Historic New England

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

L'architecture de la renaissance / par Lâeon Palustre.

352 p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Palustre, Lâeon, 1838-1894.

GUSN: 150991

Call Number: Rare Browne NA510.P3

Essai sur l'architecture thãeatrale, ou, De l'ordonnance la plus avantageuse áa une salle de spectacles, relativement aux principes de l'optique & de l'acoustique : Avec un examen des principaux thâeãatres de l'Europe, & une analyse des âecrits les plus importans sur cette matiere / Par M. Patte ... .

[4], 212 p., 3 folded leaves of plates. : plans ; 21 cm.

Date: 1782.

Creators: Patte, Pierre, 1723-1814.

GUSN: 150992

Call Number: Rare NA6820.P3

Râesidences de souverains : paralláele entre plusieurs râesidences de souverains de France, d'Allemagne, de Suáede, de Russia, d'Espagne, et d'Italie / Charles Percier et Pierre Franðcois Lâeonard Fontaine ; mit einem Vorwort von Hans Foramitti.

xi, [1], vii,354 p., [20] leaves of plates (5 fold.) : plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 1973.

Creators: Percier, Charles, 1764-1838. Fontaine, Pierre Franðcois Lâeonard, 1762-1853, joint author.

GUSN: 150993

Itinâeraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne, ou description gâenâerale des monumens anciens et modernes, et des ouvrages les plus remarquables en peinture, sculpture [etc.] / par le chevalier M. Vasi ... Rectifiâe par A. Nibby.

2 v. : plates, fold. maps ; 18 cm.

Date: 1804.

Creators: Romain Vasi, M[ariano] Nibby, A. (Antonio), 1792-1839.

GUSN: 150994

Call Number: Rare Browne DG804.V33 vol.1 (and 1 more)

M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem. Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Gvilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Clavdii Salmasii passim insertis. Prµmittuntur Elementa architectvrµ collecta ab ... Henrico Wottono ... Accedunt Lexicon Vitrvvianvm Bernardini Baldi Vrbinatis ... et ejusdem Scamilli Impares Vitrvviani. De pictvra libri tres absolutissimi Leonis Baptistµ de Albertis. De scvlptvra, excerpta maxime animadvertenda ex dialogo Pomponii Gavrici Neapolit. Lvdovici Demontiosii Commentarivs de scvlptra et pictvra. Cur variis indicibvs copiosissimis. Omnia in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Ioanne de Laet ...

4 p. l., 30, [2], 272, [27], 164, 69, [3] p. illus., diagrs. 31 cm.

Date: 1649]

Creators: Vitruvius Pollio. Philandrier, Guillaume, 1505-1565. Saumalse, Claude de, 1588-1653? Barbaro, Daniello, 1513-1570. Wotton, Sir Henry, 1568-1639. Baldi, Bernardino, 1553-1617. Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. Melbom, Marcus, d. 1711. Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555. Montjosieu, Louis de, 16th cent. Goldmann, Nikolaus, 1611-1665. Gaurico, Pomponio, 1481 or 82-1528? Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649.

GUSN: 150995

Call Number: Rare NA2517.V7 1649

Egypt; three essays on the history, religion and art of ancient Egypt.

4 p.l., 86 p. 32 pl., 1 map. 27 cm.

Date: 1892 [1891]

Creators: Brimmer, Martin, 1829-1896. Chapman, Minna Timmins, "Mrs. John Jay Chapman."

GUSN: 150996

Call Number: Rare Browne DT61.B85

Ancient Rome in the light of recent discoveries / by Rodolfo Lanciani ... With one hundred illustrations.

xxix, 329 p. : front., ill., map, plans ; 24 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929.

GUSN: 150997

Call Number: Rare Browne DG63.L24

Pagan and Christian Rome, by Rodolfo Lanciani ...

ix, 361, [7], [363]-374 p. front., illus., plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929.

GUSN: 150998

Call Number: Rare Browne DG809.L24

Rudiments of ancient architecture, containing an historic account of the five orders, with their proportions, and examples of each from antiques; also extracts from Vitruvius, Pliny, &c. relative to the buildings of the ancients. With a dictionary of terms. Illustrated with eleven plates.

xvi 117 p. 11 plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1794.

GUSN: 150999

Call Number: Rare NA260.R8 1794

The seats of the nobility and gentry, in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views, engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists. With descriptions of each view.

[172] p. LXXXIV pl. 21 x 28 cm.

Date: 1779.

Creators: Watts, William, 1752-1851.

GUSN: 151000

Call Number: Rare Browne DA660.W33

Essays of the London Architectural Society.

xii, 139 p., 4 ¾. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1808.

Creators: Taylor, J. London Architectural Society.

GUSN: 151001

Call Number: Rare NA961.L66 1808

A history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800, by Reginald Blomfield ... with drawings by the author and other illustrations ...

2 v. illus., plates, plans. 29 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942.

GUSN: 151002

Call Number: Rare Browne NA540.B6 vol.1 (and 1 more)

An analysis of Gothick architecture: illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice. By Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon.

2 v. illus., plates. 33 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877. Brandon, Joshua Arthur, 1822-1847.

GUSN: 151003

Call Number: Rare Browne NA480.B8 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Parish churches; being perspective views of English ecclesiastical structures: accompanied by plans drawn to a uniform scale, and letter-press descriptions / by Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon.

2 v. in 1 : plates, plans ; 28 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877. Brandon, Joshua Arthur, 1822-1847.

GUSN: 151004

Call Number: Rare Browne NA5463.B8 1851 vol.1-2

Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England: embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture; also eighty-six plates of plans, sections, elevations, and views, with historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice and subject; an alphabetical list of architects of the Middle Ages and chronological lists of ancient churches; sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc. A dictionary of architectural terms, and copious indexes, by John Britton.

xviii, 223, lxiv p. 86 plates. 30 cm.

Date: 1835.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857.

GUSN: 151005

Call Number: Rare NA360.B75 vol.5

Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England : embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture : also eighty-six plates of plans, sections, elevations, and views, with historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice and subject; an alphabetical list of architects of the Middle Ages and chronological lists of ancient churches; sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc. : a dictionary of architectural terms, and copious indexes / by John Britton.

xvi, 260 p., [86] leaves of plates, lxiv p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1826.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857.

GUSN: 151006

Call Number: Rare NA5461.B7c vol.5

A history of the Gothic revival; an attempt to show how the taste for mediµval architecture, which lingered in England during the two last centuries, has since been encouraged and developed, by Charles L. Eastlake.

xvi, 427 p. front., illus., 35 pl. 24 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1836-1906.

GUSN: 151007

Call Number: Rare NA610.E2

Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II. to Henry VIII. With numerous illustrations of existing remains, from original drawings. By the editor of "The glossary of architecture".

2 v. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1859.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 151008

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T92 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A new display of the beauties of England : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ...

2 v. : plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1776.

GUSN: 151009

Call Number: Rare DA620.N53 1776 vol.1 (and 1 more)

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