On View: Bowl with Kufic Calligraphy
The Arabic inscription on this bowl reads, “Planning before work protects from regrets; patience is the key to comfort.”
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.
On View: Bowl with Kufic Calligraphy
The Arabic inscription on this bowl reads, “Planning before work protects from regrets; patience is the key to comfort.”
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Brooklyn Furniture Co. : illustrated catalogue : warerooms, 559 to 571 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.... (100%)
[Postcard views of Brooklyn]. (100%)
Kiowa Indian art : watercolor paintings in color by the Indians of Oklahoma (100%)
Department of Ethnology [3.1.021]: corresp. (01/1918-10/1918). (100%)
Panthéon égyptien, collection des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Égypte, d'apres les mon... (100%)
[Views of Brooklyn : a collection of photographs] (100%)
Insectes : vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron, donnant quatre-vingt insectes et seize... (100%)
Travels in Egypt 
[Brooklyn views : a series of postcards] (100%)
[Clippings on historic Brooklyn houses] (100%)
Constitution of the Apprentices' Library Association of the village of Brooklyn. (100%)
Illustrations of artistic furniture (100%)
Sonia Delaunay : ses peintures, ses objets, ses tissus simultanés, ses modes. / Préf. d'André Lho... (100%)
[Postcard views of Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery]. (100%)
Alexander M. White House, 2 Pierrepont Place [picture] (100%)
Les laques du Coromandel; 50 planches publiées (100%)
Fulton Ferry and Wall Street Ferry, Brooklyn, N.Y. [picture] (100%)
Monuments égyptiens, bas-reliefs, peintures, inscriptions, etc. d'après les dessins exécutés sur... (100%)
The royal mummies. (100%)
America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World; (100%)
Egyptian Museum. The objects in this museum, numbering upwards of 1,000, were almost all taken from ... (100%)
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. [picture] (100%)
Photographs of the Weil-Worgelt apartment. (88%)
Fashion and Costume Sketch Collection. (78%)
Collection, 1865-1905. (75%)
A journal (manuscript) / by J. Schenck ; March 19th, 1812. (74%)
Autograph letter signed from Hamad Hassab : Cairo, Egypt, to Charles Scribner's, 1927 Oct. 31. (67%)
Codex Nuttall : facsimiles of an ancient Mexican codex belonging to Lord Zouche of Harrynworth, Engl... (67%)
Romani collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum, cujus magnum antiquariae rei, statuarum imagin... (67%)
The Marks improved adjustable folding chair : combining a parlor, library, smoking, reclining or inv... (55%)
Album dédié à Tamar [sic] Karsavina (52%)
Aegyptische 'altertuemer', die ich fuer neuzeitlich halte. (50%)
L'Égypte au XIXe siècle. histoire militaire et politique, anecdotique et pittoresque de Méhémet-... (50%)
Pyramidographia; or a description of the pyramids in Egypt. (50%)
Voyage en Perse (50%)
A Nile voyage of recovery. (40%)
Atlas nouveau : contenant toutes les parties du monde ou sont exactement remarquès les empires, mon... (31%)
[Photographs of the Mende of Sierra Leone] [picture] (27%)
Postcards of the Stele of the Seven-Year Famine. (25%)
The Ernest George Metcalfe collection of Oriental rugs ... / exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Decem... (19%)
The Paracas textile : [exhibition], The Brooklyn Museum / [drawings and text by Lois Martin]. Also i... (17%)
Ancient armor (17%)
America. pt. 2. German] Der ander Theyl, der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae, von dreyen Sc... (13%)
Egypt ; heliogravures after original views. (10%)
6 empty bookcases (10%)
Collection of wood-block prints of traditional objects to be displayed at seasonal festivals. (9%)
Congo natives : an ethnographic album (8%)
Paul Thévenaz : a record of his life and art, together with an essay on style by the artist, and in... (8%)
A very famous artist in a Williamsburg studios tour (8%)
Curator's choice : Hiroshige, one hundred famous views of Edo : [exhibition] September 23 to Novembe... (8%)
[Stereographs] [graphic]. (8%)
Shawn, the dancer (7%)
Our Brooklyn (7%)
A. Pearson's illustrated catalogue, 61 and 63 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn L.I. (6%)
Catalogue of a most interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities, principally found at Thebes and ... (6%)
Annual of American design 1931 (5%)
Primitive Negro art : chiefly from the Belgian Congo (5%)
Labyrinth : a montage book (5%)
Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit : 155 à 169. (4%)
The life of Our Lord Jesus Christ : illustrated by over four hundred paintings and drawings taken fr... (4%)
Account of my trips to Holmdel, N.J. & Flatlands, L.I. (4%)
L'obélisque de Louqsor à Cherbourg (4%)
Green-wood illustrated : in highly finished line engraving, from drawings taken on the spot (3%)
Some of these daze (3%)
Catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities : the property of Henry Abbott (3%)
The corona palimpsest (3%)
History of the Brooklyn and Long Island fair, February 22, 1864 (2%)
What we saw in Egypt. (2%)
Organic design in home furnishings (2%)
The portraits of the 'Forty-seven Ronins' : with the biographical sketch of each 'Ronin' (2%)
Scrapbook of trade cards, 1877-1894. (1%)
Scrapbook of trade cards, 1861-1895. (1%)
Leaves of grass (1%)
Games of the North American Indians (1%)
Aegypten im Exlibris (1%)
Hori Apollinis selecta hieroglyphica. Imagines vero cum priuilegio. (1%)
The house in good taste (1%)
The life and times of A.B. Durand (1%)
Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien : nach den Zeichnungen der von seiner Majestät den Koenige v... (1%)
Emmens House : 110 Gravesend Neck Road, Brooklyn, New York. (1%)
Kunst und Kultur aus der Südsee : Sammlung Clausmeyer Melanesien (1%)
Nineveh and its remains : with an account of a visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and t... (1%)
Royal Persian paintings : the Qajar epoch, 1785-1925 (1%)
Six years, the dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972; a cross-reference book of info... (1%)
Vanderveer Homestead : Flatlands Avenue at 107 Avenue, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by L.B. Po... (1%)
Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phénicie de la Palestine, et de la Base Égypte (1%)
A century of fashion. (1%)
American architecture (1%)
Ancient Egypt; her monuments, hieroglyphics, history, and archaeology, and other subjects connected ... (1%)
Art and the future : a history/prophecy of the collaboration between science, technology, and art (1%)
Arts of Vanuatu (1%)
Asar-i 'ajam (1%)
Assemblage of spirits : idea and image in New Ireland (1%)
Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken muhammedanischer Kunst in München, 1910, (1%)
Egypt, architecture, sculpture, painting in three thousand years (1%)
Florine Stettheimer, a life in art (1%)
Frank Hurley in Papua : photographs of the 1920-1923 expeditions (1%)
Headhunters of Papua (1%)
Islands and ancestors : indigenous styles of Southeast Asia (1%)
Lady Duff Gordon's letters from Egypt. (1%)
Les peintures des couvents du désert d'Esna (1%)
Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Südsee-Abteilung (1%)
Modern art (1%)
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavati... (1%)
Rome (1%)
Schmuck der Südsee, Ornament und Symbol : Objekte aus dem Linden-Museum, Stuttgart (1%)
Sketches in Egypt (1%)
Taste and the antique : the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900 (1%)
The American drawing book; a manual for the amateur and basis of study for the professional artist; ... (1%)
The American in Egypt; with rambles through Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land, during the years 1839 ... (1%)
The art of decorative design : with an appendix, giving the hours of the day at which flowers open (1%)
The discovery of Egypt (1%)
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments (1%)
The land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai: illustrated by pen and pencil. (1%)
The Nile Boat : or, glimpses of the land of Egypt. (1%)
The Opulent era : fashions of Worth, Doucet and Pingat (1%)
The pictorial history of Brooklyn : issued by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on its seventy-fifth annivers... (1%)
The standard street guide to Brooklyn ; containing detailed information of streets, house numbers an... (1%)
Through Bible lands : notes of travel in Egypt, the desert, and Palestine (1%)
Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798 ... (1%)
Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers, and a travel-book for the library. (1%)
Zuñi folk tales (1%)
[Furniture catalog. (1%)
Hana shishu / [chosha Kawarazaki Kodo]. Classical patterns for dyeing. (1%)
[Advertising cards] (1%)
Fashion and Costume Sketch Collection, 1912-1950. (1%)
Harper's weekly (1%)
A collection of photographs and plates from books. (1%)
[Collection of trade cards]. (1%)
[A collection of pictures of Brooklyn]. (1%)
[Dress diary.] (1%)
Scrapbook of trade cards, 1882-1895. (1%)
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1%)
Brooklyn's garden : views of picturesque Flatbush. (1%)
Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Ég... (1%)
Bierstadt collection, 1863-1957. (1%)
Greenwood Cemetery (1%)
I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, disegnati dalla spedizione scientifico-letteraria toscana in ... (1%)
African ceremonies (1%)
Brooklyn Bridge : 100 years (1%)
Photographs, c.1888. (1%)
Vogue. (1%)
[Drawings of Egyptian antiquities] (1%)
New Lots Dutch Reformed Church : New Lots Avenue & Schenck Avenue, Brooklyn, New York / card prepare... (1%)
Harper's bazaar. (1%)
Lake House : Gravesend Neck Road & East 5 Street, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by Pope, Bretz.... (1%)
Revue archéologique. (1%)
Ancient Egypt or Mizraïm (1%)
Art and archaeology. (1%)
