Bibliography of Books on Antiquarianism

This is a bibliography (in progress) of modern writings on antiquarianism and early modern science. Limited previews of some texts can be accessed through Google Book Search and Amazon Online Reader.

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Adorno, Rolena. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: his account, his life, and the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, c1999.

Arnold, D and S. Bending. Tracing Architecture: The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. (Limited Preview)

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Bignamini, I. Archives & Excavations: Essays on the history of archaeological excavations in Rome and southern Italy from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. London: British School at Rome, 2004. (Snippet View)

Bollaert, W. Antiquarian, Ethnological and Other Researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru and Chili'. London: Trübner & co., 1860.

Bonde, Sheila and Stephen Houston. Representing the Past: Archaeology through Image & Text. Providence: Joukowsky Institute, Brown University, (forthcoming 2008).

Brooks, C., R. Daniels, and A. Harding. Past, Present and Future Archaeology of Northern England. Durham: Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, 2002.

Brown, Iain Gordon. Abbotsford and Sir Walter Scott: The Image and the Influence. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2007.

Brown, Iain Gordon. Poet & Painter: Allan Ramsay, Father and Son, 1684-1784. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1984.

Buchli, Victor. Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. London: Routledge, 2001. (Limited Preview)

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Campbell, Alexander. The Ancient Geography of India. Trübner and Co., 1871. (Snippet View)

Campbell, Alexander. Coins of Ancient India from the Earliest Times Down to the Seventeenth Century A.D. London: B. Quaritch, 1891.

Ceram, C.W. The First American: A Story of North American Archaeology. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.

Christenson, A.L. Tracing Archaeology’s Past: The Historiography of Archaeology. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.

Coffin, D.R. Pirro Ligorio: the Renaissance artist, architect and antiquarian: with a checklist of drawings. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. (Limited Preview)

Crane, Susan A. Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early 19th Century Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. (Limited Preview)

Crane, Susan A. et al. Museums and Memory. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. (Limited Preview)

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Daniel, G.E. The Origins and Growth of Archaeology. Harmonsdsworth: Penguin, 1967.

Diaz-Andreu, Margarita. A World History of Nineteenth Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. (TOC, Excerpt)

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Eisner, R. Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to Greece. University of Michigan Press, 1991. (Limited Preview)

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Fagan, B.M. Eyewitness to Discovery: First-person accounts of more than fifty of the world’s greatest archaeological discoveries. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (TOC, Excerpt)

Funari, Pedro Paulo A., Martin Hall and Siân Jones. Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge. One World Archaeology 31. London: Routledge, 1999. (Limited Preview)

Gerrard C.M. Retrospect and prospect: 50 years of Medieval Archaeology. Society for Medieval Archaeology, 2007.

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Glichi, Sauro and Mauro Librenti. Constructing Post-Medieval Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda. Florence: All’Insegna del Giglio, 2007.

Graham, P. ''The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. (TOC, Excerpt)

Greenlee, E.T. Origins of English Antiquarianism. Case Western Reserve University, 1969.

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Hanson, C.A. The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Harmsen, T.H.B.M. Antiquarianism in the Augustan age: Thomas Hearne, 1678-1735. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Harmsen, T.H.B.M. John Gee’s Foot out of the Snarw (1624). Nijmegen: The Cicero Press, 1992.

Haskell, F. and N. Penny. Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Haycock, D. William Stukeley: Science, Archaeology and Religion in Eighteenth-Century England. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2002.

Herklotz, Ingo. Cassiano dal Pozzo und die Archaeologie des 17. Jahrhunderts (Romische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 28). Munich: Hirmer, 1999.

Hingley, Richard. Roman Officers and English Gentlemen: the Imperial Origins of Roman Archaeology. London: Routledge, 2000. (Limited Preview)

Hodder, Ian. Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past. London: Routledge, 1997. (Limited Preview)

Hodder, Ian and Scott Hutson. Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology. 3rd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Hogg, E.P.M. Fifty years an antiquarian. London: Walthamstow Historical Society, 2002.

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Jervise, Andrew. Memorials of Angus and Mearns: Being an Account, Historical, Antiquarian, and Traditionary, of the Castles and Towns Visited by Edward I., and of the Barons, Clergy, and Other, Who Swore Fealty to England in 1291-6; Also, of The Abbey of Cupar, and the Priory of Rostinoth to which is Added An appendix of Original Documents. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1861.

