Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648
——, Serpentum et draconum historiae, Bologna, 1640
Allen, M., The Tradescants, Their Plants, Gardens and Museum, 1570–1662, London, 1964
Allin, Michael, Zarafa – The True Story of a Giraffe’s Journey from the Plains of Africa to the Heart of Post-Napoleonic France, London, 1998
Alsop, J., The Rare Art Traditions: A History of Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena, New York, 1982
Ariès, Philippe, L’homme devant la mort, Paris, 1978
Arnold, U. and Schmidt W., Barock in Dresden. Kunst und Kunst-sammlungen unter der Regierung des Kurfürsten Friedrich August I. von Sachsen und Königs August II. von Polen genannt August der Starke (1694–1733) und des Kurfürsten Friedrich August II. von Sachsen und Königs August III. von Polen (1733–1763), Leipzig, 1986
Bacon, Francis, The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding et al., 14 vols, London, 1857–74
Balfe, H. J., Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage, Chicago, 1993
Balsinger, B. J., The Kunst- und Wunderkammern. A Catalogue Raisonné of Collecting in Germany, France and England, 1565–1750, Pittsburgh, PA, 1970
Balzac, Honoré de, Le cousin Pons, Paris (1847), 1993
Barge, J. A. J., De oudste inventaris der oudste academische anatomie in Nederland, Leiden, 1934
Barker, Nicolas, Portrait of an Obsession, New York, 1967
Barker, Stephen, ed., Excavations and Their Objects, New York, 1996
Basbanes, Nicholas A., A Gentle Madness, New York, 1995
Bauer, Wilhelm A., Angelo Soliman, der hochfürstliche Mohr, Vienna, 1992, new edition, ed. Monika Firla-Forkl, Berlin, 1993
Baur, R. and Haupt H.,Das Kunstkammerinventar Kaiser Rudolf II.,1607–11 (Verzeichnis was in der Röm. Kay. May. Kunstkammer gefunden worden ist.), Vienna, 1977
Bazin, Germain, The Museum Age, Brussels, 1967
Becker, C., Vom Raritäten-Kabinett zur Sammlung als Institution. Sammeln und Ordnen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, Hohenhausen, 1996
Bedini, S. A., ‘Citadels of Learning. The Museo Kircheriano and Other Seventeenth-Century Italian Science Collections’, in Maristella Casciato, ed., Enciclopedismo in Roma barocca, Venice, 1986, pp. 249–67
Belper, J., Barocke Sammellust. Die Bibliothek und Kunstkammer des Herzogs Ferdinand Albrecht zu Braunschweig Lüneburg, 1636–1687, Weinheim, 1988
Benjamin, Walter, ‘Ich packe meine Bibliothek aus’ [1931], in Angelus Novus, Frankfurt, 1966, pp. 169–78
Bennett, J. and Mandelbrote, S., The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple: Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Oxford, 1998
Bennett, Tony, The Birth of the Museum – History, Theory, Politics, London, 1995
Bentley, J., Restless Bones, London, 1985
Bergvelt, Ellinoor and Kistemaker, R., De wereld binnen handbereik. Nederlandse kunst- en rariteitenverzamelingen, 1578–1735, Amsterdam, 1992
Bergvelt, Ellinoor, Meijers, D. J. and Rijnders, M., Verzamelen. Van rariteit-enkabinet tot kunstmuseum, Heerlen, 1993
Berman, S. N., Duveen, New York, 1952
Berti, L., Il principe dello studiolo. Francesco I dei Medici e la fine del rinascimento florentino, Florence, 1967
Beurdeley, Michel, The Chinese Collector through the Centuries, Rugland, VT, 1966
Blair, A., The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science, Princeton, NJ, 1997
Blumenthal, Walter, Booksman’s Bedlam, New Brunswick, NJ, 1955
Bock, H., ‘Fürstliche und öffentliche Kunstsammlungen im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland’ in Per Bjurström, ed., The Genesis of the Art Museum in the 18th Century, Stockholm, 1993, pp. 112–30
Bogenig, G. A. E., Die großen Bibliophilen. Geschichte der Büchersammler und ihrere Sammlungen, 3 vols, Hildesheim, 1984