Canalizing the cataract (1%)
Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church : E. 40 Street & Kings Highway, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared b... (1%)
Little journeys to the art museums : the Brooklyn Institute / by Don J. O'Byrne. (1%)
Voorhees-Sheppard House : 1240 Gravesend Neck Road opp. Homecrest Avenue, Brooklyn, New York / card ... (1%)
W.M. Williamson House : 2095 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by Pope, Bretz ; Foste... (1%)
A history of the city of Brooklyn : including the old town and village of Brooklyn, the town of Bush... (1%)
Artistic houses : being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated ... (1%)
Arts & architecture (1%)
Bouquets et frondaisons : 60 motifs en couleur (1%)
Lott Farmhouse : E. 36 Street, between Filmore & Avenue S, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by Les... (1%)
Natural history : the journal of the American museum. (1%)
The book of the fair; an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and in... (1%)
The marriage of Heaven and Hell. (1%)
Wonders of the past : a series of 50. [graphic] (1%)
A description of the East, and some other countries. (1%)
A transcript to unrequited euphoria : a subtext to The enigma of Marie Taglioni, In tribute to Madam... (1%)
Andy Warhol : a memorial mass : Wednesday, April 1, 1987, St. Patrick's Cathedral. (1%)
Apollo (1%)
Bennett Homestead : Avenue P at E. 22nd Street, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by Pope, Bretz. (1%)
Brooklyn Museum bulletin. (1%)
Camera work; a photographic quarterly. (1%)
Catalogue of the modern masterpieces gathered by the late connoisseur William H. Stewart. (1%)
Church Homestead : 10024 Ft. Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by Foster, O'Neill... (1%)
Codex Mendoza, the Mexican manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza and preserved in the Bodlei... (1%)
Ditmas House : on grounds of Brooklyn City College, Armersfort Place, Brooklyn, New York / card prep... (1%)
Erasmus Hall : Church Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by Pope, Bretz.... (1%)
Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church : Church Avenue at Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York / card prepare... (1%)
Godey's magazine. (1%)
Jefferson Mansion : 8200 18 Avenue, Brooklyn, New York / card prepared by Pope, Bretz. (1%)
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians (1%)
Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (1%)
Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie (1%)
The annual exhibition ... (1%)
The life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospe... (1%)
The Museum news (1%)
A day with the donkey-boys (1%)
Aegyptus Hodierna, ex itinerario Celeberrimi Viri Pauli Lucae Franci desumpta, ac novissime repraese... (1%)
Art and artists of our time v.3 (1%)
Artist file (1%)
Artist file. (1%)
Cahiers d'art. (1%)
Cenni biografici intorno al viaggiatore italiano, Giovanni Belzoni. (1%)
Courses. (1%)
Crazy quilt (1%)
Creative art. (1%)
Design for today. (1%)
Egyptian art (1%)
From dreams to ashes (1%)
Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land. (1%)
La bijouterie française au XIXe siécle (1800-1900) (1%)
Laurentii Pignorii Patavini Mensa Isiaca... (1%)
Le Moniteur de la mode. Selections v.8 (1%)
Leslie's illustrated weekly newspaper. (1%)
Maurice Nahman, Antiquaire. Visitor book and miscellaneous papers. 1909-2006 (inclusive). (1%)
Mr. Vanderbilt's house and collection : described by Edward Strahan [pseud.] ... (1%)
Niagara Falls, N.Y. (1%)
Patriot alphabet (1%)
Petrie tomb cards. Petrie note books. (1%)
Poem (1%)
Punch (1%)
Repository of arts, literature, fashions, manufactures, etc. (1%)
SimWar (1%)
The American art journal. (1%)
The annual report of the Brooklyn Museum. (1%)
The Arts. (1%)
The Bishop collection : investigations and studies in jade. (1%)
The Delineator. (1%)
The Lefferts Homestead : Brooklyn, New York. (1%)
The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians. (1%)
The new metropolis : memorable events of three centuries, 1600-1900 : from the island of Mana-hat-ta... (1%)
The ruins of Mexico. (1%)
The Studio. (1%)
The tomb of Tut-ankh-amen (1%)
Travel diaries (1%)
Travels in Egypt and Nubia. (1%)
Travels in South America : from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean (1%)
Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, in company with several divisions of the French Army, during the c... (1%)
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 (1%)
Twentysix gasoline stations. (1%)
Voyage à Méroé, au fleuve Blanc, au-delà de Fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, à Syoua... (1%)
Voyage pittoresque; ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. (1%)
Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. (1%)
[Collection of furniture catalogs] (1%)
[Scrapbook from library of Lepsius] (1%)
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