Historic New England

Elementi d'architettura civile : ridotti in compendio / dal Conte Nicolino de'Conti di Calepio.

95 p. : viiii engr. plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1784.

Creators: Conti di Calepio, Nicolino de, conte.

GUSN: 151010

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.C3 1784

An attempt to determine the exact character of Elizabethan architecture : illustrated by parallels of Dorton house, Hatfield, Longleate, and Wollaton, in England; and the Palazzo della Cancellaria, at Rome. By James Hakewill ...

20, [2] p., 1 l. : ill., plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1835.

Creators: Hakewill, James, 1778-1843

GUSN: 151011

Call Number: Rare NA625.H3

Jones' views of the seats, mansions, castles, etc. of nobleman and gentlemen in England.

v. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1829]

Creators: Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847.

GUSN: 151012

Call Number: Rare DA660.N36 1829

Inigo Jones and Wren : or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England / by W. J. Loftie.

xvi, 284 p. : ill., plates ; 26 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911.

GUSN: 151013

Call Number: Rare Browne NA997.J7 L8

Development & character of Gothic architecture, by Charles Herbert Moore ...

xix, 333 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1890.

Creators: Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930.

GUSN: 151014

Call Number: Rare Browne NA440.M8

Examples of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. By A. Pugin. The literary part by E.J. Wilson.

3v. illus., plates (1 col., part fold.) plans (part double) 31 cm.

Date: 1838-39.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852. Wilson, Edward James, 1787-1854.

GUSN: 151015

Call Number: Rare Browne NA445.P8 1838 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Specimens of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large ... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. / By A. Pugin....The literary part by E. J. Willson.

2 v. : 112 plates. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1825.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854.

GUSN: 151016

Call Number: Rare NA445.P8 1825 vol.1

Examples of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large ... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. By A. Pugin and A. W. Pugin, architects, the literary part by E. J. Willson.

3 v. fronts., illus., 214 pl. (1 col., 5 double, incl. plans) 31 x 26 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852. Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854. Walker, T. L. (Thomas Larkin)

GUSN: 151017

Call Number: Rare NA445.P8 1850 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I. to Richard II., with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings, by the editor of "The glossary of architecture."

v, [10], 352 p. front., illus., plates, plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 151018

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T91

Some account of domestic architecture in England : from the conquest to the end of the thirteenth century / by T. Hudson Turner.

xxxii, 287 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Turner, Thomas Hudson, 1815-1852.

GUSN: 151019

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T91 1851 vol.1

Cottage and villa architecture : two hundred designs / by Thomas U. Walter and J. Jay Smith.

4 v. : plates, plans ; 33 x 27 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887. Smith, John Jay, 1798-1881.

GUSN: 151020

Call Number: Rare NA7600.W35 1846 vol.1 (and 3 more)

Charles Eliot Norton : two addresses / by Edward Waldo Emerson and William Fenwick Harris.

3 p. l., [3]-53 p. : ill., port ; 22 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930. Harris, William Fenwick, 1868-

GUSN: 150871

Call Number: Stacks PS2478.E5

Wallace Nutting's biography / illustrated by six photographs.

vii, 295 p. : plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: [c1936]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941

GUSN: 150872

Call Number: Stacks CT275.N787 A3

Rebecca Nurse : saint but witch victim / by Charles Sutherland Tapley.

xiii, 105 p. : front. (port.) plates ; 20 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Tapley, Charles Sutherland, 1899-

GUSN: 150873

Call Number: Stacks BF1576.T23

Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane ...

1 p. l. : xxxviii plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1797.

Creators: Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.

GUSN: 150874

Call Number: Rare NA2707.S63 D47 1797

A collection of designs in architecture : containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... likewise some screens and pavilions ... / by Abraham Swan, architect ...

2 v. : 120 plates ; 42 cm.

Date: 1757.

Creators: Swan, Abraham.

GUSN: 150875

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7120.S93 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Original designs in architecture / by William Thomas ... consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio; which contain plans, elevations, sections, ceilings and chimney pieces, for villas and town houses; designs for temples, grottos, sepulchres, bridges, &c. in the most approved taste. To which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs.

12 p. : XXVII plates ; 54 cm.

Date: 1783.

Creators: Thomas, William, d. 1800 Mèuller, Tobias, fl. 1765-1790. Malpas, E., ill. Roberts, James, 1724 or 5-1799.