Bolton, A. T., Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the Residence of Sir John Soane, London, 1930
Bonnaffé, Edmond, Les collectionneurs de l’ancienne France, Paris, 1869
——, Les collectionneurs de l’ancienne Rome: Notes d’un amateur, Paris, 1867
Bredekamp, H., The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine, Princeton, NJ, 1995
Brieger, Lothar, Das Kunstsammeln: Eine kurze Einführung in seine Theorie und Praxis, Munich, [1918]
Brown, C. M., Our Accustomed Discourse on the Antique. Cesare Gonzaga and Gerolamo Garimberto – Two Renaissance Collectors of Greco-Roman Art, New York and London, 1993
Browne, Sir Thomas, Urne Buriall, in Selected Writings, ed. Claire Preston, Manchester, 1995
Burckhardt, Jacob, Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, Basle, 1860
Burk, C. F., ‘The Collecting Instinct’, in Pedagogical Seminary 7, 1900, pp. 179–207
Burke, Peter, Tradition and Innovation in Renaissance Italy, London, 1972
Burton, Robert,The Anatomy of Melancholy(1651),ed. Holbrook Jackson, London, 1977
Cabanne, P., Die Geschichte großer Sammler, Bern and Stuttgart, 1993
Caggill, M., Nineteenth-Century Collecting and the British Museum, ed. A. W. Franks, London, 1997
Calceolari, F. Musaeum Calceolarium, Verona, 1622
Céard, J., La curiosité à la renaissance, Paris, 1986
Cheles, L., The Studiolo of Urbino: An Iconographic Investigation, Wiesbaden, 1986
Clifford, J., ‘Sich selbst sammeln’, in G. Korff and M. Roth, eds, Das historische Museum, Frankfurt, New York, 1990, pp. 87–106
Constable, W. G., Art Collecting in the United States of America, London, 1964
Cooper, Douglas, ed., Great Family Collections, London, 1965
——, ed., Great Private Collections, New York, 1974
Cronin, Vincent, Napoleon, London, 1971
Cruz, Joan Carroll, Relics, Huntingdon, IN, 1983
DaCosta Kaufmann, Thomas, Court, Cloister and City – The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450–1800, London, 1995
Dance, S. P. A., History of Shell Collecting, Leiden, 1986
Darley, Gillian, John Soane: An Accidental Romantic, New Haven, CT, and London, 1999
Darlington, H. S., ‘The Meaning of Head Hunting’, in Psychoanalytic Review 26, 1939
Dekkers, Midas, De vergankelijkheid, Amsterdam, 1998
Demetz, Peter, Prague in Black and Gold, New York, 1997
Dibdin, Revd Thomas Frognall, The Bibliomania; Or, Book-Madness; Containing Some Account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of This Fatal Disease, London, 1809
Donath, A., Der Kunstsammler, Psychologie des Kunstsammelns, Berlin, 1923
Dühring, Monika von, et al., eds, Encyclopaedia Anatomica, Cologne, 1999
Duncker, L., ‘Mythos, Struktur und Gedächtnis. Zur Kultur des Sammelns in der Kindheit’, in L. Duncker, F. Maurer and G. E. Schäfer, eds, Kindliche Phantasie und ästhetische Erfahrung, Langenau-Ulm, 1990
Durost, W., Children’s Collecting Activity Related to Social Factors, New York, 1932
Eccles, Lord, On Collecting, London, 1968
Elshout, A. M., Het Leidse Kabinet der Anatomie uit de achttiende eeuw. De betekenis van een wetenschappelijke collectie als cultuur-historisch monument, Leiden, 1952
Elsner, John and Cardinal Roger, eds, The Cultures of Collecting, London, 1994
Eudel, Paul, Collections et collectionneurs, Paris, 1958
Evans, R. J. W., The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700, Oxford, 1979
——, Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History, 1576–1612, Oxford, 1953
Fabbrini, Fabrizio, ed., II collezionismo nel mondo romano: Dall’età degli Scipioni a Cicerone, Arezzo, 2001
Fatke, R. and Flintner, A., ‘Was Kinder sammeln. Beobachtungen und Überlegungen aus pädagogischer Sicht’, in Neue Sammlung. Zeitschrift für Erziehung und Gesellschaft. Studien- Texte- Entwürfe, 23, 1983, pp. 600–611
