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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
• The collecting of antiques. (Macmillan, 1937), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some notes on American pewterers (Printed for L. G. Myers by Country Life Press, 1926), by Louis Guerineau Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC of Japanese art (S. Paul & co., 1929), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les antiquaires lyonnais de la renaissance. (M. Audin et compagnie, 1924), by Mathieu Varille (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The connoisseur ; essays on the romantic and picturesque association of art and artists. (Longmans, Green, 1897), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le commerce de la curiosité. (H. Champion, 1895), by Edmond Bonnaffé (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 (Seeley, Service & Co., ltd., 1922), by Riccardo Nobili (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oh! fickle taste; or, Objectivity in art. (B. Wheelwright Co., 1952), by Germain Seligman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Agassiz journal for curiosity collectors. (Lynn, Mass., 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de reconnaître les fraudes : peinture, sculpture, gravure, meubles, dentelles, céramique, etc. ... (R. Roger et F. Chernoviz, 1920), by Emile Bayard (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... (The Atlantic monthly press, 1919), by Alice Van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations of an autograph collector (Harper, 1902), by Adrian H. Joline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles in autograph land (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1913), by Adrian H. Joline and Mary E. Joline (page images at HathiTrust)
• The confessions of a collector (Ward & Downey, limited, 1897), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rare books and their prices; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain, and postage stamps. (G. Redway, 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rariora; being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., collected (1858-1900) (S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd., 1902), by John Eliot Hodgkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes from a collector's catalogue, with a bibliography of English cookery books (J. and E. Bumpus, limited, 1909), by Arnold Whitaker Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unpublishable memoirs (M. Kennerley, 1917), by A. S. W. Rosenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (P. Neff verlag (M. Schreiber), 1914), by Joseph Zenker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pantheon; internationales adressbuch der kunst- und antiquitäten-sammler und -händler, bibliotheken, archive, museen, numismatiker; ein handbuch für das sammelwesen der ganzen welt. (P. Neff, 1926), by Albert Schramm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Byways of collecting (Cassell, 1908), by Ethel Deane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some hobby horses (W. H. Allen & co., 1890), by C. A. Montresor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibelots and curios: a manual for collectors, with a glossary of technical terms. (D. Appleton, 1879), by Frederic Vors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglo-American pottery : old English china with American views, a manual for collectors (Press of the Clay-worker, 1899), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• American pewter (Houghton Mifflin, 1924), by John Barrett Kerfoot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting antiques (John Lane;, 1928), by William Gladstone Menzies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• More about collecting (G. W. Jacobs & co., 1913), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Hotel des commissaires-priseurs (E. Dentu, 1867), by Champfleury (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 ("The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart,", 1922), by Maurice James Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An encyclopedia of antiques (Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937), by Harold Lewis Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American craftsmen (The Century Company, 1915), by Walter A. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in collecting (Dodd, Mead & co., 1926), by Grace M. Vallois (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 (McCarquodale & co;, 1907), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Royal Copenhagen porcelain : its history and development from the eighteenth century to the present day (McBride, Nast & co., 1912), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kōko ruisan (Kōkosha Jimusho, 1900), by Yorikuni Inoue, Sugimura Kosugi, Yukimaro Miyazaki, and Kōkosha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The collector's manual (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1906), by N. Hudson Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hobby protection act/antique glassware and china hearing, Ninety-third Congress, first session, February 28, 1973. (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)
• The lure of the antique (The Century Company, 1910), by Walter A. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The junk snupper : the adventures of an antique collector (The Macmillan company, 1927), by C. R. Clifford (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. (The Century company, 1912), by Virginia Huntington Robie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Care and repair of antiques (Gramercy, 1949), by Thomas H. Ormsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A button collector's journal (Hightstown, N.J., 1941), by Lillian Smith Albert (page images at HathiTrust)