GUSN: 150876

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2620.T86 1783

The town and country builder's assistant ... : explaining short and easy rules ... / for drawing and working, the five orders of columns entire: or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's and arcades. Together with a variety of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pedements ... The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 60 folio copper-plates. By a lover of architect.

12+ p. : front., LX plates ; 32 cm.

Date: [1786]

Creators: Norman, John, 1748?-1817.

GUSN: 150877

Call Number: Rare NA2517.N84

A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations / from original designs by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

122 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1756.

Creators: Ware, Isaac, d. 1766. Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.

GUSN: 150878

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2517.W26

The sanitary condition of city and country dwelling houses / by George E. Waring, jr. ...

145 p. : ill. ; 16 cm..

Date: 1877.

Creators: Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.

GUSN: 150879

Call Number: Rare TD905.W28

Dictionnaire de l'ameublement et de la dâecoration depuis le XIIIe siáecle jusqu'áa nos jours / par Henry Havard.

4 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ; 33 cm.

Date: [1894?]

Creators: Havard, Henry, 1838-1921.

GUSN: 150880

Call Number: Rare Browne NK30.H4 1890z vol.1 (and 3 more)

Art in the house : historical, critical, and aesthetical studies on the decoration and furnishing of the dwelling / by Jakob von Falke ...

[2], [iii]-xxx, 356 p. : ill., LX pl. (part col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Falke, Jacob von, 1825-1897. Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886, tr.

GUSN: 150881

Call Number: Rare NK2110.F32

Pugin's Gothic furniture.

25 plates ; 30 cm.

Date: [182-?]

Creators: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.

GUSN: 150882

Call Number: Rare NK2542.P8 1820

Dekorative vorbilderj.

60 leaves of plates ; 30 cm.

Date: 1908.

GUSN: 150883

Call Number: Rare NK1160.D34 1908 vol.19 (and 2 more)

Modern decorative designs : coloured designs and sketches / by contemporary artists ; selected from "Dekorative Vorbilder."

1 portfolio (113 plates) : chiefly col. ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [191-?]

GUSN: 150884

Call Number: Rare NK1450.M63 (and 4 more)

The decoration of houses / by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr.

4p.¾., vii-xxii [1]-204p., 2¾. : ill. ; 22.4 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Codman, Ogden.

GUSN: 150885

Call Number: Rare NK2110.W5 1897

Characteristics of old furniture : styles in England 1600-1800 / by H. P. Benn and W. C. Baldock.

79 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 19--?]

Creators: Benn, H. P. (H. Pringuer) Baldock, W. C.

GUSN: 150886

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.B4

The decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries, by Francis Lenygon.

xii, 215 p. illus. 35 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Lenygon, Francis, 1877-1943.

GUSN: 150887

Call Number: Rare NK2043.L6 1909

Specimens of ancient furniture drawn from existing authorities by Henry Shaw ... with descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick ...

2 p. l., 57 p. lxxiv pl. (partly col.) 29 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir, 1783-1848. Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873.

GUSN: 150888

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.M4

Costume of the ancients.

2 v. 321 plates 25 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831.

GUSN: 150889

Call Number: Rare GT545.H6 1841 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements; also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various ... substances employed in these arts. With an appendix ... / by an experienced dyer. Assisted by several scientific gentlemen ...

xxi, 704 p. : X plates, diagrs. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Parnell, Edward A. (Edward Andrew)

GUSN: 150890

Call Number: Rare TP893.P25

My crochet sampler / by Miss Lambert.

160 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1847.

Creators: Lambert, Miss (F.)

GUSN: 150891

Call Number: Rare TT820.L36 1847

The practical book of oriental rugs.

359 p. : ill., plates (part col.) fold. map, fold. chart ; 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Lewis, G. Griffin (George Griffin), b. 1865.

GUSN: 150892

Call Number: Rare NK2808.L65 1911

Treatise on clock and watch making : theoretical and practical / by Thomas Reid.

viii, 476 p., 20 ¾. of plates : ill., tables ; 25 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Reid, Thomas.

GUSN: 150893

Call Number: Rare TS545.R35 1832

"What shall we do with our walls?" [By] Clarence Cook.

1 p. ¾., 35 p. col. front., col. plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Cook, Clarence Chatham, 1818-1900. Warren, Fuller & Lange, New York.

