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Albert

Daniel M. Albert, Edward W.D. Norton and Reva Hurtes, Source Book of Ophthalmology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995)

Anderson, Burnett and Gee

R.G.W. Anderson, J. Burnett and B. Gee, eds, Handlist of scientific instrument-makers’ trade catalogues 1600–1914
(Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1990)

Anrtzen and Rainwater

Etta Arntzen and Robert Rainwater, Guide to the Literature of Art History (Chicago, 1980)

Ashworth

William B. Ashworth, Jr. and Bruce Bradley, Theories of the earth 1644–1830, the History of a Genre (Kansas City, Missouri, 1984)

Babson

Henry P. Macomber, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton and the Material relating to him in the Babson Institute Library Babson Park, Mass. (New York, 1950; Supplement, Babson Park, Massachusetts, 1955; Second supplement, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002)

Bakken

Judith A. Overmier and John Edward Senior Books and Manuscripts of the Bakken (Metuchen, New Jersey, 1992)

Baudrier

Henri Louis Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise: recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au XVIe siècle (14 vols, Lyon, 1895–52).

Bayle and Thillaye

? Bayle and ? Thillaye Biographie Médicale par order Chronologique d’après Daniel Leclerc, Eloy, etc. Mise dans un Nouvel ordre, revue et complétée par MM. Bayle et Thillaye (2 vols, Paris, 1855, facsimile reprint, Amsterdam, 1967).

Becker

David P. Becker, The Practice of Letters. The Hofer Collection of Writing Manuals 1514–1800 (Harvard College Library, 1997)

Bénézit

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs (Novelle édition, 8 vols, Paris, 1965–1961).

Bennett and Mandelbrote

Jim Bennett and Scott Mandelbrote, The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple: Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1998)

Berlin

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (Berlin, 1939)

Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica

Catalogus van de Bibliotheek der Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Geneeskunst in Bruikleen Vereenigd met de Bibliotheek der Universiteit van Amsterdam (2 vols, Amsterdam, 1930–1949)

Blake

John B. Blake, A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century printed Books in the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, Maryland, 1979)

Bridson and Wakeman

Gavin Bridson and Geoffrey Wakeman, Printmaking and Picture Printing. A Bibliographical Guide to Artistic & Industrial Techniques in Britain 1750–1900 (Oxford and Williamsburg, Virginia, 1984)

Brunet

Jacques-Charles Brunet, Manuel du Libraire et de l’Amateur de Livres (5th ed., Paris, 1860-80, 6 vols and Supplément, 2 vols)

BUCOP

British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals (4 vols, Loindon, 1955–58)

Burke

John G. Burke, Origins of the Science of Crystals (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1966)

Buxbaum

Melvin H. Buxbaum Benjamin Franklin 1721–1906 a reference guide (Boston, 1983)

Cazort, Kornell and Roberts

Mimi Cazort, Monique Kornell and K.B. Roberts, The Ingenious Machine of Nature. Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy (Ottowa, 1996)

Choulant

Ludwig Choulant, translated and annotated by Mortimer Frank, History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration (Chicago, 1920; revised edition, New York, 1945)

Cicognara

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d’arte e d’antichita posseduti dal Conte Cicognara (2 vols, Pisa 1821).

Cioranescu

Bibliographie de la littérature française

Cockle

Maurice J.D. Cockle A Bibliography of Military Books up to 1642 (second edition, London, 1957)

Colas

René Colas, Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode (2 vols, Paris, 1912).

Cole

William A. Cole, Chemical Literature 1700–1860 (London, 1988)

Collison

Robert L. Collison, Dictionaires of English and Foreign Languages. A bibliographical Guide to both Technical Dictionaries with Historical and Explanatory Notes and References (second edition, New York, 1971)

Daumas

Maurice Daumas, translated by Dr Mary Holbrook Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Makers (London, 1972)

Davis and Dreyfuss

A.B. Davis and M.S. Dreyfuss The Finest Instrument ever made. A bibliography of medical, dental, optical and pharmaceutical company trade literature 1700–1939 (Arlington, Massachussets, 1986)

Dibner

Bern Dibner, Heralds of Science (Second edition, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1969)

DNB

Dictionary of National Biography (CD ROM, Oxford, 1996)

DSB

Charles Coulston Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography (16 vols, New York, 1970–1980)

Dueen and Klickstein

Denis I. Duveen and Herbert S. Klickstein, A bibliography of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoiser (London, 1954; Supplement by Duveen, London, 1965)

Edit16

Le Edizioni Italiane del xvi secolo Censimento Nazinale (2nd ed. Rome, 1990– ) and http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/iccu.htm

Ekström

Ove Hagelin, The Art of Writing and Drawing. A selection of one hundred books from the Ekström Collectino in the National Library for psychology and education Stockholm (Stockholm, 1987)

ESTC

English Short Title Catalogue (on-line database, accessed via Research Libraries Group).

