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• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

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

• Romantic Castles and Palaces as Seen and Described by Famous Writers (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1901), ed. by Esther Singleton (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Liechtenstein Palaces in Vienna From the Age of the Baroque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), by Hellmut Lorenz, illust. by Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Chinese Gardens: Gardens of the Contemporary Scene, An Account of Their Design and Symbolism, by Dorothy Graham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia (London: Printed for the author, 1764), by Robert Adam
  • page images at Wisconsin
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Hampton Court (London et al.: Blackie and Son Ltd., 1912), by Walter Jerrold, illust. by E. W. Haslehust (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Royal Palaces and Parks of France (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1910), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Kevin J. Avery and Peter L. Fodera (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• "La Malmaison": Les Roses de l'Impératrice Joséphine (in French; Paris: Editions d'art et de Littérature, c1912), by Jules Gravereaux, contrib. by Frédéric Masson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Annuaire de la Société des Amis du Palais des Papes et des Monuments d'Avignon (in French) (partial serial archives)

• An Adventure (London: Macmillan and Co., 1911), by C. A. E. Moberly and Eleanor F. Jourdain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images in Hong Kong

• Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico de Montefeltro (c2008), by Robert Kirkbride (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Alhambra (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1891), by Washington Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Alhambra (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)

• Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1992), by Gülru Necipoğlu (PDF files with commentary at MIT)

• Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850 (2 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Frederick E. Forbes (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Terre de Mort (Soudan et Dahomey) (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1892), by Paul Vigné d'Octon
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: The Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Languages, &c. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1890), by A. B. Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language (London: Seeleys, 1852), by Samuel Crowther, contrib. by Owen Emerich Vidal
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850 (2 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Frederick E. Forbes (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• At the Back of the Black Man's Mind: or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa (1906), by R. E. Dennett (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Oshielle, or, Village Life in the Yoruba Country: From the Journals and Letters of a Catechist There, Describing the Rise of A Christian Church in an African Village (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1857), by M. A. S. Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (New York: T. Hamilton; et al., 1861), by Martin Robison Delany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (from a reprint edition, date unknown), by Martin Robison Delany (Gutenberg text)

• Oshielle, or, Village Life in the Yoruba Country: From the Journals and Letters of a Catechist There, Describing the Rise of A Christian Church in an African Village (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1857), by M. A. S. Barber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion: Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by J. D. Y. Peel
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE

• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)