Historic New England

A treatise on steam-boilers: their strength, construction, and economical working / by Robert Wilson ... Enl. and illus. from the 5th English ed. by J.J. Flather ...

4 p. l., 36a, [7]-437 p. : front. (fold. diagr.) ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Wilson, Robert. Flather, John Joseph, 1862-1926.

GUSN: 151192

Call Number: Stacks TJ285.W75

Puritans at play : leisure and recreation in colonial New England / Bruce C. Daniels.

xiv, 271 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1996, c1995.

Creators: Daniels, Bruce Colin.

GUSN: 151193

Call Number: Stacks GV54.A11 D35 1996

Cape Cod : its natural and cultural history : a guide to Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts / by Robert Finch ; produced by the Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

111 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 22 cm.

Date: 1993.

Creators: Finch, Robert, 1943- United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications.

GUSN: 151194

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 F55 1993

The old house book of bedrooms / Lawrence Grow, general editor ; Ellen Beasley, consultant.

94 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Grow, Lawrence. Beasley, Ellen.

GUSN: 151195

Call Number: Stacks NK2117.B4 G76 1980

Transforming rural life : dairying families and agricultural change, 1820-1885 / Sally McMurry.

xii, 291 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: McMurry, Sally Ann, 1954-

GUSN: 151196

Call Number: 85M Stacks SF274.U6 M38 1995

Crockett's victory garden / by James Underwood Crockett ; photography by Lee Lockwood / Black Star.

326 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Crockett, James Underwood.

GUSN: 151197

Call Number: Stacks SB453.C778

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.

157 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: [c1961]

Creators: Garbisch, Edgar William. Garbisch, Bernice Chrysler. Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck.

GUSN: 151198

Call Number: Stacks ND207.G3 (and 1 more)

Henry Hobson Richardson and the small public library in America : a study in typology / Kenneth A. Breisch.

xii, 354 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Breisch, Kenneth A.

GUSN: 151199

Call Number: 85M Ref. Z679.2.U54 B74 1997 c.1 (and 1 more)

The world of antique arts.

xviii, 301 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: 1958.

Creators: Rhoades, Orille Bourassa.

GUSN: 151200

Call Number: Stacks NK1125.R45

Benjamin Franklin in American thought and culture, 1790-1990 / Nian-Sheng Huang.

xviii, 270 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Huang, Nian-Sheng, 1951-

GUSN: 151201

Call Number: Stacks E302.6.F8

John M. Johansen : a life in the continuum of modern architecture / text by John M. Johansen ; introduction by Richard Rogers ; critical essay by Lebbeus Woods.

170 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 35 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Johansen, John MacLane, 1916-

GUSN: 151202

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.J58 A2 1995

Pictorial dictionary of British 18th century furniture design : the printed sources / compiled by Elizabeth White.

503 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: White, Elizabeth, 1950- Antique Collectors' Club.

GUSN: 151203

Call Number: Stacks NK2529.W53 1990

A history of the Woodstock Academy / by Robert J. Smith.

150 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1986.

Creators: Smith, Robert J. (Robert John), 1946- Woodstock Academy (Conn.). Alumni Association.

GUSN: 151204

Call Number: Stacks LD7501.W86 S65 1986

Die neue Wohnung und das alte Japan : Architekten planen fèur sich selbst : Edward William Godwin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Walter Gropius, Egon Eiermann, Toyo Ito / Karin Kirsch ; [èUbersetzungen aus dem Englischen, Nora von Mèuhlendahl, èUbersetzungen aus dem Japanischen, Matsumasa Enomoto].

223 p. : ill., plans ; 30 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Kirsch, Karin.

GUSN: 151205

Call Number: Stacks NA7195.A7 K57 1996

Shipwrecks around Boston / by William P. Quinn.

x, 230 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Quinn, William P.

GUSN: 151206

Call Number: Stacks G525.Q467 1996

A checklist of American coverlet weavers / compiled for the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center by John W. Heisey ; edited and expanded by Gail C. Andrews and Donald R. Walters.

149 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Heisey, John W. Andrews, Gail C. Walters, Donald R. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center.

GUSN: 151207

Call Number: Stacks TT848.H4 (and 1 more)

Henry William Stiegel: the life story of a famous American glass-maker. By George L. Heiges.

5 p. ¾., 80 p. : plates, frontis. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Heiges, George L.

GUSN: 151208

Call Number: Coll. NK5112.H4 1937 (and 1 more)

Gathered and preserved / by Suzanne L. Flynt, Susan McGowan and Amelia F. Miller.

55 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1991.

Creators: Flynt, Suzanne L. Miller, Amelia F. McGowan, Susan. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.

