Historic New England

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

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

An island garden, by Celia Thaxter, with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam.

ix, 126 p. col. front., illus., col. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894.

GUSN: 151072

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.U7 T6

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