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Frequently Cited References


The following works are often cited in our catalogue entries.

Abbey

Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860. From the Library of J. R. Abbey. 2 volumes. London, 1956.

Anker

Jean Anker. Bird Books and Bird Art. Amsterdam, 1979.

Atabey

?efik Atabey. The Ottoman World: The ?efik E. Atabey Collection. 2 volumes. London, 1998.

Balis

Jan Balis. Merveilleux plumages: dix siécles de livres d’oixeaux. Brussels, 1968.

Benezit

E. E. Benezit. Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs…. 10 volumes. Paris, 1976.

Bennett

Whitman Bennett. A Practical Guide to American Nineteenth  Century Color Plate Books. New York, 1949.

Berlin

Erster Band. Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek. 2 volumes. Utrecht, 1986.

BM (NH)

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History). 5 volumes. London, 1903-1915; with Supplement. 3 volumes. London, 1922-1940.

Borba de Moraes

Ruben Borba de Moraes. Bibliographia Brasiliana. 2 volumes. Los Angeles, 1983.

Brunet

Jacques-Charles Brunet. Manuel du librarie et de l’amateur de livres. 7 volumes. Paris, 1860-1878.

Clark

Thomas D. Clark. Travels in the Old South…. Three volumes. Norman, [1956].

Clark, New South

Thomas D. Clark. Travels in the New South…. 2 volumes. Norman, 1962.

Cohen/de Ricci

Seymour de Ricci. The Book Collector’s Guide. Philadelphia, 1921.

Colas

René Colas. Bibliographie Générale du Costume et de la Mode. 2 volumes. New York, 1969.

Conningham

Frederic A. Conningham. Currier & Ives Prints. An Illustrated Checklist (Revised Edition). New York, 1970.

Cowan

Robert E. Cowan and Robert G. Cowan. A Bibliography of the History of California…. Second Edition. San Francisco, 1933.

Cox

Edward Godfrey Cox. A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. 3 volumes. Seattle, 1835-1949.

DAB

Dictionary of American Biography…. 21 volumes. New York, 1928-1937.

Dance

S. Peter Dance. The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and Their Work. London, 1978.

Deak

Gloria-Gilda Deak, Picturing America. Volume I. Princeton, 1988.

DNB

Dictionary of National Biography…. 24 volumes. London, 1908-1912.

Dunthorne

Gordon Dunthorne. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Washington, D.C., 1938.

Ellis

Robert M. Mengel. A Catalogue of the Ellis Collection of Ornithological Books in the University of Kansas Libraries.  2 volumes (all currently published). Lawrence, KS, 1972-1983.

Evans

Charles Evans. American Bibliography…[American imprints before 1801]. 14 volumes. New York, 1903-1934/55.

Ferguson

John Alexander Ferguson. Bibliography of Australia. Seven volumes. Sydney, 1941-1969.

Field

Thomas W. Field. An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography…. New Haven, 1991.

Fine Bird Books

Sacheverell Sitwell & Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. London, 1990.

Gale

Gale Research Company, Currier & Ives: A Catalogue Raisonné. 2 volumes. Detroit, 1984.

Gay

Jean Gay. Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'Afrique et à l'Arabie. Mansfield, 1998.

Graff

Colton Storm. A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection. Chicago, 1968.

Great Flower Books

Sacheverell Sitwell and Wilfrid Blunt. Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely Illustrated Flower Books. New York, 1990.

Hill

Ronald Louis Silveira de Braganza, Charlotte Oakes, and Jonathan A. Hill. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voages. 3 volumes. San Diego, 1974-1983.

Howes

Wright Howes. U.S.iana (1650-1950). New York, 1962.

Ibrahim-Hilmy

H.H. Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy. The Literature Of Egypt And The Soudan From The Earliest Times To The Year 1885 Inclusive. A Bibliography: Comprising Printed Books, Periodical Writings, and Papers of Learned Societies; Maps and Charts; Ancient Papyri, Manuscripts, Drawings, &c. 2 volumes in 1. Cambridge, 1994.

Koeman

Ir. C. Koeman. Atlantes Neerlandici. Volumes 1-6. Amsterdam, 1967-1985.

Lada-Mocarski

Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published before 1868. New Haven and London, 1969.

Lipperheide

Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostümbibliothek. 2 volumes. Berlin, 1965.

Le Blanc

Le Blanc, Manuel de L'Amateur D'Estampes. 3 volumes. Paris, 1854.

Lowndes

William Thomas Lowndes. The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature. Revised by Henry G. Bohn. 5 volumes. London, 1869.