GUSN: 151209

Call Number: Stacks F72.F8 F57 1991 (and 1 more)

Souvenir of the 50th anniversary of the dedication of Bunker Hill monument, 1843-1893.

86 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1893]

Creators: Bunker Hill Times.

GUSN: 151210

Call Number: Stacks F74.C4 E93

Cultural landscape report for Fort Hill : Cape Cod National Seashore / by Lynn Kneedler-Schad, Katharine Lacy, and Larry Lowenthal.

xvi, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Kneedler-Schad, Lynn, 1947- Lacy, Katharine, 1961- Lowenthal, Larry. Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.)

GUSN: 151211

Call Number: Stacks F74.E2 K58 1995

The Lynn album II : a pictorial history / [by Kathryn Grover for the Lynn Historical Society]

200 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Grover, Kathryn. Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Mass.)

GUSN: 151212

Call Number: Stacks F74.L98 G76 1996

Shaping an American landscape : the art and architecture of Charles A. Platt / Keith N. Morgan ; with essays by Rebecca Warren Davidson ... [et al.].

xiii, 199 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Morgan, Keith N. Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933. Davidson, Rebecca Warren. Hood Museum of Art. Octagon (Washington, D.C.) William Benton Museum of Art.

GUSN: 151213

Call Number: 85M Stacks N6537.P535 A4 1995 (and 1 more)

The modern architect : a classic Victorian stylebook and carpenter's manual / Edward Shaw ; with a new introduction by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

xiv, 193 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1996.

Creators: Shaw, Edward, b. 1784.

GUSN: 151214

Call Number: Stacks NA710.5.V5 S52 1996

Boston lithography, 1825-1880 : the Boston Athenµum collection / Sally Pierce, Catharina Slautterback ; [photographs by Clive Russ].

ix, 191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 x 30 cm.

Date: 1991.

Creators: Pierce, Sally. Slautterback, Catharina. Boston Athenµum.

GUSN: 151215

Call Number: Stacks NE2311.B68 B68 1991

The brick church and parish house : presenting a collection of designs for churches, with articles.

80 p. : ill., plans) ; 35 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Hydraulic-press brick co., St. Louis.

GUSN: 151216

Call Number: Ovr. NA4811.H8

The treasury of early American homes / by Dorothy and Richard Pratt.

144 p. : col. ill., ports ; 36 cm.

Date: [1959]

Creators: Pratt, Dorothy. Pratt, Richard.

GUSN: 151217

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.P685

Old brick architecture of Holland and Belgium.

52 p. : ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: 19--?]

Creators: Rogers and Manson (Firm)

GUSN: 151218

Call Number: Stacks NA4120.O4 1900z

John Singleton Copley / James Thomas Flexner.

xv, 139 p., [33] p. of plates. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-

GUSN: 151219

Call Number: Stacks ND237.C7 F6

Salem witchcraft in outline/ by Caroline E. Upham.

xiii, 161 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1891.

Creators: Upham, Caroline E.

GUSN: 151220

Call Number: Stacks BF1576.U5 1891

Engines of enterprise : an economic history of New England / edited by Peter Temin.

vi, 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Temin, Peter.

GUSN: 151221

Call Number: Stacks HC107.A11 E53 2000

Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views : or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century: exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs / from original drawings by Mr. Thomas H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical, and critical illustrations [by John Britton]

vi, [168] p. : 88 plates ; 28 cm.

Date: 1829.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857. Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) illus.

GUSN: 151021

Call Number: Rare DA890.E3 B8 1829

Vanishing London: a series of drawings illustrating some of the old houses, etc., in London and Westminster. By Roland W. Paul.

24 p. illus., xl pl. 30 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Paul, Roland Wilmot.

GUSN: 151022

Call Number: Rare Browne NA970.P3

Illustrations of the public buildings of London: with historical and descriptive accounts of each ediface. By Pugin and Britton.

2 v. illus., plates (part fold.) plans (part fold.) 24 cm.

Date: 1838.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857. Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Leeds, W. H. (William Henry), 1786-1866.

GUSN: 151023

Call Number: Rare Browne NA970.B8 1838 vol.1 (and 3 more)

London and its environs in the nineteenth century, illustrated by a series of views from original drawings, by Thomas H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical and critical notices. Series the first, comprising the earlier edifices, antiquities, & c.

1 p.l., iii, 160 p. front, 79 pl. 27 cm.

Date: 1829.

Creators: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) Elmes, James, 1782-1862.

