Historic New England

101 masterpieces of American primitive painting, from the collection of Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Foreword by James J. Rorimer. Pref. by John Walker. Introd. by Albert Ten Eyck Gardner.

159 p. col. illus. 31 cm.

Date: [1962]

Creators: Garbisch, Edgar William. Garbisch, Bernice Chrysler.

GUSN: 145969

Call Number: Little D207.G3 1962

Monograph of the work of Charles A. Platt, with an introd. by Royal Cortissoz.

ix l., 183 plates (incl. plans) 42 cm.

Date: [c1913]

Creators: Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933. Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948.

GUSN: 145970

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA737.P5 A3

French eighteenth-century furniture. Translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Photos. by E. Boudot-Lamotte.

128 p. illus. (part col.) ports. 22 cm.

Date: [1961]

Creators: Souchal, Geneviáeve.

GUSN: 145971

Call Number: Coll. NK2548.S653

Wallpaper, its history, design and use, by Phyllis Ackerman, PH. D.; with frontispiece in color and numerous illustrations from photographs.

xix, 268 p. col. front., plates. 22 cm.

Date: [1938]

Creators: Ackerman, Phyllis, 1893-

GUSN: 145972

Call Number: Stacks NK3395.A3 1938

Furniture history : the journal of the Furniture History Society. (Annual)

v. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Creators: Furniture History Society (London, England)

GUSN: 145973

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.F8 2001 (and 2 more)

Manual for museums / Ralph H. Lewis.

xiii, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Lewis, Ralph H. United States. National Park Service.

GUSN: 145974

Call Number: Coll. AM5.L48 1976

A pictorial guide to American spinning wheels / by David A. Pennington and Michael B. Taylor ; cover design and photographs by James P. Munsie.

100 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Pennington, David A. Taylor, Michael B.

GUSN: 145975

Call Number: Coll. TS1484.P46 1975

Collector's choice of porcelain and faèience.

264 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm.

Date: [1968, c1967]

Creators: Berges, Ruth.

GUSN: 145976

Call Number: Coll. NK4230.B4 1967

Annals of a fortress. By E. Viollet-Le-Duc. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall ...

xv, 390 p. front. (map) illus., plates, plans (part col.) diagrs. 22 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugáene-Emmanuel, 1814-1879. Bucknall, Benjamin, d. 1895, tr.

GUSN: 145977

Call Number: Stacks UG401.V6 1876

On a New England campus [by] Frances Lester Warner.

vi, [1], 279, [1] p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm.

Date: 1937

Creators: Warner, Frances Lester, 1888-

GUSN: 145978

Call Number: Stacks LD7096.W35

Food on the frontier : Minnesota cooking from 1850 to 1900, with selected recipes / by Marjorie Kreidberg.

vii, 313 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Kreidberg, Marjorie.

GUSN: 145979

Call Number: Coll. TX715.K897

English domestic brass, 1680-1810, and the history of its origins / Rupert Gentle & Rachael Feild ; foreword by Graham Woods.

204 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Gentle, Rupert. Feild, Rachael, joint author.

GUSN: 145980

Call Number: Coll. NK7843.G45 1975

Architectural metal handbook [by] Earl P. Baker [and] Harold S. Langland.

[5] Á., 3-319 p. illus., diagrs. 29 cm.

Date: 1947.

Creators: Baker, Earl P., b. 1882. Langland, Harold S. (Harold Severin), 1898- National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers.

GUSN: 145981

Call Number: Stacks TH1651.N38 1947

Wood : colors and kinds.

36 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1956.

Creators: Kukachka, B. Francis (Bohumil Francis), 1915- Russell, Roger B. (Roger Bridgford), 1901- Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)

GUSN: 145982

Call Number: HisPres. TA419.U65 1956

Diagnosing paint problems and correcting them / by Neil Garlock.

104 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: [c1969]

Creators: Garlock, Neil. American Paint Journal Company.

GUSN: 145983

Call Number: HisPres.

The Thirteen Colonies cookbook : a collection of favourite receipts from thirteen exemplary eighteenth-century cooks with proper menus for simple fare and elegant entertainments and selected notes of historic interest, being a guide to open-hearth and bee-hive oven cookery, adapted for twentieth-century use / written and illustrated by Mary Donovan ... [et al.].

xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Donovan, Mary, 1937-

GUSN: 145984

Call Number: Coll. TX715.T39

Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, 1606-1646; ed. by William T. Davis. With a map and three facsimiles.

xv p., 2 l., 3-437 p. fold. map, 3 facsim. (incl. front.) 23 cm.