Estreicher

K. Estreicher, Bibliografia Polska (Kraków, 1870– )

Faber Birren

The Faber Birren Collection of Books on Colour (New Haven, Connecticut, 1982)

Ferguson Chemica

John Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica. A Bibliography of books on Alchemy Chemistry and Pharmaceutics (London, 1954, 2 vols)

Ferguson Secrets

John Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Invention and Books of Secrets (London, 1959, 2 vols)

Fonds Française

Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds française (Paris 1931 – , in progress).

Ford

Paul Leicester Ford, Franklin Bibliography. A lit of books written by, or relating to Benjamin Franklin (? Place, 1889; reprint, Boston 1972)

Fowler

Laurence Hall Fowler and Elizabeth Baer, The Fowler Architectural Collection of the John Hopkins University (San Francisco, 1991)

Fulton

John F. Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society (Oxford, 1961)

Garrison-Morton

Jeremy M. Norman, ed., Morton’s Medical Bibliography: an annotated Check-list of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton) (Aldershot, 1991)

Gaskell, Barber and Warrilow

Philip Gaskell, Giles Barber and Georgina Warrilow, ‘An Annotated List of Printers’ Manuals to 1850’, Journal of the Printing Historical Society 4 (1968) 11–32 and ‘Addenda and Corrigenda’, 7 (1972) 65–66.

Goldsmiths'-Kress

Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature (http://www.ull.ac.uk/)

Graesse

Jean George Théodore Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares et Précieux ou Nouveau Dictionnarie Bibliographique (7 vols, Dresden, 1859–69, reprinted Cambridge, Mass 1993?)

Grove Dictionary of Art

Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary of Art (Groves, London, 1996)

Gültlingen

Sybille von Gültlingen, Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon au seizième siècle (8 vols, Baden-Baden, 1992–2002).

Haebler Konrad Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel des XVI. Jahrhunderts (2 vols, Leipzig, 1928-9).

Heirs of Hippocrates

Richard Eimas Heirs of Hippocrates. The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the University of Iowa (third edition, Iowa City, Iowa, 1990)

Hirsch

August Hirsch Biographishes Lexikon der hervorragenden Aerzte aller Zeiten und Völker (6 vols, Vienna and Leipzig, 1884, facsimile reprint Storrs-Mansfield, Connecticut, n.d.)

Hoefer

Johann C. F. Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie Universelle depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours (46 vols, Paris, 1853–1866)

Hoover

Bibliotheca De Re Metallica: The Herbert Clark Hoover collection of Mining and Metallurgy. Annotated by David Kuhner, catalogued by Tania Rizzo, introduced by Cyril Stanley Smith (Claremont, California, 1980)

Houzeau and Lancaster

J.C. Houzeau and A. Lancaster, Bibliographie générale de l’astronomie jusqu’en 1880 (Brussels, 1880–1889, reprinted with additions by D.W. Dewhirst, 3 vols, London, 1964

Hugo

Thomas Hugo The Bewick Collector. A descriptive catalogue of the works of T. & J. Bewick (London, 1866)

Jombert

C.-A. Jombert, Catalogue raisonée de l’oeuvre de Sébastien Leclerc (Paris, 1774)

Keynes Hooke

Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke (Oxford, 1960)

Krivatsy

Peter Krivatsy A catalogue of SEventeenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, Maryland, 1989)

Kronick

David A. Kronick, Scientific and technical periodicals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: A Guide (Metuchen, N.J. and London, 1991

KVK

Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog: http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/virtueller_katalog.html

Laudan

Rachel Laudan, From Mineralogy to Geology: the Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830 (Chicago, 1987)

LeFanu

William R. LeFanu, Notable Medical Books from the Lilly Library Indiana University (Indianapolis, Indiana, 1976)

Levis

Howard C. Levis, A descriptive Bibliography of the most important Books in the English Language relating to the ARt and History of Engraving and the Collecting of Prints (London, 1912 and 1913, reprinted 1974).

Madan

Falconer Madan, Oxford Books: a Bibliography of printed works relating to the University and City of Oxford or printed or published there (3 vols, Oxford, 1895–1931)

Massing

Massing Painting materials and techniques

Mellon

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Alchemy and the occult: a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library (4 vols, New Haven, Ct., 1968–77).

Michaud

Joseph and Louis Gabriel Michaud Biographie universelle anciene et moderne (Nouv. éd, 45 vols, Paris, 1843-1863.

Moon

Marjorie Moon, _John Harris's books for youth, 1801-1843. being a check-list of books for children and young people published for their amusement and instruction by John Harris and his son, successors to Elizabeth Newbery, including a list of games and teaching toys_ (London, 1976; Supplement 1987).

Moström

Brigitta Moström Torbern Bergman: A bibliography of his work (Stockholm, 1957)

Mottelay

Paul Fleury Mottelay, Bibliographical History of Electricity & Magnetism chronologically arranged (London, 1922)

Munk

William Munk The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising Biographical Sketches of all the eminent Physicians (Second edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols, London, 1878; vol. 4 by G.H. Brown, London, 1955)

Newton Correspondence

H.W. Tunbull, A. Rupert Hall and Laura Tilling, eds., The Correspondence of Isaac Newton (7 vols, Cambridge, 1959–1977).

NUC

The National Union Catalog, pre-1956 Imprints: a cumulative author list representing Library of Congress printed cards and titles reported by other American Libraries (754 vols including supplement, London, 1968–81, and on microfiche).

