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• Colonial furniture

• Furniture of the pilgrim century (of American origin) 1620-1720 : with maple and pine to 1800, including colonial utensils and wrought-iron house hardward into the 19th century (Old America Co., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The quest of the colonial (The Century Company, 1908), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial furniture (Bruce Pub. Co., 1935), by John Gerald Shea and Paul Nolt Wenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American renaissance; a manual for teachers (Brown-Robertson Co., 1925), by Theodore Milton Dillaway and Sherrill Whiton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The quest of the colonial (Century, 1913), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the colonial (The Penn publishing company, 1927), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial furniture in America (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by Luke Vincent Lockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The furniture of our forefathers (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916), by Esther Singleton and Russell Sturgis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the colonial (The Century Company, 1908), by Robert Shackleton and Elizabeth Shackleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Naomi Wood collection, "an illustration of household gear during Colonial years" : Woodford Mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. ([Philadelphia], 1947), by Pa.) Woodford Mansion (Organization : Philadelphia and Naomi Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American furniture : including fine Chippendale and Hepplewhite examples and important early New England pieces ; fine American silver by prominent silversmiths ... the property of Israel Sack ... : unrestricted public sale, October 15, 16 & 17 at 2:15 p.m. (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1931), by Anderson Galleries American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American furniture and paintings : early American silver, Washingtoniana & related historical bibelots, Currier & Ives prints, oriental lowestoft porcelain, hooked rugs : property from the estates of the late Mrs. C. Wickliffe Yulee ... [et al.] : together with the famous Audubon painting, Spaniel flushing English pheasants, belonging to Trig Thordarson : public auction sale, January 11 and 12. (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1950), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Important colonial furniture & decorations : including the General John Stark heirlooms, two historic portraits by J. S. Copley ... : property of Israel Sack ... : unrestricted public sale, November 7-8-9 at 2:15 p.m. (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1929), by Anderson Galleries American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American and English eighteenth century furniture : Early American and Georgian silver ... : public sale, Friday and Saturday, November 29 and 30 at 2 p.m. (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1935), by Anderson Galleries American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rare early American silver (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1940), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Early American furniture : hooked rugs, mechanical banks, china, early American and other silver, paintings and oriental rugs : property of B. W. Lockwood, John C. Livingston, James L. Hutchinson, and other owners, sold by their owners : public auction sale, January 28 and 29 [1942] at 2 o'clock. (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1942), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Furniture of the pilgrim century (of American origin) 1620-1720 : with maple and pine to 1800, including colonial utensils and wrought-iron house hardward into the 19th century (Old America Co., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rare early American silver (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1940), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Loan exhibition of early American furniture and the decorative crafts : for the benefit of Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Mass. (s.n., 1925), by Boston (Mass.). Park Square Building (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: Giving Attention to the City's Chief Craftsmen in the Furniture Way; And to Their Tools & Methods of Working, by Johannes Heuvel, ed. by Thomas K. Ford, contrib. by Mills Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• How to Know Period Styles in Furniture (Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Rapids Furniture Record Co., 1912), by William Lowing Kimerly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and H.N. Abrams; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), contrib. by Amelia Peck, James Parker, William Rieder, Olga Raggio, Mary B. Shepard, Annie-Christine Daskalakis Mathews, Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Wolfram Koeppe, Joan R. Mertens, Alfreda Murck, and Wen Fong, illust. by Karin L. Willis (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Historic Styles in Furniture (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by Virginia Robie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elements of style in furniture and woodwork : being a series of details of the Italian, German Renaissance, Elizabethan, Louis XIVth, Louis XV th, Louis XVIth, Sheraton, Adams, Empire, Chinese, Japanese, and Moresque styles carefully drawn from the best examples, for the use of architects, furniture designers, cabinet makers, and others (The Author, 1889), by Robert Brook (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief outline of period furniture and interior decoration. (The Lammert Furniture Co., 1940), by St. Louis Lammert Furniture Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A series of designs of furniture & decoration in the styles of Louis XVIth., Francis 1st., Elizabeth, and Gothic. (W. Pickering, 1845), by Henry Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to know period styles in furniture; a brief history of furniture from the days of ancient Egypt to the present time (Periodical Publishing Company, 1917), by William Lowing Kimerly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Meubles allemands, tomes 1-2 (Verlegt von Jeremias Wolffs, 1720), by Johann Jacob Schübler (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991), by Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert Tapley Vincent (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• English household furniture : mainly designed by Chippendale, Sheraton, Adam, and others of the Georgian period. One hundred plates, illustrating three hundred and forty-eight examples. (Bates & Guild co., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture, objects d'art & embroideries ... the property of ... the Marquess of Reading ... to be sold ... January fifteenth ... (The Anderson Galleries, 1927), by Rufus Daniel Isaacs Reading and Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Most Approved Taste: Displaying a Great Variety of Patterns ... in the Plainest and Most Enriched Styles: With a Scale to Each, and an Explanation in Letter Press: Also, the Plan of a Room, Shewing the Proper Distribution of the Furniture, from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and Co. (reprinted from 1794 I. and J. Taylor third edition; London: B.T. Batsford, 1897), by A. Hepplewhite and Co., contrib. by George Hepplewhite (page images at Wisconsin)

• Universal system of household furniture (To be had of the authors & at A. Weoblys ..., 1762), by William Ince, A. Webley, Matthias Darly, and John Mayhew (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gothic ornaments of the 15th & 16th centuries ([s.l., 1860), by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Album gothique : recueil de meubles et sièges. (Publié par D. Guilmard, in the 1850s), by Désiré Guilmard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gothic furniture : in the style of the 15th century (Ackermann & Co., 1835), by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mittelalterliches Holzmobiliar : vierzig Tafeln in Lichtdruck (A. Schroll, 1894), by Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst and Jacob von Falke (page images at HathiTrust)

• La casa fiorentina e i suoi arredi nei secoli XIV e XV (Le Lettere, 1908), by Attilio Schiaparelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mission Furniture: How to Make It (3 parts; Chicago: Popular Mechanics Co., c1909-1912), by H. H. Windsor
  • Part 1: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Part 2: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Part 3: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Household furniture and interior decoration (Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), by Thomas Hope (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mobilier et décoration des anciens palais impériaux russes (Musés du peuple) (S. van Oest, 1928), by G. K. Lukomskii (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne, by J. P. Blake and A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins (Gutenberg ebook)

• Jacobean furniture and English styles in oak and walnut (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916), by Helen Churchill Candee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut, by Helen Churchill Candee (Gutenberg ebook)

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