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Reference Library 39,183
Rare Books and Manuscripts 19,448
Prints and Drawings 2,209
Paintings and Sculpture 1

Creator

Unknown artist 2,210
Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Sotheby's (Firm) 159
Victoria and Albert Museum 153
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
John Murray (Firm) 143
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 133
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 130
Christie & Manson 126
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 124
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 89
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 87
Blake, William, 1757–1827 85
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 84
Arts Council of Great Britain 71
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Ward, Lock & Co 67
Fine Art Society 66
Tate Gallery 66
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 62
Britton, John, 1771–1857 53
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 52
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 52
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 51
Hockney, David, born 1937 51
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 51
Clark, Thomas A 50
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 48
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 47

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 39,183
Accessible in the Study Room 21,657
Not on view 1

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 59,530
Free to Use 1,139

Image Available

unavailable 60,669

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 110

Classification

Books 52,548
Prints 2,042
Articles & Chapters 1,618
Periodicals 956
Drawings & Watercolors 693
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 603
Archives & Manuscripts 488
Maps & Atlas (printed) 454
Music (printed) 245
Videos 210
Computer Files 149
Photographs 124
Postcards 113
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 56
Visual Materials 56
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 31
Dissertations & Theses 24
Posters 17
Musical Sound Recordings 7
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 4
Paintings 4
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 3
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 1
Kits 1
Sculptures 1

Collective Title

London Cries: A Volume of Seventy-Seven Drawings 75
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 39
Views Taken at Exmouth and in Its Vicinity 31
A Book of Sundry Prints 26
Sketchbook, 10 September, 1819 12
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 9
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs 9
Eight Drawings of Hunting and Coaching 8
An Album of 17 Views of Erlestoke House, Park and Surroundings 7
Original Sketches of Animals & etc. 6
An Album of 17 Views of Erlestone House, Park and Surroundings 4
English Etchings, A Collection of Thirty-three Original Etchings by English Artists 4
A Collection of Landscapes after Gaspar Poussin 2
Gay's Fables 2
The Economy of Beauty, in a Series of Fables Addressed to the Ladies, by Dr. John Cosens 2
The Portfolio, An Artistic Periodical 2
XXVII Pontificum Maximorum Elogia et Imagines 2
An Album of 17 Views of Erlestone House, Park, and Surroundings 1
Architectural Remains removed to Farnley, by Walter Fawkes Esqr. from Different Ancient Hall Houses in his Possession 1
Environs of London 1
Fables by John Gay, Vol. I 1
Fables by John Gay, Vol. II 1
Fountains Abbey - Views 1
Porfolio of Sixteen Designs after Greek Vases 1
Portrait of Queen Victoria, from Her Majesty's Glorious Jubilee 1897, The Illustrated London News, Record Number of a Record Reign 1
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 1
Subjects copied from Barker's Rustic Figures 1

Period

20th century 27,105
21st century 14,611
19th century 13,423
18th century 2,971
17th century 493
15th century 316
16th century 181
18th century-19th century 99
19th century-20th century 42
17th century-18th century 12
unknown period 3
14th century 2
13th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 299
graphite 192
laid paper 171
etching (printing process) 138
watercolor 127
line engraving 99
black ink 69
pen 69
brown ink 47
mezzotint 31
gouache 18
hand coloring 18
gelatin silver process 17
gray wash 13
lithography 13
brown wash 12
chromolithography 12
ceramic (material) 11
gray ink 11
albumen process 9
daguerreotype (process) 9
molding (forming) 9
black chalk 8
ink 8
white gouache 8
stipple engraving 7
watercolor (paint) 7
letterpress printing 6
aquatint 5
paper 5

Height [cm]

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Width [cm]