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Lawrence, Susan. Archaeologies of the British: Explorations of Identity in the United Kingdom and Its Colonies 1600-1945. London: Routledge, 2003. (Limited Preview)

Leone, Mark P and Parker B. Potter, Jr. The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States. Smithsonian Institution Press. Reprinted with a new Prologue, Percheron Press, 2003. (Paperback edition 1994)

Leone, Mark P and Neil A. Silberman. Invisible America: Unearthing our Hidden History. Henry Holt Co., 1995.

Levine, P.J.A. The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Limited Preview)

Liverani, P. L’Antiquarium di Villa Barberini a Castel Gandolfo. Vatican: Città del Vaticano, 1989.

Lolla, M.G. ‘Monuments’ and ‘Texts’: Antiquarianism and Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1997.

Lucas, Gavin. An Archaeology of Colonial Identity: Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006. (Limited Preview)

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Malina, J., Z. Vašíček and M. Zvelebil. Archaeology Yesterday and Today: The Development of Archaeology in the Sciences and Humanities. CUP Archive, 1990. (Limited Preview)

Maas, M. John Lydus and the Roman past: antiquarianism and politics in the age of Justinian. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. (Limited Preview)

McCalman, I. An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (Limited Preview)

Miller, P.N. Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. (Limited Preview)

Mendillo, Michael and Boston University Art Gallery. Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps from the Mendillo Collection. Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 2005.

Mendyk, S.G. ‘Speculum Britanniae’: Regional Study, Antiquarianism, and Science in Britain to 1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Momigliano, Arnaldo. Ancient History and the Antiquarian Studies in Historiography. London, 1966, pp. 1-39.

Myrone, M. and L. Peltz. Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice, 1700-1850. Aldershot, Hants and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999.

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Parry, Graham. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. (TOC, Excerpt)

Parry, Graham. The Life and Letters of John Talman. Walpole Society, Vol. LIX.1997.

Parry, Graham. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. (TOC, Excerpt)

Pearce, S. Visions of antiquity: the Society of Antiquaries of London. London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007.

Piggott, S. Ruins in a Landscape: Essays in Antiquarianism. New York: Columbia University Press. 1976.

Pinsky, V. and A. Wylie. Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Rockley, J. Antiquarians and archaeology in nineteenth century Cork. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008.

Rowley-Conway, P. From Genesis to Prehistory: The archaeological Three Age System and its contested reception in Denmark, Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. (TOC, Excerpt)

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Schnapp, A. The Discovery of the Past: the origins of archaeology. British Museum Press, 1996.

Shanks, Michael and Christopher Tilly. Re-Constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. 2nd Ed. London: Routledge, 1992. (TOC, Excerpt)

Singh, Upinder. The Discovery of Ancient India: Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.

Skeates, R. Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy. London: Duckworth, 2005. (TOC, Excerpt)

Skeates, R. Debating the Archaeological Heritage. London: Duckworth, 2000.

Skeates, R. The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1500-1999). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2000.

Sloan, De Villo. The Crimsoned Hills of Onondaga: Romantic Antiquarians and the Euro-American Invention of Native American Pre-History. New York: Cambria Press, 2008.

Smiles, Sam. "John White and British Antiquity” from European Visions and American Voices. British Museum research publications online (forcoming 2008).

Society of Antiquaries of London. 2007. Making History: Antiquaries of Britain, 1707-2007. London: Royal Academy. (Exhibition catalogue)

Solinas, Francesco. I segreti di un collezionista. Le straordinarie raccolte di Cassiano Dal Pozzo (1588 - 1657). Rome: Edizioni De Luca, 2000.

Swann, M. Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2001. (Limited Preview)

Sweet, R. Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-century Britain. London & New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004.

Sweet. R. Antiquaries and Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century England Eighteenth-Century Studies 34.2, 2001: 181-206.

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Trigger, B.G. A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. (Limited Preview)

Trigger, B.G. Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

Trumble, A. The Collector: a current record of art, bibliography, antiquarianism, etc. New York: A. Trumble, 1889-1899.

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Weston, D. Sept. Dr. William Hunter. Edinburgh: ILAB Congress, 2000. (Conference Paper)

Weiss, Roberto. The Renaissance discovery of classical antiquity. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1969.

Wylie, A. Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. (Limited Preview)

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Zimmermann, T. C. Price. Paolo Giovio: the historian and the crisis of sixteenth-century Italy. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.