GUSN: 150894

Call Number: Rare NK3395.C6 1881

Le pitture antiche del sepolcro de Nasonii nella Via Flaminia / disegnate ed intagliate alla similitudine degli antichi originali da Pietro Santi Bartoli ; descritte & illustrate da Gio. Pietro Bellori.

16, 35-50, 65-76 p., XXXV leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (etchings) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Date: [1---?]

Creators: Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635-1700. Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1615?-1696.

GUSN: 150895

Call Number: Rare Browne ND2575.B38

Art in northern Italy, by Corrado Ricci.

vii, 372 p., 1 ¾. col. front., illus., col. plates. 19 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934.

GUSN: 150896

Call Number: Rare Browne N6911.R45

The art of writing reduced to a plain and easy system : on a plan entirely new, in seven books / y John Jenkins, writing master. Book 1. Containing a plain easy and familiar introduction, which may be considered as a grammar to the art.

xx, 68, [4] p. : front. (port.) ill., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1813]

Creators: Jenkins, John, 1755?-1823.

GUSN: 150897

Call Number: Rare Z43.J53

The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing, and the theory and practice of perspective : in a series of letters, containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure : with a new method of practical perspective : detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style for the use of teachers or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings ...

vi, 159 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 30 cm.

Date: 1840.

Creators: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150898

Call Number: Rare NC730.W48 1840

Figures, faces and folds, a practical reference book on woman's form and dress, and its application in past and present art for artists, students and designers, by Adolphe Armand Braun ... with sections on drapery and anatomy by D. Hartley.

4 p. l., 152 p. incl. front., illus., plates. 29 x 23 cm.

Date: [1928]

Creators: Braun, Adolphe Armand, 1869- Hartley, D.

GUSN: 150899

Call Number: Rare NC765.B74

The graphic arts : a treatise on the varieties of drawing, painting, and engraving : in comparison with each other and with nature / by Philip Gilbert Hamerton.

xvi, 384 p., [54] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1882.

Creators: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894.

GUSN: 150900

Call Number: Rare NC710.H2663

American text book for letters : with a diagram of the capi[tal script alp]habet, with copious remarks on the various letters now in use, with the most correct method for producing them with the pen, brush, chisel or graver/ by Nathl. Dearborn.

24 leaves, 27-54 p. :bill. ; 13 x 20 cm.

Date: 1842.

Creators: Dearborn, Nathaniel, 1786-1852. Kilburn, Samuel S.

GUSN: 150901

Call Number: Rare Z43.D284

Color value, by C.R. Clifford.

95 p. incl. illus., plates (1 col.) diagrs. 24 cm.

Date: [c1907]

Creators: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935.

GUSN: 150902

Call Number: Rare NK2113.C6

Principles of decorative design / by Christopher Dresser.

vi, 167 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: [18--?]

Creators: Dresser, Christopher.

GUSN: 150903

Call Number: Rare NK1510.D77

The grammar of ornament, by Owen Jones. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. One hundred and twelve plates.

157 p. illus, plates. (part col.) 35 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Jones, Owen, 1809-1874.

GUSN: 150904

Call Number: Rare NK1510.J7 1868

Meyer's Handbook of ornament ... by Franz Sales Meyer, with an introduction by Edward C. Bridgman.

33 p. : ill., plates ; 23 cm.

Date: [1928?]

Creators: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-

GUSN: 150905

Call Number: Rare NK1510.M6 1928

Wallace Nutting pictures : being studies in America and other lands of aspects in the life of the fathers and the country life of to-day.

97 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1912.

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 150906

Call Number: Rare TR199.N8 1912

Bernini, and other studies in the history of art, by Richard Norton ...

xii, 217 p. LXIX pl. (incl. front., port.) 28 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Norton, Richard, 1872-1918. Giorgione, 1477-1511.

GUSN: 150907

Call Number: Rare Browne N7445.N85

The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-nine engravings, by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport, with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice, with a comment on their moral tendency, by the Rev. John Trusler.

2 v. : plates ; 45 cm.

Date: 1821.

Creators: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Trusler, John, 1735-1820.

GUSN: 150908

Call Number: Rare ND497.H7 A4 1821 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Sir Thomas Lawrence's cabinet of gems / with biographical & descriptive memorials by P.G. Patmore.

30 p. , [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: 1837.

Creators: Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830. Patmore, Peter George, 1786-

GUSN: 150909

Call Number: Rare Browne ND1329.L37 P38 1837

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