Date: 1908

Creators: Bradford, William, 1590-1657. Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907, ed.

GUSN: 145985

New life for old dwellings : appraisal and rehabilitation / by Gerald E. Sherwood.

99 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Sherwood, Gerald E.

GUSN: 145986

Call Number: HisPres. S21.A37 no. 481 c.1 (and 1 more)

The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. Including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches [etc.] ... To which is prefixed, a short explanation of the five orders of architecture; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified. The whole comprehended in two hundred copper-plates ... By Thomas Chippendale ...

1 p. l., reprint ([26] p., CXCIX (i.e. 201) pl. on 101 l.), [1], 99 p. illus. 46 cm.

Date: 1938.

Creators: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779. Storey, Walter Rendell, b. 1881.

GUSN: 145987

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2542.C5 A3 1938

A history of English wallpaper, 1509-1914 / by Alan Victor Sugden and John Ludlam Edmondson; with 70 plates in colour and 190 illustrations in half-tone.

ix-xiii, 281 p. front., illus., ports., plates (part col. and mounted) facsims. 34 cm.

Date: [1926]

Creators: Sugden, Alan Victor. Edmondson, John Ludlam, joint author.

GUSN: 145988

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK3443.S8

Thomas Day, cabinetmaker : an exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1975.

75 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1975.

Creators: Day, Thomas, ca. 1801-ca. 1861. North Carolina Museum of History.

GUSN: 145989

Call Number: Roth NK2439.D38 N67

Homes of our forefathers in Massachusetts. From original drawings, by Edwin Whitefield.

2 p. l., 39 l. 39 mounted col. pl. 25 cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.

GUSN: 145990

The homes of our forefathers. Being a selection of the oldest and most interesting historical houses, and noted places in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. From original drawings taken on the spot, by Edwin Whitefield.

3 p. 1., 36 col. pl. 25 x 20 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.

GUSN: 145991

Call Number: Rare F5.W58 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Barclays of Boston. By Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis.

2 p.l., 419 p. 21 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Otis, Harrison Gray, Mrs., 1796-1873.

GUSN: 145992

Call Number: Rare PZ3.O885 B

Problems in building construction : a scientific method approach / J. Trill, J.T. Bowyer.

2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Trill, John. Bowyer, Jack, joint author. Problems in building construction.

GUSN: 145993

Call Number: HisPres. TH145.T7

A dictionary of architecture / Nikolaus Pevsner, John Fleming, and Hugh Honour.

556 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976, c1966.

Creators: Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902- Fleming, John, 1919- Honour, Hugh.

GUSN: 145994

Call Number: HisPres. NA31.P48 1976

Old Quaker meeting-houses / John Russell Hayes.

238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945.

GUSN: 147408

Call Number: Stacks N7905.H39 1911

Summer homes and camps; containing suggestions, hints, and practical ideas, sketches, plans, etc., for the building of summer houses, by Frank T. Lent ... with illus. by the author.

97 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Lent, Frank T. (Frank Townsend), b. 1855.

GUSN: 147409

Call Number: Stacks NA7561.L6

Wood structural design data.

v. illus. 28 cm.

Date: 1941-

Creators: National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

GUSN: 147410

Call Number: Stacks TA666.N31 v.1

What makes the house beautiful; a collection of building details with measured drawings. Edited by Henrietta C. Peabody.

69, [1] p. illus. (incl. plans) 32 cm.

Date: [c1920]

Creators: Peabody, Henrietta C., comp.

GUSN: 147411

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7125.P4 1920

Villas & palaces of Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580. English translations from Palladio's "I quattro libri dell'architettura" by la contessa Maria Teresa Ceschi a Santa Croce. Color photographs by Franca Parisi Baslini and Anna Pressi.

lxxxi, 373 p. illus. 31 cm.

Date: 1968.

Creators: Roop, Guy.

GUSN: 147412

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P2 R63

The rules of work of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1786, with the original copper plate illustrations. Annotated, with an introd., by Charles E. Peterson.

xxiii, xv, 47 p. 35 plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Peterson, Charles E. (Charles Emil), 1906- Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia.