OCLC

WorldCat (On-line database of Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, Ohio).

Parkinson

Claire L. Parkinson, Breakthroughs: a chronology of great achievements in science and mathematics 1200-1930 (London, 1985)

Pearson

David Pearson, Provenance Research in Book History (London, 1994)

Philip

Chris Philip, A Bibliography of Firework Books. Works on recreative fireworks from the sixteenth to the twentieth century (Winchester, 1985)

PMM

John Carter and Percy H. Muir, Printing and the Mind of Man. A descriptive Catalogue illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization during Five Centuries (second edition, revised and enlarged, Munich, 1983)

Poggendorff

J. C. Poggendorff Bigraphische-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur geschichte der Exacten Wissenschaften (2 vols, Leipzig, 1863

Pollard and Potter

Graham Pollard and Esther Potter, Early Bookbinding Manuals. An annotated list of technical accounts of bookbinding to 1840 (Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication no. 18, 1984)

Porter

Roy Porter, The earth sciences: an annotated bibliography (New York and London, 1983)

Pritzel

Georg August Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturae bontanicae omnium gentium (Leipzig, 1872–77).

Quérard

J.M. Quérard La France littéraire, ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de France (12 vols, Paris 1827-64).

RCOG

Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed before 1851 in the Library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Second edition, London, 1968)

Rép. 16

Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIIe siècle (30 vols, Baden-Baden, 1968–80)

RLIN

RLG Union Catalog (On-line database of Research Libraries Group, Mountain View, Ca.).

Roberts

Verne L. Roberts and Ivy Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica (New York, 1991)

Roberts and Tomlinson

K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The Fabric of the Body. European Traditions of Anatomical Illustration (Oxford, 1992)

Russell

K.F. Russell, British Anatomy 1525–1800 (second edition, Winchester, 1987)

Sinkankas

John Sinkankas, An annotated bibliography (Metuchen, New Jersy and London, 1993, 2 vols)

Skempton

A.W. Skempton British civil engineering 1640–1840: a Bibliography of Contemporary Printed Reporst, Plans and Books (London, 1987)

Sommervogel

Augustin de Backer, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, (Nouvelle édition par Carlos Sommervogel, 11 vols, Brussels and Paris, 1890–1932, facsimile reprint, Martino Publishing, n.d.)

Stafleu and Cowan

Antonie Frans Stafleu and Richard S. Cowan, Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications with dates, commentaries, and types (7 vols, Utrecht, 1976–88).

Swedish Men of Science.

Sten Lindroth. Swedish Men of Science 1650-1950 (Stockholm, 1952)

Taylor

E.G.R. Taylor The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge, 1954); The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England 1714–1840 (Cambridge, 1966)

Thorndike

Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science during the first thirteen centuries of our era (8 vols New York, 1923–1958)

Thornton

John L. Thornton Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors. A study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the Medical Sciences (Second edition, revised, London, 1966)

Thornton and Tully

Andrew Hunter, ed. Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors. A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the History of Science. Fourth edition, considerably revised and rewritten (Aldershot, 2000)

Tonelli

Giorgio Tonelli, A short title list of subject dictionaries of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as aids to the history of ideas. (London, 1971)

Vagnetti

Vagnetti, L. De naturli et artificiali perspectiva (Florence, 1979)

Waddleton

Norman Waddleton, Waddleton Chronology of Books with Colour Printed Illustrations or Decorations: 15th to 16th century (York, 1979, 5th ed. 1993)

Waller

Hans Sallander Bibliotheca Walleriana. The Books illustrating the History of Medicine and Science collected by Dr Erik Waller and bequeathed to the Library of the Royal University of Uppsala (Stockholm 1955)

Wallis Mathematics

R.V. and P.J. Wallis, Bibliography of British Mathematics and its Applications Part II 1701–1760 (Newcastle, 1986)

Wallis Newton

Peter and Ruth Wallis, Newton and Newtoniana 1672—1975 a Bibliography (Folkestone, 1977)

Ward and Carozzi

Dederick C Ward and Albert V. Carozzi, Geology emerging: a catalog illustrating the History of Geology (1500-1850) from a Collection in the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 1984)

Waring

Edward John Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica (London, 1878)

Wellcome

A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London, 1962 - , vol. I Books printed before 1641, vols II—IV, 1641—1850, M—R, all published to date)

Wheeler Gift

Catalogue of the Wheeler gift of Books, Pamphlets and Periodicals in the Library of the American Insttiute of Electrical Engineers. Edited by William D. Weaver Member American Institute of Electrical Engineers, with Introduction, Descriptive and Critical Notes by Brother Potamian, Sc.D., Lond. Professor of Physics, Manhattan College (New York, 1909, 2 vols)

Willems

Alphonse Willems, Les Elzevier. Histoire et Annales Typographiques (Brussels, 1880).

Wing

Donald Wing, Short-title Catalogue of Books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books printed in other Countries 1641–1700. Second edition, revised and enlarged (New York, 1994 ‘Newly revised and enlarged’, 1982, 1988, 1998, 4 vols)