kirk-buriall, tending to perswade cemiteriall civilitie. (W. Pickering; [etc., etc.], 1833), by William Birnie (page images at HathiTrust)
• De sepulturae denegatione. (Jenae, 1736), by Reinholdus Fridericus Sahme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les sépultures : devant l'histoire, l'archéologie, la liturgie, le droit ecclésiastique et la législation civile (J. Albanel, 1868), by Édouard de Hornstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire, and the sepulchral usages of its inhabitants, from the most remote ages to the reformation. (J. R. Smith, 1848), by Thomas Bateman and Stephen Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epitaphiana; or, The curiosities of churchyard literature; being a miscellaneous collection of epitaphs (Tinsley, 1873), by William Fairley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general volume of epitaphs, : original and selected: with a large selection of striking and appropriate texts of Scripture, and an historical and moral essay, on the subject. (J.W. Parker ..., 1840), by Benjamin Richings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth to earth; a plea for a change of system in our burial of the dead. (Macmillan, 1875), by Francis Seymour Haden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la sépulture et des funérailles dans l'ancienne Égypte. (Leroux, 1896), by E. Amélineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burial customs of ancient Egypt as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom; being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hassan during 1902-3-4 (A. Constable & co., ltd., 1907), by John Garstang and University of Liverpool. Institute of Archaeology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Concerning return of bodies of American soldiers who died abroad. (Govt. Print. Off., 1920), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leif's house in Vineland. (Damrell and Upham, 1893), by Eben Norton Horsford and Cornelia Horsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen de la question du refus de la sépulture ecclésiastique dans ses rapports avec la discipline de l'église catholique et le droit public de la France. (P. Durand et cie, etc., etc., 1840), by J. M. J. and A. M. D. G. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and modern modes of burial ([Albuquerque? N.M., 1911), by Mendel Silber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cemetery internment: (Longman, Orme, Brow, Green, and Longmans, 1840), by George Collison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The graves registration service in World War II (Historical Section, Office of the Quartermaster General :, 1951), by Edward Steere and United States. Office of the Quartermaster General. Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gatherings from grave yards; particularly those of London: with a concise history of the modes of interment among different nations, from the earliest periods. And a detail of dangerous and fatal results produced by the unwise and revolting custom of inhuming the dead in the midst of the living. (Messrs. Longman and Company;, 1839), by George Alfred Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches historiques et critiques sur la morgue (Adolphe Delahays, 1860), by Firmin Maillard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mort apparente et inhumations prématurées (Les Amis de Gustave Le Bon, 1900), by Gustave Le Bon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cremation and other modes of sepulture (J. b. Lippincott & Co., 1884), by R. E. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disposal of the dead by land, by water or by fire ; which? : being the last lecture of the course on hygiene and public health delivered to the theological classes in the session of 1874-75 (s.n.], 1875), by George A. Baynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre pastorale concernant la sépultre de Joseph Guibord membre de l'Institut Canadien (s.n., 1875), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• On certain burial customs as illustrative of the primitive theory of the soul. (Harrison & Sons, 1885), by James George Frazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Orient und Europa, Einfluss der orientalischen Cultur auf Europa bis zur Mitte des letzten Jahrtausends v. Chr. (Stockholm, 1899), by Oscar Montelius, J. Mestorf, and historie och antikvitets akademien Kungl. Vitterhets (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Funérailles et sépultures de la Rome païenne. Des sépultures et de la liberté des funérailles en droit civil. (1885), by Raoul Audibert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die katakomben von San Gennaro dei Poveri in Neapel : eine kunsthistorische Studie (Costenoble, 1877), by Viktor Schultze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die religiösen motive der totenbestattung bei den verschiedenen völkern. [Progr.] (Berlin, 1884), by E. Wasmansdorff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria sobre el derecho funerario en las XII tablas, leida en la real Academia de buenas letras de Barcelona, en sesión de 5 de abril de 1886. ([Barcelona, 1886), by Celestino Barallat y Falguera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ananʹinskīĭ mogilʹnik Vi︠a︡tskoĭ gubernīi, blizʹ goroda Elaburgi (V Sinodalʹnoĭ tip., 1871), by Kapiton Ivanovich Nevostruev (page images at HathiTrust)
• God's acre beautiful; or, The cemeteries of the future (The Garden office, 1880), by W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folkens tro om sina döda (Klemmings antiqvariat, 1874), by Hans Hildebrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die todtenbestattungen der Bibel und die feuerbestattung. (E. Schweizerbart, 1893), by Friedrich Küchenmeister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le reputatrici in Sicilia nell' età di mezzo e moderna; ricerche storiche. (tip. editrice Giannone e Lamantia, 1886), by Salvatore Salomone-Marino (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Published with a subvention from the Dutch colonial government. (E.J. Brill, 1892), by J. J. M. de Groot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why modern cremation should replace earth-burial : an exposé of the dangers caused by inhumation and an explanation of the superior merits of incineration upon new and scientific principles (Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, 1885), by Max Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der feuerbestattung und ihre geschichtliche entwicklung von der urzeit bis zur gegenwart; technische und künstlerische anforderungen an neuzeitliche krematorien und die damit zusammenhängenden anlagen (C. Scholtze, 1911), by E. Beutinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoire sur la question des refus de sépulture ecclésiastique. (Imp. d'A. Le Clere et cie, 1847), by F. Lauras and Henri Léon Camusat de Riancey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rapport fait par les citoyens Hallé, Desessartz Toulongen, [and others] chargés par l'Institut national des sciences et arts, de l'examen des mémoires envoyés au concours proposé par le gouvernement, sur les questions relatives aux cérémonies funéraires et aux lieux des sépultures. (de l'Imp. d'A. Bailleul, 1808), by Institut de France, François Emmanuel de Toulongeon, Jean Charles Deśessartz, and J. N. Hallé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours qui a partagé le prix proposé par l'Institut national de France, au nom du gouvernement, et décerné le 15 vendémiaire an IX de la République Française, sur cette question: Quelles sont les cérémonies à faire pour les funérailles, et le réglement à adopter pour le lieu de la sépulture? (à l'Imp.-lib., an IX, 1800), by François-Valentin Mulot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rockland Cemetery illustrated : suggestions and associations connected with it and a brief statement of the superior advantages presented to those who desire beautiful resting places for their dead (A. D. F. Randolph, 1881), by William Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk (Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658), by Thomas Browne and Henry Brome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Norsemen at Herjolfsnes, an archaeological and historical study (1924), by Poul Nørlund and Annie Fausbøll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns., by Edwin Chadwick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3): The Belief Among the Polynesians, by James George Frazer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3): The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia, by James George Frazer (Gutenberg ebook)

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