Findlen, Paula, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Berkeley, CA, 1994
Flintner, A., ‘Steine, Muscheln, Zinnsoldaten. Besitzen und Sammeln im Kindesalter’, in Welt des Kindes, 1984, pp. 276–81
Floerke, H., Die Formen des Kunsthandels, das Atelier und die Sammler in den Niederlanden vom 15.–18. Jahrhundert, Munich and Leipzig, 1905
Förster, Henrich, Sammler & Sammlung oder das Herz in der Schachtel, Cologne, 1998
Foucault, Michael, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, New York, 1994
Fucčikova, Elisa, ed., Prag um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II., (catalogue), Freren, 1988
——, ed., Rudolf II and Prague: The Court and the City, London, 1997 Gabhardt, A., Treasures and Rarities: Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque, Baltimore, MD, Bradford and London, 1971
Gamber, Ortwin, Curiositäten und Inventionen aus der Kunst- und Rüstkammer, Vienna, 1978
Geary, Patrick J., Furta Sacra, New York, 1990
Georges, Chantal, ed., La Jeunesse des Musées, Paris, 1994
Gere, Charlotte and Vaizey, Marina, Great Women Collectors, London, 1999
Gould, Cecil, Trophy of Conquest – The Musée Napoléon and the Creation of the Louvre, London, 1965
Gould, Stephen Jay and Wolff Purcell, Rosamund, Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors, London, 1992
Green, André, On Private Madness, Madison/Conn., 1986
Greenblatt, S., Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, Chicago, 1991
——, ‘Resonance and Wonder’, in Ivan Karp and Stephen D. Lavine, eds, Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Washington, DC, 1991
Greenfeld, Howard, The Devil and Dr Barnes, London, 1996
Grote, Andreas, ed., Macrocosmos in Microcosmos, Opladen, 1994
Groys, Boris, Logik der Sammlung. Am Ende des musealen Zeitalters, Munich and Vienna, 1997
Guiffrey, Jules, ed., Inventories de Jean, duc de Berry (1401–1416), 2 vols, Paris, 1894–6
Hamann, G., ‘Zur Wissenschaftspflege des aufgeklärten Absolutismus. Naturforschung, Sammlungswesen und Landesaufnahme’, in Zöller, Erich, ed., Österreich im Zeitalter des aufgeklärten Absolutismus, Vienna, 1983, pp. 151–77
Händler, Gerhard, Fürstliche Mäzene und Sammler in Deutschland von 1500–1620, Strassburg, 1933
Hauser, Ernst, Das pathologisch-anatomische Bundesmuseum im Narrenturm des alten Allgemeinen Krankenhauses in Wien, Vienna, 1998
Herrmann, Frank, The English as Collectors, London, 1972/1999
Hibbert, Christopher, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, London, 1974
Hobsbawm, Eric and Ranger, Terence, eds, The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge, 1997
Holst, Niels van, Creators, Collectors and Conoisseurs – The Anatomy of Artistic Taste from Antiquity to the Present Day, London, 1967
Hunter, M., Elias Ashmole and His World, Oxford, 1983
Impey, Oliver and MacGregor, Arthur, eds., The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe, Oxford, 1985
Jackson, Holbrook, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, 2 vols, London, 1930
Jacobi, Franz, Grundzüge einer Museographie der Stadt Rom zur Zeit des Kaisers Augustus, Speier, 1884
Jansen, Dirk Jacob, ‘Samuel Quiccheberg’s “Inscripitones”:Deencycopedische verzameling als hulpmiddel voor de wetenschap”, in Ellinoor Bergvelt, ed., Verzamelen, Heerlen, 1993
Jeudy, Henry Pierre, Die Welt als Museum (Paris, 1985), Berlin 1987
Johnson, Thomas, Cornucopiae, or Divers Secrets: Wherein is contained the rare secrets in man, beasts… plantes, stones, and such like… and not before committed to be printed in English, newlie drawen out of divers Latine authors …, London, 1595
Juel-Jensen, Bent, ‘Musaeum Clausum, or Biblioteca Abscondita: Some Thoughts on Curiosity Cabinets and Imaginary Books’, in Journal of the History of Collections 4.1, 1992