Martin & Martin

James C. Martin and Robert Sidney Martin. Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900. Albuquerque, 1984.

Nissen, BBI

Claus Nissen. Die botanische Buchillustration. Stuttgart, 1951.

Nissen, IVB

Claus Nissen. Die illustrierten Vogelbücher. Stuttgart, 1953.

Nissen, ZBI

Claus Nissen. Die oologische Buchillustration. Stuttgart, 1969.

NUC

The National Union Catalogue. 752 volumes. Mansell, 1968-1981.

O’Donoghue

Freeman O'Donoghue. Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. London, 1922.

Olds

Irving S. Olds. Bits and Pieces of American History. New York, 1974.

Palau

Antonio Palau y Dulcet. Manual del librero Hispano-Americano…. 28 volumes plus 7 volumes index and addenda volume. Barcelona, 1948-1990.

Phillips Atlases

Philip L. Phillips. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress…. 8 volumes including volumes 5-8 by Clara Le Gear. Washington, 1909-1920/1958-1974.

Pilling

James C. Pilling. Proof-Sheets…American Indian Languages. Washington, 1885.

Prideaux

S. T. Prideaux. Aquatint Engraving. London, 1968.

Pritzel

G. A. Pritzel. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae. Leipzig, 1871-1877.

Reese

William S. Reese. Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books. An Exhibition. New York, 1999.

Ripley

S. Dillon Ripley and Lynette L. Scribner. Ornithological Books in the Yale University Library. New Haven, 1961.

Ristow

Walter Ristow, American Maps & Mapmakers. Detroit, 1985.

Ronsil

René Ronsil. Bibliographie ornithologique française…1473 à 1944. 2 volumes. Paris, 1948-1949.

Ronsil, L’Art

René Ronsil. L’Art français dans le livre d’oiseaux. Paris, 1957.

Rumsey

David M. Rumsey. Cartography Collection of David M. Rumsey. 1995.

Russell

Charles E. Russell, English Mezzotint Portraits, and their States. London, 1926.

Sabin

Joseph Sabin. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America.29 volumes. New York, 1868-1936.

Sauer

Gordon C. Sauer. John Gould: The Bird Man. Lawrence, KS, 1982.

Schwartz & Ehrenberg

Seymour I. Schwartz and Ralph E. Ehrenberg. The Mapping of America. New York, [1980].

Schwerdt

C. F. G. R. Schwerdt. Hunting, Hawking, Shooting Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscritps, Prints, and Drawings. 4 volumes. London, 1928-1937.

Shaw & Shoemaker

Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. Americana Bibliography…[continued as:]…American Imprints…. 45 volumes. New York, 1958-1997.

Siltzer

Captain Frank Siltzer. The Story of British Sporting Prints. New York, 1925.

Skelton

R.A. Skelton. County Atlases of the British Isles 1579 - 1850. London, 1970.

Snelgrove

Dudley Snelgrove. The Paul Mellon Collection. British Sporting and Animal Prints, 1658-1874. London and New Haven, 1981.

Stafleu

F. A. Stafleu and R. S. Cowan. Taxonomic Literature, volumes I-VI. Utrecht, 1976-1986.

Stauffer

David Stauffer, Mantle Fielding and Thomas Hovey Gage. American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel. 4 volumes in 3. New Castle, 1994.

Streeter

The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed by the Late Thomas Winthrop Streeter. 8 volumes. New York: Parke-Bernet, 1966-1969.

Thieme/Becker

Thieme/Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der bilden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart; unter Mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes. 37 volumes. Leipzig, 1907-1950.

Tobler

Titus Tobler. Bibliographia Geographica Palaestinae. Amsterdam, 1964.

Tooley

R. V. Tooley. Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers. New York, 1979.

Tyler

Ron Tyler. Audubon's Great National Work. The Royal Octavo Edition of the Birds of America. Austin, 1993.

Wagner

Henry R. Wagner. The Spanish Southwest…. 2 volumes. 2nd edition. New York, 1967.

Wheat, Transmississippi

Carl I. Wheat. 1540-1861 Mapping the Transmississippi West….  6 volumes. San Francisco, 1957-1963.

Whittell

Hubert Massey Whittell. The Literature of Australian Birds: A History and a Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth, 1954.

Wood

Casey A. Wood. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology. London, 1931.

Zamorano

The Zamorano 80…. Los Angeles, 1945.

Zimmer

John Todd Zimmer. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library.  2 volumes. Chicago, 1926.