GUSN: 147413

Call Number: Stacks TH5608.C25 1971 (and 1 more)

Without benefit of architect, by Frazier Forman Peters.

xv p., l¾., 211 p. incl. front., diagr. 20 cm.

Date: [c1937]

Creators: Peters, Frazier Forman.

GUSN: 147414

Call Number: Stacks TH148.P4

Radford's artistic homes, 250 designs.

261 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Radford Architectural Co.

GUSN: 147415

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.R252 1908

Problems in carpentry, a course in practical carpentry for manual training classes, by Louis M. Roehl.

111 p. incl. front. illus., plates. 19 x 22 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Roehl, Louis Michael, 1881-

GUSN: 147416

Call Number: Stacks TH5606.R7

Shaker furniture; the craftsmanship of an American communal sect, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews. Photos. by William F. Winter.

xi, 133 p. 48 plates. 28 cm.

Date: 1950 [c1937]

Creators: Andrews, Edward Deming, 1894-1964. Andrews, Faith. joint author.

GUSN: 147417

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.A7 1950

Antique furniture in Suffield, Connecticut, 1670-1835.

ix, 128 p. 61 plates (incl. facsims.) 28 cm.

Date: 1956.

Creators: Bissell, Charles S.

GUSN: 147418

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.S8 B5

Centuries and styles of the American chair, 1640-1970, by Robert Bishop. Foreword by Charles F. Hummel.

516 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Bishop, Robert Charles.

GUSN: 147419

Call Number: Coll. NK2715.B55 (and 2 more)

Boston furniture of the eighteenth century : a conference held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 11 and 12 May 1972.

xvi, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 147420

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 v.48 c.1 (and 4 more)

The house beautiful : essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks / by Clarence Cook.

336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1881, c1877.

Creators: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900.

GUSN: 147421

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK2115.C8 1881

Sloan's Victorian buildings : illustrations of and floor plans for 56 residences & other structures / Samuel Sloan ; with an introduction by Harold N. Cooledge, Jr.

2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884. Cooledge, Harold N.

GUSN: 147422

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7207.S6 1980

Early American furniture, by Charles Over Cornelius ...

xx, 278 p. front., illus., LXIII pl. 22 cm.

Date: [c1926]

Creators: Cornelius, Charles Over, 1890-1937.

GUSN: 147423

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.C6

Southern yellow pine; a manual of standard wood construction.

186, xii p. incl. tables. diagrs. (1 fold.) 18 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Southern Pine Association.

GUSN: 147424

Call Number: Stacks TA419.S7

Shaker furniture, the craftsmanship of an American communal sect, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews; photographs by William F. Winter.

2 p. ¾., [vii]-xi, [1], 133, [1] p. 48 pl. (incl. front.) on 25 ¾. 29 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Andrews, Edward Deming, 1894-1964. Andrews, Faith, joint author.

GUSN: 147425

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.A7

The book of furniture and decoration: period and modern.

358 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1941]

Creators: Aronson, Joseph, 1898-

GUSN: 147426

Call Number: Stacks NK2230.A7 1941a

English furniture illustrated / revised and edited by H. Clifford Smith.

404 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: 1958.

Creators: Brackett, Oliver.

GUSN: 147427

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.B7

In pursuit of beauty : Americans and the Aesthetic movement / Doreen Bolger Burke ... [et al.].

511 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1986.

Creators: Bolger, Doreen, 1949- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 147428

Call Number: Ref. N6510.5.E25 I5 1986 (and 1 more)

Portfolio of homes designed by Robert L. Stevenson, architect.

203 p. : ill., plans ; 28 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Stevenson, Robert L. (Robert Louis), b. 1883.

GUSN: 147429

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.S74 1930

American furniture: seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century styles / by Helen Comstock.

336 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1962.

Creators: Comstock, Helen.

GUSN: 147430

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.C58 c.1 (and 1 more)

The American heritage history of American antiques from the Revolution to the Civil War, by the editors of American heritage. Author and editor in charge, Marshall B. Davidson.

416 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., ports. 29 cm.

Date: [1968]

Creators: Davidson, Marshall B.

GUSN: 147431

Call Number: Ref. NK806.D37 c.1 (and 2 more)

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