Historic New England

The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations, manufactures, and other useful purposes / By D.R. Hay ...

vii, [1], 72 p., 5 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798-1866.

GUSN: 151042

Call Number: Rare ND1280.H5 1836

Practical masonry, bricklaying and plastering, both plain and ornamenmtal: containing a new and complete system of lines for stone-cutting; for the use of workmen; with an ample detail of the theory and practice of constructing arches, domes, groins, niches, stairs columns, &c. Including also, practical treatises on slating, plumbing, painting, and glazing; and a full description of the various materials employed in all these arts.

vii, 232 p. 45 plates. 30 cm.

Date: 1830.

GUSN: 151043

Call Number: Rare TH5311.P7

Essay on the construction of school-houses : to which was awarded the prize offered by the American institute of instruction, August, 1831 / by William A. Alcott. With an appendix.

iv, [5]. 66 p. : ill. (plans) ; 20 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Alcott, William Andrus, 1798-1859.

GUSN: 151044

Call Number: Rare LB3221.A5

The theory and practice of surveying; containing all the instructions requisite for the skilful practice of this art, by Robert Gibson. Illustrated by copper-plates. The whole corrected, newly arranged, and greatly enlarged, with useful selections, and a new set of accurate mathematical tables, by D. P. Adams.

324, 184 p. XIII fold. pl. 23 cm.

Date: 1814.

Creators: Gibson, Robert. Adams, D. P.

GUSN: 151045

Call Number: Rare TA545.G4 1814

American gardens / edited by Guy Lowell.

[26], [14] p. : ill., CXII plates ; 32 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927.

GUSN: 151046

Call Number: Rare SB465.L9

[Pamphlet miscellany : Eighteenth century]

1 v. (various pagings) ; 19 cm.

Date: 1800?]

Creators: March, R. A treatise on silk, wool, worsted, cotton, and thread. Haigh, James. A hint to the dyers, and cloth makers and well worth the notice of the merchant. Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government and the justice and policy of war with America. Dundonald, Archibald Cochrane, Earl of, 1749?-1831. Account of the qualities and uses of coal tar and coal varnish. Cox, Richard, Sir, 1702-1766. The case of Edward Lord Bishop of Elphin. Caldwell, James, Sir, d. 1784. An address to the House of Commons of Ireland. Long, John, clothier. The golden fleece.

GUSN: 151047

Call Number: Rare DA947.Z9 I7 1800

A history of gardening in England, By the Hon. Alicia Amherst.

xiv, 405 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Cecil, Evelyn, Mrs., d. 1941.

GUSN: 151048

Call Number: Rare Browne SB451.R6 1896

Dell'arte dei giardini inglesi / di Ercole Silva ; a cura di Gianni Venturi.

[4], 373 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1801 (Anno IX).

Creators: Silva, Ercole, conte di Biandrate, 1756-1840.

GUSN: 151049

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.G7 S55 1801

Florula bostoniensis. A collection of plants of Boston and its vicinity, with their generic and specific characters, principal synonyms, descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks. By Jacob Bigelow ...

5 p., 1 l., 422, [1] p. 25 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.

GUSN: 151050

Call Number: Rare QK166.B5 1824

The young florist : or, Conversations on the culture of flowers, and on natural history, with numerous engravings, from original designs / by Joseph Breck ...

168 p. : ill., plates, 13 cm.

Date: 1833.

Creators: Breck, Joseph, 1794-1873.

GUSN: 151051

Call Number: Rare SB405.B835

Confidences of an amateur gardener.

299 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Dew-Smith, A. M.

GUSN: 151052

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.D47

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc. with remarks on rural architecture... By A. J. Downing.

2 p. ¾., viii, [9]-451 p. front., illus. 24 1/2 cm.

Date: 1841

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

GUSN: 151053

Call Number: Rare SB471.D7 1841

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out gardens and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc., with remarks on rural architecture.

xiv, [9]-497 p. front., illus., plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1844.