Kamen, Henry, Philip of Spain, New Haven, CT, and London, 1997
Kenseth, Joy, ed., Age of the Marvelous, Chicago, 1991
Kopplin, Monika, ‘“Was frembd und seltsam ist”: Exotica in Kunst- und Wunderkammern’, in Tilman Osterwold and Herman Pollig, eds, Exotische Welten-Europäische Phantasien, Stuttgart, 1987
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750, London, 1995
Kurz, O., Fakes: A Handbook for Collectors and Students, New York, 1967
Lelièvre, Pierre, Vivant Denon – Homme des lumières ‘ministre des arts’ de Napoléon, Paris, 1993
Lhotsky, Alphons, Festschrift des kunsthistorischen Museums zur Feier des Fünfzgjaehrigen Bestandes, Vienna, 1941–5
Liebenwein, W., Studiolo. Die Entstehung eines Raumtyps und seine Entwicklung bis um 1600, Berlin, 1977
Lloyd, C., The Queen’s Pictures. Royal Collectors through the Centuries, London, 1991
Lucius, Wulf D. von, Bücherlust: Vom Sammeln, Cologne, 2000
Lyons, J., Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy, Princeton, NJ, 1989
MacGregor, Arthur, Ark to Ashmolean: The Story of the Tradescants, Ashmole and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1983
——, The Late King’s Goods. Collections, Possessions and Patronage of Charles I in the Light of the Commonwealth Sale Inventories, London, 1989
——, Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, Founding Father of the British Museum, London, 1994
——, Tradescant’s Rarities. Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683. With a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections, Oxford, 1983
Major, Johann Daniel, Unvorgreiffliches Bedencken von Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern insgemein, Kiel, 1662
Mandelartz, B., Zur Psychologie des Sammelns, 1981
Masson, Georgina, Queen Christina, London, 1968
Masters, John, Casanova, London, 1969
Menzhausen, J., Dresdner Kunstkammer und Grünes Gewölbe, Leipzig, 1977
Minges, Klaus, Das Sammlungswesen in der frühen Neuzeit. Kriterien der Ordnung und Spezialisierung, Münster, 1998
Muensterberger, Werner, Collecting: An Unruly Passion, Princeton, NJ, 1994
Munby, A. N. L., The Formation of the Phillipps Library up to the Year 1840, Cambridge, 1954
——, Portrait of an Obsession: The Life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the World’s Greatest Book Collector, London, 1967
Neickelius, C. F., Museographia oder Anleitung zum rechten Begriff und nützlicher Anlegung der Museorum und Raritätenkammern, 1727
Ohlsen, M., Wilhelm v. Bode, Berlin, 1995
Olmi, Giuseppe, Ulisse Aldrovandi: Scienza e natura nel seconco Cinquecento, Trent, 1976
Pearce, Susan M., Interpreting Objects and Collections, London, 1994
——, Museums, Objects and Collectors, Leicester, 1992
Petropoulos, Jonathan, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany, London, 2000
Pomian, Krzysztof, ed., L’anticomanie, Paris, 1992
——, Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800, Cambridge, 1990
——, ‘Collezionisti d’arte e di curiosità naturali’, in Storia della cultura veneta dalla Controriforma alla fine della Repubblica. Il Settecento 2, 1986, p. 5
——, Der Ursprung des Museums: Vom Sammeln, Berlin, 1998
Quiccheberg, Samuel, Inscriptiones vel tituli. Theatri aplissimi, complectentis rerum universitatis singulas materias et imagines eximias… , Munich, 1565
Reitlinger, Gerald, The Economics of Taste, London, 1961
Rheims, Maurice, Les collectionneurs: De la Curiosité, de la beauté, du goût, de la mode et de las spéculation, Paris, 1981
Ricci, Seymour de, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts, 1530–1930, and Their Marks of Ownership, New York and Cambridge, 1930