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Work Type

wood engraving 1,790
exhibition catalog 1,308
engraving 1,237
lithograph 1,169
auction catalog 1,097
aquatint 1,032
artists' book 862
ephemera 755
history 627
chromolithograph 603
etching 532
catalog 431
woodcut 417
map 411
armorial bookplates (provenance) 355
private press books (publishing) 313
accordion fold format (binding) 308
watercolor 303
photograph 300
photomechanical print 292
drawing book 269
incunabula 260
recreation 252
fragments (object portions) 248
chromoxylograph 237
memorial card 232
intaglio print 227
drawing 226
sheet music 224
criticism, interpretation, etc 189

Genre

architectural subject 236
landscape 84
genre subject 65
portrait 56
religious and mythological subject 29
cityscape 24
historical subject 21
botanical subject 19
military art 19
animal art 18
literary theme 16
figure study 13
marine art 8
sporting art 8
cartographic material 5
still life 3
frontispiece 2

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,078
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 858
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 820
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 747
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 680
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 664
Rare books -- Catalogs. 650
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 601
Great Britain. 577
Art, British -- Catalogs. 494
Furniture -- Catalogs. 442
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 409
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 380
London Institution -- Ownership. 344
Auction catalogs. 340
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 339
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 328
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 321
Incunabula in Yale Library. 295
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 285
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 283
England. 268
Art -- Catalogs. 259
Drawing -- Technique. 257
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 249
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. 248
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 241
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 239
Grief. 235
Silver -- Catalogs. 228

Subject Period

19th century 3,581
20th century 3,581
18th century 1,444
17th century 688
21st century 339
16th century 274
15th century 57
17th-18th centuries 25
15th and 16th centuries 20
11th century 14
12th century 8
14th century 6
Geschichte 5
13th century 3
Alfred, 871-899 3
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 3
To 500 3
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Early church, ca. 30-600 2
Elizabeth II 2
Silurian 2
To 400 2
To 510 B.C 2
10e siècle 1
16th-17th centuries 1
16th-18th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 8,874
England 6,097
London 1,906
London (England) 1,235
Scotland 690
United States 626
Europe 518
France 476
Ireland 470
Italy 401
India 296
Wales 284
Australia 240
Edinburgh (Scotland) 207
Edinburgh 183
England London 164
Germany 158
Middle East 124
Oxford (England) 124
Canada 114
Switzerland 108
Netherlands 107
Spain 92
Egypt 90
Kent (England) 90
Bath (England) 85
New York (State) 85
Paris (France) 83
Cambridge (England) 82
Devon (England) 82

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 430
Blake, William, 1757–1827 372
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 202
Constable, John, 1776–1837 184
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 175
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 173
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 151
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 148
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 145
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 135
Morris, William, 1834–1896 134
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 124
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 120
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 118
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 93
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 83
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 82
Hockney, David, born 1937 79
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 79
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 73
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 72
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 69
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 68
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 66
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 65
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 64
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 62
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 60
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 59
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 57

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 123
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 83
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 61
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 53
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 42
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 40
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 23
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 17
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 14
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 12
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 11
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 9
Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2026-01-08 - 2026-05-31) 8
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 8
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 7
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 5
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25) 4
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 4
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016) 4
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 3
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 3
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 2
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 2
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 2
Fashionable Follies (The Museums at Stony Brook, 1981-11-25 - 1982-01-31) 2
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 2
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 2
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World (Yale Center for British Art, February 15, 2018-May 27, 2018) 2
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) 2

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1,512
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 189
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 112
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 52
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 48
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael Zinman 37
Yale Center for British Art 35
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 29
22653444280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 26
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 26
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 16
22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 15
22968197670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13
22709619840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse 12
22960409440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Kenny and Susan Phillips, In Memory of Richard Kressler and Leland Sweet 9
22711752450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 7
22711752960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale BA 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert 7
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6

Language

English 54,039
French 920
German 647
Latin 379
Italian 272
Dutch 99
Spanish 87
Undetermined 66
Japanese 45
Russian 29
Multiple languages 21
Welsh 19
Swedish 17
Portuguese 16
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 9
Danish 8
English, Middle (1100-1500) 8
Polish 8
Chinese 7
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 7
Hebrew 6
Efik 4
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 4
Low German 4
Norwegian 4
Estonian 3
Scots 3
Afrikaans 2
Dakota 2
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 2

