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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
• Beschreibung der vornehmsten Merkwürdigkeiten in des H.R. Reichs freyen Stadt Nürnberg und auf der hohen Schule zu Altdorf : nebst einem chronologischen Verzeichnisse der von deutschen, insonderheit Nürnbergern, erfundenen Künste, vom XIII Jahrhunderte bis auf jetzige Zeiten / (Nürnberg : Bey Johann Eberhard Zeh in Commission, 1778), by Christoph Gottlieb von Murr and Sebastian Roland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études sur l'art et la curiosité / (Paris : Société française d'éditions d'art, 1902), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• More about collecting [electronic resource] / (Toronto : J.M. Dent, [1913?]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ABC about collecting [electronic resource] / (Toronto : Copp, Clark, [1910?]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First steps in collecting [electronic resource] / (Toronto : Bell & Cockburn, [191-?]), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Qvatre relations historiqves / (A Basle : [s.n.], 1673), by Charles Patin and Jacques Louis Durant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité / (Paris : E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Viri illustris Nicolai Claudij Fabricij de Peiresc, senatoris aquisextiensis vita / (Hagae-Comitvm, Ex typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1655), by Pierre Gassendi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Agassiz journal for curiosity collectors. (Lynn, Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the quaint, (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1916), by Virginia Robie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors / (London : Ernest Benn, 1920), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old silver. (London, T.F. Unwin, ltd., [1925]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur : an illustrated magazine for collectors (London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1901-) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art treasures and intrigue (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., [c1935]), by James Henry Duveen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of the remarkable collection of ancient arms and weapons, Egyptian antiquities and Oriental and European curios collected by the late Samuel H. Austin. To be sold at unrestricted public sale ... at the American Art Galleries. (New York, American Art Association, 1917), by Samuel Henry Austin and American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Connoisseur. (New York [etc.] Hearst Corp. [etc.]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les collectionneurs de l'ancienne France; notes d'un amateur, (Paris, A. Aubry, 1873), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lace & embroidery collector; a guide to collectors of old lace and embroidery, (New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1922), by R. E. Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstgewerbliche Altertümer und Kuriositäten; (Berlin : R.C. Schmidt, 1920), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Franz M. Feldhaus, and Friedrich Jaennicke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts : during the last half of the seventeenth century, and the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth / (London : T. A. Strange, [ca. 1910]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to collect old furniture, (London, G. Bell and sons, 1904), by Frederick Litchfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiques. ([Boston, Mass. : F.E. Atwood, 1922-1927]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue des objet's d'art et de haute curiosité de la Renaissance, tapisseries, tableaux anciens composant la collection Émile Gaillard, Et dont la vente aura lieu a Paris en son hotel, 1 Palace Malesherbes, 8-16 Juin 1904. (Paris : Imprimerie Georges Petit, [1904]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A plea for art in the house, with special reference to the economy of collecting works of art, (Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, [1876]), by W. J. Loftie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Button classics, (Chicago, Lightner publishing co., c1941), by Laura Erwina Blanchard Couse and Marguerite Maple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Antiques and their history." (Binghamton, N.Y., [c1927]), by Leo John Buckley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gun collector's handbook of values. (San Leandro, Calif., The author, [c1940]), by Charles Edward Chapel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Collector and art critic. (New York : David C. Preyer, 1899-1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to collectors : 3000 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth / ([London, 1900]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sredi kollekt︠s︡īonerov / (Peterburg : Izd-vo Z.I. Grzhebina, 1922), by Iv Lazarevskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English pottery and porcelain : a handbook for the collector / (London : L. Upcott Gill, 1910), by Edward Andrews Downman and Aubrey D. Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• More about collecting, (London, S. Paul & Co., [1913]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collectors of American Art, Inc. (New York, N.Y. : Collectors of American Art, Inc., Printed by The Modern Press, 1956), by Inc Collectors of American Art and Emily A. Francis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunstgewerbliche Altertümer und Kuriositäten : Führer für Sammler und Liebhaber von Gegenständen der Kleinkunst, von Antiquitäten sowie bon Kuriositäten / (Berlin : R.C. Schmidt, 1916), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Franz M. Feldhaus, and Friedrich Jaennicke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On collecting engravings, pottery, porcelain, glass and silver, (London, E. Arnold, 1905), by Robert Elward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collector's luck; or, A repository of pleasant and profitable discourses descriptive of the household furniture and ornaments of olden time... (Boston, The Atlantic monthly press, 1919), by Alice Van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of an old collector, (London, New York, etc., Longmans, Green, and co., 1898), by Michaì Tyszkiewicz, trans. by Mrs. Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fine prints, (New York, Longmans, Green and company, 1897), by Frederick Wedmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibelots and curios: a manual for collectors, with a glossary of technical terms. (New York, D. Appleton, 1879), by Frederic Vors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old silver / (London : T. Fisher Unwin, ltd., [1915]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sredi kollekt͡sionerov. (1917), by Ivan Lazarevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The boy collector's handbook, (New York, R. M. McBride & co., 1915), by A. Hyatt Verrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kōko ruisan : shūi / (Tōkyō : Kōkosha Shuppanbu, Meiji 41-42 [1908-09]), by Yorikuni Inoue, Sugimura Kosugi, and Kōkosha. Hensanbu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Royal Copenhagen porcelain; its history and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, (London, [etc.] T. F. Unwin, 1911), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collector's luck; (Boston : The Atlantic monthly press, 1919), by Alice van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture ... (London : T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Arthur Hayden and Hugh Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on old silver, (London : T. F. Unwin, [1917]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the great masters, as exemplified by drawings in the collection of Émile Wauters, membre de l'Académie royale de Belgique, (London : S. Low, Marston & co. ltd., 1913), by George Frederic William Lees and Émile Wauters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to collectors. (London, McCorquodale & Co., New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, [1902?]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rare books and their prices ; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain, and postage stamps. (London : G. Redway, 1895), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collector's luck : or, a repository of pleasant and profitable discourses descriptive of the household furniture and ornaments of olden time... / (Boston : Atlantic monthly press, [1923]), by Alice van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to collectors. 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, (London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1903]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The A B C about collecting / (New York : Dutton, 1923), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lure of amateur collecting, (Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1923), by George Blake Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur, essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of artists. (London, G. Redway, 1897), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ABC of Japanese art / (Toronto : Copp, Clark, [between 1911 and 1918]), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sold to the lady in the green hat. (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1962), by Emma Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pewter collector; a guide to English pewter with some reference to foreign work, (London, H. Jenkins, 1921), by H. J. L. J. Massé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux, marchand-bijoutier ordinaire du roy, 1748-1758. : Précédé d'une étude sur le gout et sur le commerce des objets d'art au milieu du 18e siècle. (Paris : Société des bibliophiles françois, 1873), by Lazare Duvaux, Louis Courajod, and France) Société des bibliophiles françois (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the antique; being some personal experiences in the finding of old furniture, (London, J. Milne, 1908), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old furniture; a practical guide for collectors, (New York, F. A. Stokes company, [1905]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors / (New York : F. A. Stokes, 1906), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting and hobbies, with special reference to coin, medal and paper money collecting. (New York, Elder Numismatic Press, c1917), by Frederick S. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of the very notable collection of American paintings formed during the past twenty-five years by Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys (New York, American Art Association, [1917]), by Alexander Crombie Humphreys, Dana H. Carroll, and American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in collecting furnitute, glass, china. (New York, McBride, [1950]), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ABC of Japanese art, (London, S. Paul & co., [1911]), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sredi kollekt͡sionerov / (S.-Peterburg : Izd. A.I. Grammatikova, 1914), by Ivan Ivanovich Lazarevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to collectors, 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth ... (London, McCorquodale, [1918]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting antiques for pleasure and profit; the narrative of twenty-five years search for antique furniture, prints, china, paintings and other works of art, copiously pictured with many fine examples. (New York, Putnam, 1922), by Felix Gade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C about collecting, (London, S. Paul & co., [1910]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fell's collector's guide to valuable antiques. (New York, F. Fell, [c1963]), by Howard R. Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living with antiques; a treasury of private homes in America. (New York, E.P. Dutton, [c1963]), by Alice Winchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• American pewter, (New York, Crown publishers, [1942]), by John Barrett Kerfoot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical book of American antiques, exclusive of furniture, (New York, Garden City Pub. Co., [c1927]), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Lenore Wheeler Williams, Mabel Foster Bainbridge, and Abbot McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kōko ruisan. (Tōkyō : Kōkosha Jimusho, Meiji 36-39 [1903-1906]), by Yukimaro Miyazaki, Yorikuni Inoue, Sugimura Kosugi, and Kōkosha. Hensanbu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kōko ruisan. (Tōkyō : Kōkosha Shuppanbu, Meiji 39-41 [1906-1908]), by Yukimaro Miyazaki, Yorikuni Inoue, Sugimura Kosugi, and Kōkosha. Hensanbu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les bibliophiles et les collectionneurs provençaux, anciens et modernes. Arondissement de Marseille. (Marseille : Berthelet, 1897), by Emile Perrier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kōko ruisan. (Tōkyō : Kōkosha Jimusho, Meiji 33-36 [1900-1903]), by Yukimaro Miyazaki and Kōkosha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Na wozie i pod wozem, 1837-1917 : wspomnienia z lat ubiegłych wnukom i wnuczkom opowiedziane / (Poznań : Wydawn. Polskie R. Wegnera, [1918?]), by Włodzimierz Czetwertyński-Światopełk, Stanisław Wasylewski, and Seweryn Czetwertyński (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collector's luck in Spain. (Boston : Little, Brown, 1930), by Alice van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• About antiques / (Philadelphia ; London : J. B. Lippincott company, 1929), by Ella Shannon Bowles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Addressbuch der Museen, Bibliotheken, Sammler und Antiquare. Ein Handbuch für Sammler, Auctionatoren, Museums-Vorstände und Händler, (Strassburg i.E., Strassburger Antiquitäten-Zeitschrift, 1897), by Robert Forrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bargain book / (London : Chatto & Windus, 1911), by Charles Edward Wynne Jerningham and Lewis Bettany (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Print restoration and picture cleaning : an illustrated practical guide to the restoration of all kinds of prints; together with chapters on cleaning water-colours, print "fakes" and their detection, anomalies in print values, and prints to collect. (London : Gill, 1911), by Maurice James Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting old miniatures, (London, W. Heinemann, [1916]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• American pewter, (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1924), by John Barrett Kerfoot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of hobbies; or, A guide to happiness (New York : Minton, Balch & company, [c1924]), by Charles William Taussig and Theodore Arthur Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture, (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [1911]), by Arthur Hayden and Hugh Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Soulages collection : being a descriptive inventory of a collection of works of decorative art, formerly in the possession of Jules Soulages of Toulouse; now, by permission of the committee of privy council for trade, exhibited to the public at the Museum of Ornamental Art, Marlborough House / (London : Chapman & Hall, 1856), by J. C. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité, (Paris, E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pleasures of collecting, (New York, The Century company, 1920), by Gardner Callahan Teall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rariora; being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., collected (1858-1900) (London : S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd., [1902]), by John Eliot Hodgkin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arms collectors of the United States (the original national directory of the arms hobby) (Omaha, Neb., c1939), by Virgil Ney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The oriental rug; a monograph on eastern rugs and carpets, saddle-bags, mats & pillows, with a consideration of kinds and classes, types, borders, figures, dyes, symbols, etc., together with some practical advice to collectors, (New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903), by William De Lancey Ellwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC of collecting old English china, giving short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800. (London : London Opinion Curio Club, 1908), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bye-paths in curio collecting / (London : T.F. Unwin ltd., [1919]), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese collectors and what they collect, (Chicago, The Bookfellows, 1921), by Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The confessions of a collector; (London, Ward & Downey, limited, 1897), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur : essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of art and artists. (New York : Longmans, Green & Co., 1897), by ROBINSON (F.