Ridley, Ronald, Napoleon’s Proconsul in Egypt: The Life and Times of Bernardino Drovetti, London, 1998
Riedl-Dorn, Christa, Wissenschaft und Fabelwesen ein kritischer Versuch über Conrad Gessner und Ulisse Aldrovandi, Vienna, 1989
Roberts, Andrew,Collections Management for Museums, Cambridge, 1988
Roger, J. Buffon, A Life in Natural History, Ithaca, NY, 1997
Rufus, Anneli, Magnificent Corpses, New York, 1999
Rumphius, G. E., D’Amboinsche Rariteitkammer, Amsterdam, 1705
Ruysch, Frederik, Thesaurus Animalium Primus, Amsterdam, 1710
Savini Branca, Simona, Il collezionismo veneziano nel 1600, Florence, 1965
Schaffner, I. and Winzen, M., Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung. Sammelns, Speichern, Archivieren in der Kunst, Munich and New York, 1997
Schama, Simon, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, London, 1987
Scheicher, Elisabeth, et al., eds, Die Kunstkammer: Sammlungen Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, 1977
——, Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Habsburger, Vienna, Munich and Zürich, 1979
Scheurleer, Lunsingh Th. H. and Meyjes, G. H. M., eds, Leiden University in the Seventeenth Century: An Exchange of Learning, Leiden, 1975
Schlosser, Julius von, Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Sammelwesens. Ein Handbuch für Sammler und Leibhaber, 2 vols., Braunschweig, 1978
Scholler, Hubert: Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien – Die Geschichte der Wiener naturhistorischen Sammlungen, Vienna, 1958
Schwarzenfeld, Gertrude von, Rudolf II, der Saturnische Kaiser, Munich, 1960
Schubert, Karsten, The Curator’s Egg: The Evolution of the Museum Concept from the French Revolution to the Present Day, London, 2000
Seligman, Germaine, Merchants of Art, New York, 1961
Sharpe, Kevin, The Personal Rule of Charles I, New Haven, CT, and London, 1992
Skeates, Robin, The Collecting of Origins: Collectors and Collections of Italian Prehistory and the Cultural Transformation of Value (1550–1999), Oxford, 2000
Spence, Jonathan D., The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, New York, 1984
Strohl, Alfred, Der Narrenturm – oder die dunkle Seite der Wissenschaft, Vienna, 2000
Strouse, Jean, Morgan – American Financier, New York, 1999
Swanberg, W. A., Citizen Hearst, New York, 1961
Swann, Marjorie, Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England, Philadelphia, PA, c. 2001
Taylor, F. H., The Taste of Angels: A History of Collecting from Ramses to Napoleon, Boston, 1948
Topsell, Edward, The Elizabethan Zoo: A Book of Beasts Both Fabulous and Authentic, ed. M. St Clare Byrne, London, 1926
Tradescant, J., Musaeum Tradescantianum: Or A Collection of Rarities, Preserved at South-Lambeth near London, London, 1656
Vaisey, David George, The Foundations of Scholarship: Libraries and Collecting, 1650–1750: Papers Presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 9 March 1985, Los Angeles, 1992
Wainwright, C., The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home, 1750–1850, New Haven, CT, and London, 1989
Welscher, Lawrence, Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, New York, 1998
Wenneker, Lu Beery, An Examination of L’idea del theatro of Giulio Camillo… , (dissertation) Pittsburgh, PA, 1970
Wolbert, Klaus, ‘Die Kunst- und Wunderkammer: Ein Sammlungstyp zwischen Mythos und Wissenschaft’, in Sammeln: Eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte und zu den Formen der Sammeltägkeit, Darmstadt, 1981
Worm, Ole, Musaeum Wormianum, Leiden, 1655
Zorzi, Marino, Collezioni di antichità a Venezia: Nei secoli della Repubblica dai libri e documenti della Biblioteca Marciana: mostra 27 maggio-31 luglio 1988; catalogo a cura di; con un saggio di Irene Favaretto; schede di P. Bravetti, Rome, 1988