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Hearld, Mark

[Strawberry plant]

[2009]
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[Metamorphic pictures of a cherub of health and other figures]

[19th century?]
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[Metamorphic pictures]

[circa 1775]
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Victoria and Albert Museum

Pierre Culot: ceramics

1974]
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hermans

Art conservation and authenticities
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Smith, Christopher Webb, 1793–1871

Oriental ornithology

1829
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D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845

Indian sports

[1828]-[1829]
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Turner, F. C. (Francis Calcraft), approximately 1782–1846

Turner's illustrations to Nimrod on the condition of hunters

[1831]
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Wootton, Stanley, 1895–1986

Stanley Wootton archive,

1933-1934
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British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings

Index to the political & personal satires in the British Museum

[19--]
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British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings

British Museum catalogue of political and personal satires

1977
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The directory of music foundations

2009-
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Christie, James, 1773–1831

A catalogue of the very choice and highly valuable cabinet of Italian,... [Read more]

[1829]
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Beautyway

[1957]
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Rougemont, Denis de, 1906–1985

The devil's share

1944
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Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321

The divine comedy

1970-1975
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McGuire, William, 1917–

Bollingen, an adventure in collecting the past

c1982
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Neumann, Erich

Art and the creative unconscious;

[1959]
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Saint-John Perse, 1887–1975

Chronique

c1961
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274

Aurora Consurgens

c1966
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Saint-John Perse, 1887–1975

Éloges and other poems

c1956
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Jaffé, Aniela

C. G. Jung, word and image

c1979
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Doran, Dr. (John), 1807–1878

'Mann' and manners at the court of Florence, 1740-1786

1876
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Kerényi, Karl, 1897–1973

Asklepios; archetypal image of the physician's existence

[1959]
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Valéry, Paul, 1871–1945

The collected works of Paul Valéry

1956-75 [v.1, 1971]
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Raphael, Max, 1889–1952

The demands of art

[1968]
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Kerényi, Karl, 1897–1973

Eleusis;

1967
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Fierz-David, Linda

The dream of Poliphilo

[1950]
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Jacobi, Jolande, 1890–1973

Complex, archetype, symbol in the psychology of C. G. Jung

[1959]
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Breasted, James Henry, Jr., 1908–1983

Egyptian servant statues

[c1948]
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Plato. Opera English. 1961

The collected dialogues of Plato, including the letters

[1961]
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Read, Herbert Edward, Sir, 1893–1968

The art of sculpture

[1956]
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Corbin, Henry

Creative imagination in the Ṣūfism of Ibn ʻArabī

[1969]
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Neumann, Erich

The archetypal world of Henry Moore

[1959]
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Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877–1947

Coomaraswamy

c1977
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Grabar, André, 1896–1990

Christian iconography;

[c1968]
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Zimmer, Heinrich Robert, 1890–1943

The art of Indian Asia,

[1955]
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African folktales & sculpture

[c1952]
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Maritain, Jacques, 1882–1973

Creative intuition in art and poetry

[1953]
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Homer

Chapman's Homer

[1956]
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Apuleius

Amor and Psyche;

[1956]
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Charles Holme

Early English Portrait Miniatures in the collection of the Duke of Buggleugh
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Pottle, Frederick A. (Frederick Albert), 1897–1987

Boswell and the girl from Botany Bay,

1937
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795

Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnoson, LL. D., now... [Read more]

1936
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Collections, content, and the Web

[2000]
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Wilhelm, Hellmut, 1905–

Change;

[1960]
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Unamuno, Miguel de, 1864–1936

The agony of Christianity ; and, Essays on faith

c1974
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Saint-John Perse, 1887–1975

Collected poems

[1971]
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Avicenna, 980–1037

Avicenna and the visionary recital

[1960]
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795

Boswelliana

1874

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