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Bodleian Library. Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Acquisitions 1916-1975, SC37300-55936. Ed. Mary Clapinson and T.D. Rogers. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 3 vols.
SML Reference Z6621 B66 B63X 1991 (LC)

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Library. Catalogue of printed books in the library of the Foreign Office. London, H.M. Stationery Office, 1926.
SML Reference Z921 +G713 1926 (LC)

Continued by: -----. -----. -----. Catalogue of the Foreign Office Library, 1926-1968. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1972.
SML Reference Z921 +G682 1972 (LC)

Harvard University. Library. General European and world history; classification schedule, classified listing by call number, chronological listing, author and title listing. Widener Library shelflist no. 32. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
SML Reference Z6209 +H36 (LC)
A listing of all the books in the Harvard Library on European history arranged by author, and also chronologically by date of publications. Most importantly, they are also listed in shelf-list order, a kind of classified arrangement giving subject access.

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. The library catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University; catalog of the Western language collections. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1969. 63 vols.
SML Reference Z881 +S69 (LC)
Reproduces the catalog cards for the Western-language books, pamphlets, and special collections of one of the major libraries of late 19th- and 20th-century economic, social, and political history of Europe and Asia... The first supplement (1972) contains a catalog of the Western language collection... The second (1977) continued the catalogs of the Western language collections. The supplements cover materials catalogued July 1969-June 1973. Unlike the main set, the supplements do not include government documents, society publications, Western-language serials and newspapers, and archives and manuscripts. (Balay, DA172)

Supplemented by: -----. The library catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University; catalog of the Western language collections. Supplement. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1972-1977.
SML Reference Z881 +S691 (LC)

-----. The library catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University; catalogs of the Western language serials and newspaper collections. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1969. 3 vols.
SML Microform Film B4974

James Ford Bell Library. An Annotated Catalog of Original Source Materials Relating to the History of European Expansion, 1400-1800. Minneapolis, MN: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1994.
SML Reference Z881 +J35 1994 (LC)
"The present catalog is a record of the Library's holdings as of December 31, 1992. This catalog will be supplemented by a listing of acquisitions in The Merchant Explorer, an annual publication of the Library."--Preface

New York Public Library. Reference Department. Subject catalog of the World War I collection. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1961.
SML Reference Z6207 E8 +N48 (LC)
During World War I and its reconstruction period the New York Public Library attempted to obtain everything relevant to the war and its aftermath published in the United States and Europe--about 35,000 items. Relevant subject cards from the catalog in the Reference Department are reproduced here... Entries for books, pamphlets, and important periodical articles. (Balay, DA196)

-----. -----. Subject catalog of the World War II collection. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1977. 3 vols.
SML Reference Z6207 W8 N48 (LC)
Especially strong for its listings of military and diplomatic history, prisoners, propaganda (with many examples of clandestine publications), post-war planning, the effect of the war on art, literature, and philosophy, and more than 3,000 personal accounts. (Balay, DA196)

Wiener Library. Persecution and Resistance Under the Nazis. London: Institute of Contemporary History, 1978.
SML Stacks Z2240 W5 1978 (LC)
Contents: Part 1. Reprint of Catalogue no. 1 (Second revised and enlarged edition. London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1960. SML Stacks X589 949Wb); part 2. New material and amendments.

Wedborn, Helena. Women in the First and Second World Wars: A Checklist of the Holdings of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1988.
SML Reference Z6207 E8 +W38 1988 (LC)
Both the print and manuscript holdings of the Hoover Institution up to 1987, arranged by L.C. subject heading in either of two sections, 1914-18, or 1939-45. Correspondence is not listed, although diaries and memoirs are. Cross-references, but no author approach. (Balay, DA192)

A note on the annotations:

Balay = Guide to reference books. Edited by Robert Balay. 11th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
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