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causeries sur l'art et la curiosité / (Paris : A. Quantin, 1878), by Edmond Bonnaffé and Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Care and repair of antiques / (New York : Gramercy, c1949), by Thomas H. Ormsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directory of collectors of books, autographs, prints and other historical material relating to Abraham Lincoln. (Battle Creek, Mich., 1946), by Forest H. Sweet (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to collect old furniture, (London, G. Bell and sons, 1906), by Frederick Litchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The quest of the colonial (New York, The Century company, 1921 [c1907]), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secrets of an art dealer / (New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [c1938]), by James Henry Duveen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur : essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of art and artists / (London : G. Redway, 1897), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First steps in collecting / (London : T.W. Laurie, ltd., [1913]), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The A B C of collecting old English china, giving a short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800, (Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs & co., [1911]), by J. F. Blacker and William Bemrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• A button collector's journal / (Hightstown, N.J., [c1941]), by Lillian Smith Albert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the old masters (New York, Harper, 1899), by Cennino Cennini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiques. (New York, Straight Enterprises, Inc.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some notes on American pewterers, (Garden City, N. Y., Printed for L. G. Myers by Country Life Press, 1926), by Louis Guerineau Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old pewter. (New York, A. A. Wyn, 1949), by H. J. L. J. Massé (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-paths in collecting : being aids in the quest of rare and unique things which have passed the century mark, such as old china, furniture, pewter, copper, brass, samplers and sun-dials, with comments on their age, decoration and value. (New York : The Century company, 1912), by Virginia Huntington Robie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old pewter, (London, T. F. Unwin, 1911), by H. J. L. J. Massé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyage dans un grenier; bouquins, faïences, autographes & bibelots. (Paris, D. Morgand & C. Fatout, 1878), by Charles Marie Gabriel Cousin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rariora : being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., collected (1858-1900) / (London : S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd., [1902]), by John Eliot Hodgkin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes from a collector's catalogue, with a bibliography of English cookery books, (London, J. and E. Bumpus, limited, 1909), by Arnold Whitaker Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting old lustre ware / (New York : George H. Doran co., 1917), by W. Bosanko (page images at HathiTrust)
• English pottery and porcelain: a handbook for the collector. (London, L. U. Gill, 1904), by Edward Andrews Downman and Aubrey D. Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité, (Paris, E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting Greek coins, (New York, W. Raymond, inc., [c1937]), by Paul S. Szego (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Every girl's book of hobbies / (London and Edinburgh [etc.] : T. Nelson and sons, Ltd., [1925?]), by E. M. de Foubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handboek voor den verzamelaar : een praktisch boek, leerende het aanleggen, in orde maken en onderhouden van alle soorten van verzamelingen / (Leiden : A. W. Sijthoff, 1880), by Tiberius Cornelius Winkler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of an expert / (London : H. Jenkins, 1925), by George Charles Williamson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le commerce de la curiosité. (Paris, H. Champion, 1895), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• La tienda de antigüedades / (Bogotá : Impr. de El Progreso, 1892), by Eduardo Arias J (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les propos de Valentin / (Paris : J. Rouam, éditeur ; Londres : Gilbert Wood & Co., 1886), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annuaire artistique des collectionneurs : 1882-1883 / (Paris : R. Simon ; Abbeville : Chez l'auteur, [1883]), by Ris-Paquot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections et collectionneurs. (Paris, Charpentier, 1885), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture, decoration, woodwork, and allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth / (London : McCorquodale & Co., [1890?]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art sales. A history of sales of pictures and other works of art. With notices of the collections sold, names of owners, titles of pictures, prices and purchasers, arranged under the artists of the different schools in order of date. Including the purchases and prices of pictures for the National Gallery. Illustrated with autotypes from small sketches of great pictures & water-colour drawings sold, portraits of eminent collectors and views of their residences, objects of ornamental art, &c., &c. (London [Bradbury, Agnew, & co., printers, the "Whitefriars" press], 1888), by George Redford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting antiques for pleasure and profit; the narrative of twenty-five years search for antique furniture, prints, china, paintings and other works of art, copiously pictured with many fine examples. (London, T. W. Laurie ltd., [1921]), by Felix Gade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mastai's Classified directory of American art & antique dealers. (New York, B. Mastai.