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

GUSN: 151054

Call Number: Rare SB471.D

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences ... With remarks on rural architecture. By the late A. J. Downing, esq.

xvi, [17]-592 p. front. (port.) illus., plates, plans. 24 cm.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882.

GUSN: 151055

Call Number: Rare Browne SB471.D756

De l'art des jardins du XVe au XXe siáecle, par Marcel Fouquier.

x, 254 p., 1 ¾. incl. front. illus., plates, ports. 39 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Fouquier, Marcel, 1866-1961.

GUSN: 151056

Call Number: Rare Browne SB451.F7

Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds. With designs, in various styles of rural embellishment: comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves ... To which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants, adapted to villa grounds ...

xi, 70 p. 20 double pl. 31 cm.

Date: 1813.

Creators: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.

GUSN: 151057

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.L8

The theory and practice of gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, commonly called pleasure-gardens, as parterres, groves, bowling-greens &c. ... Together with remarks and general rules in all that concerns the art of gardening. Done from the French original, printed at Paris, anno 1709. By John James.

7 p. l., 218 p., 1 l., [2] p. illus., fold. plates. 26 x 21 cm.

Date: 1712.

Creators: Dâezallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765. James, John, d. 1746, tr. Le Blond, Alexandre Jean Baptiste, 1679-1719.

GUSN: 151058

Call Number: Rare SB461.L44

Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both, by Gertrude Jekyll; with 53 illustrations from photographs by the author.

xv, 301 p. incl. front. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.

GUSN: 151059

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.J44

Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur, by Gertrude Jekyll ... with 71 illustrations from photographs by the author.

xvi, 286 p. incl. front. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.

GUSN: 151060

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.J5 1899

The gardens of Italy / by Charles Latham ; with descriptions by E. March Phillipps.

2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 41 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Latham, Charles Phillipps, Evelyn March, d. 1915.

GUSN: 151061

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. SB466.I8 P6 1905 vol.2

A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies, and other kinds of horticultural structures. With practical directions for their management, in regard to light, heat, and air / by Robert B. Leuchars.

vi, 366 p. : ill., tables ; 21 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Leuchars, Robert B.

GUSN: 151062

Call Number: Rare SB416.L5

The American gardener's calendar; adapted to the climates and seasons of the United States. Containing a complete account of all the work necessary to be done in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, orchard, vineyard, nursery, pleasure-ground, flower-garden, green-house, hot-house, and forcing frames, for every month in the year; with ample practical directions for performing the same. Also, general as well as minute instructions, for laying out, or erecting, each and every of the above departments ... To which are annexed, extensive catalogues of the different kinds of plants ... By Bernard M'Mahon, nursery, seedsman, and florist.

v, [1], 648, [18] p. fold. tab. 22.1 cm.

Date: 1806.

Creators: MacMahon, Bernard, 1775?-1816.

GUSN: 151063

Call Number: Rare SB93.M16 1806

Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions.

4 p. ¾., 257 p. 22 cm.

Date: 1777.

Creators: Whately, Thomas, d. 1772.

GUSN: 151064

Call Number: Rare Browne SB471.W55 1777

Italian gardens ...

153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933.

GUSN: 151065

Call Number: Rare Browne NA9500.P69 (and 1 more)

The Scots gardener for the climate of Scotland : in three parts, treating of the following particulars, I. of contrivance and design, II. of gardens and orchards, &c., III. of levelling, measuring, and dividing land, IV. of cultivating and preparing ground, V. of forest and fruit trees, VI. of gathering and preserving fruits : together with The gardener's kalendar, The florist's vade-mecum, The practical bee-master, Observations on the weather, and the Earl of Haddington's Treatise on forest-trees / written originally by John Reid, gardener to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh ; and now carefully corrected, with alterations and additions, by an eminent hand.

[3]-viii, 208, 48, viii, 40 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., plans (etchings) ; 17 cm. (12mo)

Date: 1766.

Creators: Reid, John, Gardener. Haddington Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 1680-1735. Short treatise on forest-trees. Claridge, John. Shepherd of Banbury's rules. Claridge, John. The country kalendar, or the shepherd of Banbury's observations.

