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• Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn: Ein Diplomat und Sammler des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German; Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1912), by Moritz Stübel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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

• Museum Wormianum: seu, Historia Rerum Rariorum (in Latin; Leiden: Elsevir, 1655), by Ole Worm (multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• Baxter's Procrustes, by Charles W. Chesnutt (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (c1920), by Vincent Starrett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, by Anatole France (Gutenberg text)

• The Collectors: Being Cases Mostly Under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments (1912), by Frank Jewett Mather (Gutenberg text)
• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Golden Bowl (1904), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Bowl (New York edition, 1909), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)

• The Outcry (1911), by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Connoisseur (1901-1992) (partial serial archives)
• The Collector, ed. by Alfred Trumble (partial serial archives)
• The Collector and Art Critic, ed. by David C. Preyer (full serial archives)
• Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Antiques (partial serial archives)

• Antiques (partial serial archives)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• The American Philatelist (partial serial archives)
• Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News (partial serial archives)

• The American Philatelist (partial serial archives)

• TIGHAR Tracks (1985-), by International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (partial serial archives)

• Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, by American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers (partial serial archives)

• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chats on Postage Stamps (second impression; London: T. F. Unwin, 1920), by Frederick John Melville (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Poetry of Travelling in the United States, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)

• Antique Maps (based on the third edition, 1989), by Carl Moreland and David Bannister (illustrated HTML at AntiqueMaps.co.uk)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide (1995), by Stephanie A. Hall (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• English Furniture (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona
• Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors (London: B. T. Batsford, 1908), by Margaret Jourdain
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

• Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen L. Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com

• The Coin Collector (London: G. Redway, 1896), by William Carew Hazlitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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