• About antiques (J. B. Lippincott company, 1929), by Ella Shannon Bowles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Secrets of an art dealer (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1938), by James Henry Duveen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bye-paths in curio collecting (T.F. Unwin ltd., 1919), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bargain book (Chatto & Windus, 1911), by Charles Edward Wynne Jerningham and Lewis Bettany (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The collecting of antiques (Macmillan, 1926), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in collecting (T.W. Laurie, ltd., 1913), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The quest of the colonial (The Century company, 1921), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (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 (G. W. Jacobs & co., 1911), by J. F. Blacker and William Bemrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old silver spoons of England, a practical guide for collectors (H. Jenkins limited, 1926), by Norman Gask (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1911), by Arthur Hayden and Hugh Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on old pewter. (A. A. Wyn, 1949), by H. J. L. J. Massé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young collector (D. Appleton, 1928), by Wheeler McMillen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania Dutch stuff, a guide to country antiques (University of Pennsylvania press, 1944), by Earl Francis Robacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collecting of antiques (Macmillan, 1944), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on old silver. (T.F. Unwin, ltd., 1925), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causeries sur l'art et la curiosité (A. Quantin, 1878), by Edmond Bonnaffé and Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unpublishable memoirs (J. Castle, 1924), by A. S. W. Rosenbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japanese collectors and what they collect (The Bookfellows, 1921), by Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collector's luck in Spain. (Little, Brown, 1930), by Alice van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting as a pastime (Cassell and company, ltd., 1920), by Charles Rowed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité (E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the colonial (The Century Company, 1907), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les collectionneurs de l'ancienne Rome : notes d'un amateur. (A. Aubry, 1873), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antique furniture handbook. ([Century House], 1950), by Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plea for art in the house, with special reference to the economy of collecting works of art (Porter & Coates, 1876), by W. J. Loftie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sredi kollekt͡sionerov. (1917), by Ivan Lazarevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Art treasures and intrigue (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1935), by James Henry Duveen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical book of American antiques, exclusive of furniture (J. B. Lippincott company, 1927), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Lenore Wheeler Williams, Mabel Foster. b. 1885 Bainbridge, and Abbot McClure (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anglo-American pottery; old English china with American views; a manual for collectors (Press of Patterson & White Company, 1901), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collector's luck (The Atlantic monthly press, 1919), by Alice van Leer Carrick (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. (T. W. Laurie ltd., 1921), by Felix Gade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture ... (T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Arthur Hayden and Hugh Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chats on old silver (T. F. Unwin, 1917), by Arthur Hayden (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 Opinion Curio Club, 1908), by J. F. Blacker (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 (S. Low, Marston & co. ltd., 1913), by George Frederic William Lees and Émile Wauters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lace & embroidery collector; a guide to collectors of old lace and embroidery (Dodd, Mead and company, 1922), by R. E. Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of an expert (H. Jenkins, 1925), by George Charles Williamson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rare books and their prices : with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain and postage stamps (Longmans, Green & Co., 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité (E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pewter collector; a guide to English pewter with some reference to foreign work (H. Jenkins, 1921), by H. J. L. J. Massé (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 (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903), by William De Lancey Ellwanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Chapman & Hall, 1856), by J. C. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The connoisseur : essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of art and artists. (Longmans, Green & Co., 1897), by ROBINSON (F.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC of Japanese art (S. Paul & co., 1911), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rare books and their prices ; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain, and postage stamps. (G. Redway, 1895), by W. Roberts (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 (American Art Association, 1917), by Alexander Crombie Humphreys, Dana H. Carroll, and American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sredi kollekt͡sionerov (Izd. A.I. Grammatikova, 1914), by Ivan Ivanovich Lazarevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The silver and Sheffield plate collector; a guide to English domestic metal work in old silver and old Sheffield plate (H. Jenkins Ltd., 1919), by W. A. Young (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 ... (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. (Putnam, 1922), by Felix Gade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C about collecting (S. Paul & co., 1910), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the quaint (Little, Brown, and company, 1916), by Virginia Robie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of miniature art. With notes on collectors and collections. (Macmillan and co., 1887), by John Lumsden Propert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstgewerbliche Altertümer und Kuriositäten : Führer für Sammler und Liebhaber von Gegenständen der Kleinkunst, von Antiquitäten sowie bon Kuriositäten (R.C. Schmidt, 1916), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Franz M. Feldhaus, and Friedrich Jaennicke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fell's collector's guide to valuable antiques. (F. Fell, 1963), by Howard R. Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living with antiques; a treasury of private homes in America. (E.P. Dutton, 1963), by Alice Winchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Button classics (Lightner publishing co., 1941), by Laura Erwina Blanchard Couse and Marguerite Maple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The practical book of American antiques, exclusive of furniture (Garden City Pub. Co., 1927), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Lenore Wheeler Williams, Mabel Foster Bainbridge, and Abbot McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• American pewter (Crown publishers, 1942), by John Barrett Kerfoot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pleasures of collecting (The Century company, 1920), by Gardner C. Teall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mother Goose for antique collectors (Payson & Clarke, ltd., 1927), by Alice van Leer Carrick and Kenneth Allan Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical book of American antiques, exclusive of furniture. (J.B. Lippincott, 1928), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Lenore Wheeler Williams, Mabel Foster Bainbridge, and Abbot McClure (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old beautiful (Mills & Boon, 1926), by Thomas Rohan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ABC of Japanese art (Copp, Clark, 1911), by J. F. Blacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sold to the lady in the green hat. (Dodd, Mead, 1962), by Emma Bailey (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 (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1903), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Merkwuerdigkeitne der Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Wien und ihrer nächsten Umgebungen; ein Handbuch für Einheimische und Fremde. (Gedruckt bey B. Ph. Bauer, 1823), by Franz Heinrich Boeckh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collectionneur suisse (Verlag "Apiarius" (Paul Haupt)., 1927), by Vereinigung Schweizerischer Bibliothekare and Schweizerische Bibliophilen Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Every girl's book of hobbies (T. Nelson and sons, Ltd., 1925), by E. M. de Foubert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Meditations of an autograph collector (Harper & Bros., Publishers, 1902), by Adrian H. Joline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The connoisseur, essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of artists. (G. Redway, 1897), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The commonsense collector: a handbook of hints on the collecting and the housing of antique furniture (Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), by Frank Frankfort Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old silver (T. Fisher Unwin, ltd., 1915), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting old miniatures (W. Heinemann, 1916), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal Copenhagen porcelain; its history and development from the eighteenth century to the present day (T. F. Unwin, 1911), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of the old masters (Harper, 1899), by Cennino Cennini (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. (Paul, 1921), by J. F. Blacker and William Bemrose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rariora : being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., collected (1858-1900) (S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd., 1902), by John Eliot Hodgkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• La tienda de antigüedades (Impr. de El Progreso, 1892), by Eduardo Arias J (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting old lustre ware (George H. Doran co., 1917), by W. Bosanko (page images at HathiTrust)
• English pottery and porcelain: a handbook for the collector. (L. U. Gill, 1904), by Edward Andrews Downman and Aubrey D. Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to collectors. (McCorquodale & Co., 1902), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Magazine antiques 1928-July 1952 (F.E. Atwood, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old pewter (T. F. Unwin, 1911), by H. J. L. J. Massé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to collect old furniture (G. Bell and sons, 1904), by Frederick Litchfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (Ernest Benn, 1920), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (T. A. Strange, 1910), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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. (American Art Association, 1917), by Samuel Henry Austin and American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage dans un grenier; bouquins, faïences, autographes & bibelots. (D. Morgand & C. Fatout, 1878), by Charles Marie Gabriel Cousin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sredi kollekt︠s︡īonerov (Izd-vo Z.I. Grzhebina, 1922), by Iv Lazarevskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les propos de Valentin (J. Rouam, éditeur ;, 1886), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études sur l'art et la curiosité (Société française d'éditions d'art, 1902), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le livre des collectionneurs (Renouard, 1885), by Alphonse Maze-Sencier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ABC about collecting (Copp, Clark, 1910), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First steps in collecting (Bell & Cockburn, 1919), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• More about collecting (J.M. Dent, 1913), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On collecting engravings, pottery, porcelain, glass and silver (E. Arnold, 1905), by Robert Elward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber Kunstsammlungen in alter und neuer Zeit (Verlag der k.b. Akademie, In Commission des Franz'schen Verlags (J. Roth), 1899), by Adolf Furtwängler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collector, containing articles and illustrations, reprinted from The Queen newspaper, of interest to the great body of collectors, on china, engravings, etc. (London, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rare books and their prices; with chapters on pictures, pottery, porcelain, and postage stamps. (G. Redway;, 1896), by W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• English pottery and porcelain; being a concise account of the development of the potter's art in England. (Gill, 1896), by Edward Andrews Downman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Timbre-poste et la timbromanie. (Charpentier, 1885), by Paul Eudel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fine prints (Longmans, Green and company, 1897), by Frederick Wedmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of an old collector (Longmans, Green, and co., 1898), by Michaì Tyszkiewicz and Mrs. Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• English pottery and porcelain : a handbook for the collector (L. Upcott Gill, 1910), by Edward Andrews Downman and Aubrey D. Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 (McCorquodale & Co., 1890), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the antique; being some personal experiences in the finding of old furniture (J. Milne, 1908), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy collector's handbook (R. M. McBride & co., 1915), by A. Hyatt Verrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• More about collecting (S. Paul & Co., 1913), by J. H. Yoxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Société des bibliophiles françois, 1873), by Lazare Duvaux, Louis Courajod, and France) Société des bibliophiles françois (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old furniture; a practical guide for collectors (F. A. Stokes company, 1905), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (F. A. Stokes, 1906), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few facts citizens of Illinois should know about the famous Abraham Lincoln historical collection of Oliver R. Barrett. ([Chicago, 1950), by Ill.) Lincoln Historical Fund Campaign (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How you can help save the great Lincoln historical collection: the Barrett Lincoln collection ... (Lincoln Historical Fund Campaign, 1950), by Ill.) Lincoln Historical Fund Campaign (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collecting and hobbies, with special reference to coin, medal and paper money collecting. (Elder Numismatic Press, 1917), by Frederick S. Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Augsburger patriciers Philipp Hainhofer beziehungen zum herzog Philipp II. von Pommern-Stettin. Correspondenzen aus den jahren 1610-1619 (C. Graeser, 1896), by Philipp Hainhofer and Oscar Doering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bibliophiles et les collectionneurs provençaux, anciens et modernes. Arondissement de Marseille. (Berthelet, 1897), by Emile Perrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collecting Greek coins (W. Raymond, inc., 1937), by Paul S. Szego (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Button collecting. ([Lightner publishing company], 1939), by Polly De Steiguer Crummett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of New England antiques. (Current Books, 1950), by Edwin Valentine Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Buying antique and modern furniture in Paris (R. M. McBride & company, 1929), by Mabel Thérèse Bonney and Louise Bonney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collectors and collecting. (Art Treasures of the World, 1954), by W. G. Constable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of hobbies; or, A guide to happiness (Minton, Balch & company, 1924), by Charles William Taussig and Theodore Arthur Meyer (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. (Gill, 1911), by Maurice James Gunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Connaissances nécessaires à un amateur d'objets d'art et de curiosité (E. Rouveyre, 1879), by Ancel Oppenheim (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. ([Bradbury, Agnew, & co., printers, the "Whitefriars" press], 1888), by George Redford (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... (Atlantic monthly press, 1923), by Alice van Leer Carrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A B C about collecting (Dutton, 1923), by J. H. Yoxall (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. (Imprimerie Georges Petit, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Antiques and their history." (Binghamton, N.Y., 1927), by Leo John Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gun collector's handbook of values (The author, 1940), by Charles Edward Chapel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First steps in collecting furnitute, glass, china. (McBride, 1950), by Grace M. Vallois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunstgewerbliche Altertümer und Kuriositäten (R.C. Schmidt, 1920), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Franz M. Feldhaus, and Friedrich Jaennicke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lure of amateur collecting (Little, Brown, and company, 1923), by George Blake Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to collect old furniture (G. Bell and sons, 1906), by Frederick Litchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The amateur collector; everybody's book on collecting (R.M. McBride and Co., 1924), by George C. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americana, Adventures in (Metropolitan Press, 1935), by Frederick Woodward Skiff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A storehouse of antiques. (R. M. McBride, 1947), by Thomas H. Ormsbee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The practical book of American antiques. (Halcyon House, 1948), by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbot McClure (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Racontars illustrés d'un vieux collectionneur (La Librairie de "L'Art", 1887), by Charles Marie Gabriel Cousin and Félix Régamey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Weiner Gemäldsammlungen. (G.H. Meyer, 1899), by Theodor von Frimmel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Williamsburg restoration reproductions : a selection from the Craft House. (Williamsburg Restoration, 1958), by Incorporated Williamsburg Restoration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian relics and their story, a handbook for collectors. (Printed by Franklin Print co., 1954), by Hugh C. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American pewter (Bonanza Books, 1924), by J. B. Kerfoot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiques ([Antiques, Inc.], 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collector's manual (Chapman & Hall, ltd., 1907), by N. Hudson Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lure of amateur collecting (Hutchinson, 1924), by George Blake Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The antique shop (Rosenthal & Smythe, 1952), by Louise Shepard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical collecting ... (Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on the collection of transfers (Dorrance and Co., 1926), by William James Sidis (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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, illust. by Oliver Herford (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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