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations of an autograph collector / (New York ; London : Harper & Bros., Publishers, 1902), by Adrian H. Joline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The unpublishable memoirs, (London, J. Castle, [1924]), by A. S. W. Rosenbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collectors and collecting. (New York : Art Treasures of the World, [1954]), by W. G. Constable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The collector's manual, (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [c1906]), by N. Hudson Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• More about collecting, (Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs & co., [1913]), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hobby protection act/antique glassware and china [microform] : hearing, Ninety-third Congress, first session, February 28, 1973. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Print restoration and picture cleaning : an illustrated practical guide to the restoration of all kinds of prints : together with chapters on cleaning water-colours, print "fakes" and their detection, anomalies in print values, and prints to collect / (London : "The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart,", 1922), by Maurice James Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rambles in autograph land, (New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1913), by Adrian H. Joline and Mary E. Joline (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bibliophile : a magazine and review for the collector, student and general reader (London, The Bibliophile Office) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some hobby horses; (London, W. H. Allen & co., 1890), by C. A. Montresor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C of collecting old English china, giving a short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800, (Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs & co., [1911]), by J. F. Blacker and William Bemrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oh! fickle taste; or, Objectivity in art. ([New York] B. Wheelwright Co., 1952), by Germain Seligman (page images at HathiTrust)
• An encyclopedia of antiques, (Boston, Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937), by Harold Lewis Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Museum. An illustrated journal, for collectors of all classes and young naturalists. (Philadelphia, Pa. W.F. Fell & Co., Printers, [1885]), ed. by Edwin Atlee Berber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations of an autograph collector / (New York : Harper, 1902), by Adrian H. Joline (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Hotel des commissaires-priseurs, (Paris, E. Dentu, 1867), by Champfleury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American craftsmen, (New York, The Century Company, 1915), by Walter A. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal Copenhagen porcelain : its history and development from the eighteenth century to the present day / (New York : McBride, Nast & co., 1912), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The amateur collector; everybody's book on collecting, (New York, R.M. McBride and Co., 1924), by George C. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglo-American pottery; old English china with American views; a manual for collectors, (Philadelphia, Press of Patterson & White Company, 1901), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rare books and their prices : with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain and postage stamps / (New York : Longmans, Green & Co., 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rare books and their prices; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain, and postage stamps. (London, G. Redway, 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in collecting, (New York, Dodd, Mead & co., [1926]), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collecting of antiques / (New York : Macmillan, 1926), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old silver spoons of England, a practical guide for collectors, (London, H. Jenkins limited, 1926), by Norman Gask (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English pottery and porcelain; being a concise account of the development of the potter's art in England. (London, Gill, 1896), by Edward Andrews Downman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adresnai͡a knizhka russkikh kollekt͡sionerov. (Vologda : Izdanie Severnogo Otdela Upolnomochennogo po filatelii i bonam v SSSR, 1926), by Upolnomochennyĭ po filatelii i bonam v SSSR. Severnyĭ otdel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old beautiful, (London, Mills & Boon, 1926), by Thomas Rohan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The collecting of antiques. (New York, Macmillan, 1937 [©1926]), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pantheon; internationales adressbuch der kunst- und antiquitäten-sammler und -händler, bibliotheken, archive, museen, kunst-, altertums- und geschichtsvereine, bücherliebhaber, numismatiker; (Esslingen a. N., P. Neff, 1926), ed. by Albert Schramm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Des Augsburger patriciers Philipp Hainhofer beziehungen zum herzog Philipp II. von Pommern-Stettin. Correspondenzen aus den jahren 1610-1619, (Wien, C. Graeser, 1896), by Philipp Hainhofer and Oscar Doering (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lure of the antique / (New York : The Century Company, 1910), by Walter A. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the colonial (New York, The Century Company, 1907), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglo-American pottery : old English china with American views, a manual for collectors / (Indianapolis, Ind. : Press of the Clay-worker, 1899), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Edward E. Ayer, (Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1929), by Frank C. Lockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collecting of antiques, (New York, Macmillan, 1944, [c1926]), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The curiosity world. (Lake Village, N.H. : J.M. Hubbard, 1886-1888), by H. J. Miron and John M. Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentle art of faking; a history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present day, (London, Seeley, Service & Co., ltd., 1922), by Riccardo Nobili (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'art de reconnaître les fraudes : peinture, sculpture, gravure, meubles, dentelles, céramique, etc. ... (Paris : R. Roger et F. Chernoviz, 1920), by Emile Bayard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les antiquaires lyonnais de la renaissance. (Lyon, : M. Audin et compagnie, 1924), by Mathieu Varille (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les collectionneurs de l'ancienne Rome : notes d'un amateur. (Paris : A. Aubry, 1867), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antique furniture handbook. ([Watkins Glen, N. Y.] : [Century House], [©1950-]), by Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le livre des collectionneurs / (Paris : Renouard, 1885), by Alphonse Maze-Sencier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of miniature art. With notes on collectors and collections. (London, New York, Macmillan and co., 1887), by John Lumsden Propert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Magazine antiques. ([New York : Straight Publications]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur ; essays on the romantic and picturesque association of art and artists. (New York : Longmans, Green, 1897), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité. (Paris, Bureaux de la Gazette des beaux-arts.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to collectors. 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, ([London, Glasgow, etc.], McCarquodale & co; New York, C. Scribner's sons, [1907]), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pantheon : addressbuch der kunst- und antiquitätensammler und -händler, bibliotheken, archive, museen, kunst-, altertums- und geschichtsvereine, bücherliebhaber, numismatiker; ein handbuch für das sammelwesen der ganzen welt / (Eszlingen a. N. : P. Neff verlag (M. Schreiber), 1914), by Joseph Zenker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Davis' standard collectors directory of North America : containing a full list of names and addresses of reliable collectors in ornithology, oology, mineralogy, archaeology, conchology, philately, numismatics, taxidermy and mammalogy. (Gainesville, Texas : Gainesville Printing Co., 1895), by Edwin C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania Dutch stuff, a guide to country antiques, (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania press, 1944), by Earl Francis Robacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC of collecting old English china, giving a short history of the English factories, and showing how to apply tests for unmarked china before 1800. (London, Paul, [1921]), by J. F. Blacker and William Bemrose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Byways of collecting / (London : Cassell, 1908), by Ethel Deane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The unpublishable memoirs / (New York : M. Kennerley, 1917), by A. S. W. Rosenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting as a pastime, (London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd., 1920), by Charles Rowed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The commonsense collector: a handbook of hints on the collecting and the housing of antique furniture, (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), by Frank Frankfort Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionnaire des amateurs français au XVIIe siècle. (Paris, A. Quantin, 1884), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rare books and their prices; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain, and postage stamps. (New York Longmans, Green, 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazette des beaux-arts ([Paris, s.n.]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kōko ruisan / (Tōkyō : Kōkosha Jimusho, Meiji 33-<36> [1900-<1903>]), by Yorikuni Inoue, Sugimura Kosugi, Yukimaro Miyazaki, and Kōkosha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Connoisseur. ([London, National Magazine Co., etc.]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The antiquarian : a monthly magazine for the collector of antiques, works of art, and rarities. (New York : Antiquarian Pub. Co., -c1931) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Pleasures of Collecting, by Gardner C. Teall (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gentle Art of Faking: A history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present day, by Riccardo Nobili (Gutenberg ebook)
• Collecting as a Pastime, by Charles Rowed (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Confessions of a Collector, by William Carew Hazlitt (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Unpublishable Memoirs, by A. S. W. Rosenbach (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors, by Arthur Hayden (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Oriental Rug: A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors., by William De Lancey Ellwanger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chats on Household Curios, by Fred. W. Burgess (Gutenberg ebook)

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