Historic New England

The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq. president of the Royal Academy, London / compiled from materials furnished by himself by John Galt ; abridged for the use of young persons, by a lady.

iv, 3-89 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1831.

Creators: Galt, John, 1779-1839. West, Benjamin, 1738-1820. Gallaudet, Edward, 1809-1847.

GUSN: 150910

Call Number: Rare ND237.W48 G13 1831

A select collection of valuable and curious arts, and interesting experiments : which are well explained and warranted genuine, and may be performed easily, safely, and at little expense.

132 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1826

Creators: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150911

Call Number: Rare T49.S4 1826

A Select collection of valuable and curious arts and interesting experiments : which are well explained, and warranted genuine and may be performed easily, safely, and at little expense.

[4], [iii]-172 p. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1826.

GUSN: 150912

Call Number: Rare T49.S4 1826

The bloody doughnut; or, The cook's revenge. By Marie Blodget Gookin and Ruth Mary Greenough, assisted by Susan Welles Shaw.

8 p. : ill., plates ; cm.

Date: 1891.

Creators: Gookin, Marie Blodget. Greenough, Ruth Mary.

GUSN: 150913

Call Number: Rare PS1757.G642

A guide to old and new lace in Italy, exhibited at Chicago in 1893.

186 p. front., 2 ports., fold. facsim. 22 cm.

Date: 1893]

Creators: Brazzáa, Countess di, b. 1862.

GUSN: 150914

Call Number: Rare Browne NK9452.B7

An account of remarkable cures, performed by the use of Maredant's antiscorbutic drops.

29 p. ; cm.

Date: [1772?]

Creators: Norton, John, d. 1783.

GUSN: 150915

Call Number: Rare R730.N67 1772

The Book of trades, or, Library of the useful arts. Part II / illustrated with twenty-four copper-plates.

[4], 139 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1807

Creators: Ralph, William, engraver.

GUSN: 150916

Call Number: Rare T47.B72 1807

The art of tanning and currying leather: with an account of all the different processes made use of in Europe and Asia, for dying leather red and yellow. Collected and published at the expence of the Dublin Society ...

xx, 259, [5] p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1780.

Creators: Nourse, J., bookseller, London. Royal Dublin Society.

GUSN: 150917

Call Number: Rare TS965.D81

The Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition, illustrated.

v. : ill., plates, diagrs. ; cm.

Date: [1875]

Creators: Shinn, Earl, 1837-1886. Wilson, Joseph M. (Joseph Miller), 1838-1902.

GUSN: 150918

Call Number: Rare N4825.M2 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Tallis's history and description of the Crystal palace, and the Exhibition of the world's industry in 1851 / illustrated by beautiful steel engravings, from original drawings and daguerreotypes by Beard, Mayall, etc.

3 v. : front., plates. ; 28cm.

Date: 1852]

Creators: Tallis, John, 1815 or 6-1876. Strutt, Jacob George, 1790-1864.

GUSN: 150919

Call Number: Rare T690.B1 T14 vol.1

Soundings from the Atlantic. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

468 p. illus. 19 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

GUSN: 150920

Call Number: Rare PS1972.S7 1864

The rural cemeteries of America.

21 parts. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1847-1853?]

Creators: Cleaveland, N. (Nehemiah), 1796-1877. Smillie, James, 1807-1885, illus. Walter, Cornelia.

GUSN: 150921

Call Number: Stacks F5.R87

The new navy of the United States / by N.L. Stebbins; introduction by the admiral of the navy, George Dewey, U.S.N.; with a supplement on the Revenue cutter service, and an article by Captain Preston H. Uberroth, R.C.S.

[158] p. : ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore, 1847-

GUSN: 150922

Call Number: Stacks VA59.S85

The yachtsman's album : containing portraits of two hundred and forty yachts, representing all classes. Reproduced from photographs, with a descriptive index. / Published by N. L. Stebbins, Boston, Mass. 1896

No description

Date: 1896

Creators: Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore, 1847-

GUSN: 150923

Call Number: Rare GV821.S8

The last men of the Revolution. A photograph of each from life, together with views of their homes printed in colors. Accompanied by brief biographical sketches of the men, by Rev. E. B. Hillard.

64 p. col. plates, ports. 19 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Hillard, Elias Brewster, 1825-1895.

GUSN: 150924

Call Number: Rare E206.H54

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies / by W. Winterbotham.

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

Date: 1796.

Creators: Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829.

GUSN: 150925

Call Number: Rare E18.W79 1796 vol.1

The history of New-England : containing an impartial account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the country to the year of Our Lord, 1700 ; To which is added, The present state of New-England : with a new and accurate map of the country, and an appendix containing their present charter, their ecclesiastical discipline and their municipal-laws / by Daniel Neal.

x, 330 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1720.

Creators: Neal, Daniel, 1678-1743.

GUSN: 150926

Call Number: Rare F7.N43 vol.1

Mount Desert, on the coast of Maine ... By Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin.

[10], [9]-95, [9] p. 5 mounted phot. (incl. front.) fold. map. 19 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Martin, Clara Barnes, d. 1886. Loring, Short & Harmon, Portland, Me., pub.