GUSN: 151024

Call Number: Rare DA683.S54

The history of Whitby, and of Whitby abbey : collected from the original records of the abbey, and other authentic memoirs, never before made public, containing, not only the history of Whitby and the country adjacent, but also the original and antiquity of many particular families and places in other parts of Yorkshire, divided into three books... / by Lionel Charlton.

xviii, 379 p., 4 pl. (1 fold.) : ill., maps., plan. 27 cm.

Date: 1779.

Creators: Charlton, Lionel, 1720-1788.

GUSN: 151025

Call Number: Rare DA690.W57 C4

Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham ... embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building, with perspective views of the same.

44 [i.e. 46], 8 p., [2] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., plans ; 22 cm.

Date: 1766.

Creators: Seeley, B. (Benton)

GUSN: 151026

Call Number: Rare Browne SB479.T45 S84 1766

Pen sketches of old houses / Wm. E. Barry.

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: [1874?]

Creators: Barry, William E.

GUSN: 151027

Call Number: Rare NA707.B37

The architecture of country houses; including designs for cottages, farm-houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating. With three hundred and twenty illustrations. By A. J. Downing.

x, 484 p. illus. (incl. plans) plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1861.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.

GUSN: 151029

Call Number: Rare NA7561.D75 1861

Cottages and cottage life : containing plans for country houses, adapted to the means and wants of the people of the United States; with directions for building and improving; for the laying out and embellishing of grounds; with some sketches of life in this country / by C.W. Elliott.

xii p., 1 ¾., 226 p. : 16 plates, ; 25 cm.

Date: 1848.

Creators: Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883.

GUSN: 151030

Call Number: Rare NA7561.E46

Homes of American authors : comprising anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches, by various writers ...

viii, 469 p. : ill., plates, ports., facsims. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1854.

GUSN: 151031

Call Number: Stacks PS141.H6 (and 1 more)

Civil architecture : or, A complete theoretical and practical system of building. Containing the fundamental principles of the art, with the five orders of architecture. Also a great variety of examples selected from Vitruvius, Stuart, Chambers, and Nicholson. With many useful and elegant ornaments, and rules for projecting them / by Edward Shaw ...

175, [1], 95 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1831.

Creators: Shaw, Edward, b. 1784. Perry Collection.

GUSN: 151032

Call Number: Rare NA2522.S45 1831

Examples of American domestic architecture, by John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb, architects, Portland, Maine.

30, [25], 32-40 p. incl. front., illus. LIX pl. 26 x 37 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Stevens, John Calvin. Cobb, A. W. (Albert Winslow)

GUSN: 151033

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7511.S8

Early New England interiors. Sketches in Salem, Marblehead, Portsmouth and Kittery / by Arthur Little ...

45 ¾ : 36 plates ; 28 x 36 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Little, Arthur.

GUSN: 151034

Call Number: Rare NA707.L7

Experimental essays on the principles of construction in arches, piers, buttresses, etc. : made with a view to their being useful to the practical builder / by William Bland.

vi, 138, 12 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1867.

Creators: Bland, William.

GUSN: 151035

Call Number: Rare TG327.B64 1839

A rudimentary treatise on the history, construction and illumination of lighthouses.

204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Stevenson, Alan, 1807-1865.

GUSN: 151036

Call Number: Rare VK1024.S74 1850

Les plus belles âeglises du monde : notices historiques et archâeoloques sur les temples les plus câelebres de la Chrâetientâe / par ... J. -J. Bourassâe ; illustrations d®apr°es Karl Girardet.

504 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 26 cm.

Date: 1857.

Creators: Bourassâe, Jean Jacques, 1813-1872.

GUSN: 151037

Call Number: Rare Browne NA4815.B6 1861

Designs for churches and chapels, of various dimensions and styles : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, with estimates: also some designs for altars, pulpits, and steeples. By W.F. Pocock ...

28 p.. 44 l. of plates ; 30 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Pocock, William Fuller, 1779-1849.

GUSN: 151038

Call Number: Rare NA4810.P7 1835

A treatise on bridge architecture : in which the superior advantages of the flying pendent lever bridge are fully proved / by Thomas Pope.

[2], vi, [8], [vii]-xxxii, [33]-288 p., 15 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1811.

Creators: Pope, Thomas

GUSN: 151039

Call Number: Rare TG145 P67 1811

Stables, outbuildings and fences : illustrated with a series of 120 original designs and plans, with descriptive matter / by George E. Harney.

vi, [90] p., 62 leaves of plates : plans ; 30 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Harney, George E.

GUSN: 151040

Call Number: Rare NA8301.H3 1870a

The Cabinet-maker's guide, or, Rules and instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering, and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal : with observations on their management and application.

108 p. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1825.

GUSN: 151041

Call Number: Rare TT305.C15 1825

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