GUSN: 151066

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.S3 R35 1766

The parks, promenades and gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities and of public and private gardens / by W. Robinson.

xxxii, 644 p., 44 leaves of plates : ill., maps ; cm.

Date: 1869.

Creators: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.

GUSN: 151067

Call Number: Rare Browne SB485.P24 R63 1869

Garden-craft old and new / with a memorial notice by the Rev. E.F. Russell.

xxvi p., 1 ¾., 215 p. : front., plates ; cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Sedding, John Dando, 1838-1891. Russell, E. F.

GUSN: 151068

Call Number: Rare Browne SB455.S4 1892

Seven gardens and a palace / by "E.V.B." [i.e. E.V. Boyle] ; with illustrations by F.L.B. Griggs and Arthur Gordon.

xii, 297 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Boyle, Eleanor Vere Gordon, 1825-1916.

GUSN: 151069

Call Number: Rare Browne PR6003.O7 S4 1900

Gardens Ancient and Modern; an epitome of the literature of the garden-art, with an historical epilogue by Albert Forbes Sieveking.

xvi, 423 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Sieveking, Albert Forbes, 1857- ed.

GUSN: 151070

Call Number: Rare Browne SB455.S48

The evolution of horticulture in New England / by Daniel Denison Slade.

3 p. l., 180 p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Slade, Daniel Denison, 1823-1896.

GUSN: 151071

Call Number: Rare Browne SB83.S6

The spell of Belgium, by Isabel Anderson ...

ix, xv-xvi, 442 p. col. front., plates (part col.) ports., fold. map. 21 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Anderson, Isabel Perkins, Mrs., 1876-

GUSN: 150971

Call Number: Rare Browne DH433.A6

Eighteenth century vignettes / by Austin Dobson.

261 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921. Dodd, Mead & Company. Cambridge University Press.

GUSN: 150972

Call Number: Rare Browne PR441.D5

The heroes, or, Greek fairy tales for my children / by the Rev. C. Kingsley ; with illustrations by the author.

320 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1856.

Creators: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.

GUSN: 150973

Call Number: Rare Browne PR4842.H6

Rameses to Rockefeller; the story of architecture.

xvi, 360 p. illus., plates, diagrs. 24 cm.

Date: [c1934]

Creators: Whitaker, Charles Harris, 1872-1938.

GUSN: 150974

Call Number: Rare Browne NA200.W5

An encyclopµdia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. By Joseph Gwilt ... illustrated with about seventeen hundred engravings on wood.

xiv, viii, 1443 p. incl. front., illus., diagrs. 23 cm.

Date: 1888.

Creators: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863. Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894.

GUSN: 150975

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.G94 1888

Dictionnaire portatif des beaux-arts, ou, Abregâe de ce qui concerne l'architecture, la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure, la poâesie & la musique; avec la dâefinition de ces arts, l'explication des termes & des choses qui leur appartiennent ... Par M. L**, avocat.

2 p. l., viii, 707, [3] p. 17 cm.

Date: 1752.

Creators: [Lacombe, Jacques] 1724-1811.

GUSN: 150976

Call Number: Rare N33.L3

A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental ... / which, with the best ancient authors are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, No. 56 High Holborn, London ...

16 p. ; cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)

GUSN: 150977

Call Number: Rare Z5945.T3

Dictionnaire d'architecture, civile, militaire et navale, antique, ancienne et moderne : et de tous les arts et mâetiers qui en dâependent; dont tous les termes sont exprimâes, en franðcois, latin, italien, espagnol, anglois et allemand; enrichi de cent une planches de figures en taille-douce ... auquel on a joint une notice des architectes, ingâenieurs, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, & autres artistes les plus câeláebres, dont on rapporte les principaux ouvrages / par m. C.F. Roland le Virloys ...

3 v. : plates (part fold.. plans, diagrs. ' 29 cm.

Date: 1770.

Creators: Roland le Virloys, Charles Franðcois, 1716-1772.

GUSN: 150978

Call Number: Rare Browne NA31.R6 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Discourses on architecture, by Eugáene Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc. Translated with an introductory essay, by Henry Van Brunt; illustrated with plates and woodcuts.

2 v. : ill ; 26 cm.

Date: 1875.

Creators: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugáene-Emmanuel, 1814-1879. Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903, tr.

GUSN: 150979

Call Number: Rare NA2520.V7 1875 vol.1 (and 1 more)

An historical essay on architecture. By the late Thomas Hope. Illustrated from drawings made by him in Italy and Germany ...

2 v. 97 (i.e. 99) pl. (incl. plans) 26 cm.

Date: 1840.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831.

GUSN: 150980

Call Number: Rare NA200.H7 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The architecture of the Renaissance in Italy : a general view for the use of students and others.

xvii, 155 p. : ill., plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Anderson, William J. (William James), 1864-1900.

GUSN: 150981

Call Number: Rare Browne NA520.A5 1896

Zehn Tafeln Sèaulen-Ordnungen nebst Construktion der architektonischen Glieder / gezeichnet und mit erklèarendem Texte begleitet von L. Bergmann.

23 p. : [11] plates ; cm.

Date: [18--?]

Creators: Bergmann, Leo.

GUSN: 150982

Call Number: Rare Browne NA1068.B47

Cours d'architecture : qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, avec des commentaires, les figures & descriptions de ses plus beaux bãatimens, & de ceux de Michel-Ange... Avec une ample explication par ordre alphabetique de tous les termes...

2 v. : ill., plates (part fold.) ; 21 cm.

Date: 1691.

Creators: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653-1701. Vignola, 1507-1573. Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.

GUSN: 150983

Call Number: Stacks NA2515.A9 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Histoire physique, civile et morale des environs de Paris, : depuis les premiers temps historiques jusqu'a nos jours; contenant l'histoire et la description du pays et de tous les lieux remarquables compris dans un rayon de vingt-cinq áa trente lieues autour de la capitale; ... / Par J.A. Dulaure, ...

7 v. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Date: 1825.-1828.

Creators: Dulaure, J.-A. (Jacques-Antoine), 1755-1835. Moreau, printer. Guillaume, publisher.

GUSN: 150984

Call Number: Rare DC768.D85 vol.1 (and 6 more)

A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders ... The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita the latter / written in French by Roland Frâeart, sieur de Chambray; made English for the benefit of builders. To which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain terms, particularly affected by architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of statues. By John Evelyn.

115 p. : ill. ; cm.

Date: 1733.

Creators: Frâeart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676. Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. The elements of architecture. Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. An account of architects and architecture ... with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues. Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De statua.

GUSN: 150985

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2812.F8 1733

Chateaux & manoirs de France ...

v. : ill., maps, plans, plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1934-

GUSN: 150986

Call Number: Rare Browne NA7735.C48 vol.2

Memorable Paris houses : with illustrative critical and anecdotal notices / by Wilmot Harrison ... with over sixty original illustrations from drawings made expressly for this work by Paris artists.

ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Harrison, Wilmot.

GUSN: 150987

Call Number: Rare Browne DC771.H37 1893

Nouvelle description des chateaux et parcs de Versailles et de Marly : contenant une explication historique de toutes les peintures ... statues ... et ornamens qui s'y vayent ... / par M. Piganiol de la Force.

2 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1738.

Creators: Piganiol de La Force, Jean-Aimar, 1673-1753.

GUSN: 150988

Call Number: Rare N6851.V5 P54 1738 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The grand tour in the eighteenth century, by William Edward Mead, with illustrations from contemporary prints.

xiii, [1] p., 1 ¾., 478, [2] p. front., plates (part double) 25 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Mead, William Edward, 1860-1949.

GUSN: 150989

Call Number: Rare D917.M4

Naples; past and present / by Arthur H. Norway.

xii, 361 p. plates ; 20 cm.

Date: 1901.

Creators: Norway, Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1859-1938.

GUSN: 150990

Call Number: Rare Browne DG844.N8 1901

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