GUSN: 150927

Call Number: Rare F27.M9 M3

Mt. Desert in 1873 : portrayed in crayon and quill.

15 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: [1873]

Creators: Mount Desert Island.

GUSN: 150928

Call Number: Stacks F27.M9 M68 1873

The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

1 p.¾., 14 p. 32 cm.

Date: 1759.

Creators: Massachusetts.

GUSN: 150929

Call Number: Rare KFM2430 1759.A2

Continuation of the history of the province of Massachusetts bay, from the year 1748. With an introductory sketch of events from its original settlement / by George Richards Minot.

2 v. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1798,1803.

Creators: Minot, George Richards, 1758-1802.

GUSN: 150930

Call Number: Rare F67.M66 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The history of the county of Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts : with a particular account of every town from its first settlement to the present time : including its ecclesiastical state, together with a geographical description of the same : to which is prefixed a map of the county, at large, from actual survey / by Peter Whitney.

vi, 339 p. : 1 folded map, port. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1793.

Creators: Whitney, Peter, 1744-1816

GUSN: 150931

Call Number: Rare F72.W9 W45 1793

Homes of our forefathers in Boston, Old England, and Boston, New England. From original drawings by Edwin Whitefield.

84 p. col. front., col. pl. 26 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin.

GUSN: 150932

Call Number: Rare F73.37.W59

Collection of facts and documents relative to the project of a bridge from South Street in Boston to Dorchester Neck : and the annexation of that peninsula to the town of Boston.

62 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1805.

GUSN: 150933

Call Number: Rare AC901.B3 vol. 65

Poetic localities of Cambridge. Ed. by W. J. Stillman. Illustrated with heliotypes from nature.

41 p. front., 11 pl. 25 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Stillman, William James, 1828-1901, ed.

GUSN: 150934

Call Number: Rare PN6110.P7 C4

Waltham, past and present ; and its industries : with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1738.

152 p. : plates, ports. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Nelson, Charles Alexander.

GUSN: 150935

Call Number: Rare F74.W2 N4

Plans and sections of the obelisk on Bunker's hill. With the details of experiments made in quarrying the granite.

31 p. illus. 35 cm.

Date: 1843.

Creators: Willard, S. (Solomon)

GUSN: 150936

Call Number: Rare NA9350.B6 W5 1843

Acts and laws, passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England.

163 p. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1726.

Creators: New Hampshire (Colony) New Hampshire. General Assembly.

GUSN: 150937

Call Number: Rare KFN1225.2 1726

Chronicles of the first planters of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1636. Now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes. By Alexander Young...

viii, 571 p. port., map. 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Young, Alexander, 1800-1854.

GUSN: 150938

Call Number: Rare F67.Y68

Newport: our social capital, by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer. With frontispiece in color by Henry Hutt, many illustrations in photogravure and double-tone and from drawings by Edward Stratton Holloway.

401 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Van Rensselaer, May, 1848-1925.

GUSN: 150939

Call Number: Rare F89.N5 V2

Horace Walpole, a memoir : with an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill press / By Austin Dobson.

333 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: [c1890]

Creators: Dobson, Austin 1840-1921.

GUSN: 150940

Call Number: Rare Browne DA483.W2 D6 1890a

A new critical pronouncing dictionary of the English language ... To which will be prefixed, Mr. Walker's principles of English pronunciation ... Compiled from authors of the most approved reputation: with considerable additions. By an American gentleman ...

xiv, 85, [941] p. 26 cm.

Date: 1813.

Creators: Coxe, Richard S. (Richard Smith), 1792-1865. Walker, John, 1732-1807.

GUSN: 150941

Call Number: Rare PE1620.C75

A valuable assistant to every man: or, The American clerk's magazine. Containing the most useful and necessary forms of writings, which commonly occur between man and man, under the names of acquittances, affidavits ... By Samuel Freeman.

294 p. 18 cm.

Date: 1802.

Creators: Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831.

GUSN: 150942

Call Number: Rare KF170.F74 1802

An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great-Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs ... / By N. Bailey ...

[912] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo in 4s)

Date: 1773.

Creators: Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742.

GUSN: 150943

Call Number: Rare PE1620.B3 1773

The royal standard English dictionary : in which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, and their part of speech properly distinguished, but likewise, by a key to this work ... : to which is added the Scripture proper names ... / by William Perry.

xii, 516 p. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1806.

Creators: Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh. E. Merriam & Co.

GUSN: 150944

Call Number: Rare PE1620.P43 1806

The Toppans of Toppan's Lane : with their descendants and relations / collected and arranged by Joshua Coffin.

30 p. : geneal. tables ; 22 cm.

Date: 1862.

Creators: Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864.

GUSN: 150945

Call Number: Rare CS71. T175 1862

A critical pronouncing dictionary of the English language ... To which will be prefixed, Mr. Walker's principles of English pronunciation ... Compiled from authors of the most approved reputation: with considerable additions. By an American gentleman ...

xiv, 85, [941] p. 26 cm.

Date: 1813.

Creators: Coxe, Richard S. (Richard Smith), 1792-1865. Walker, John, 1732-1807.

GUSN: 150946

Call Number: Rare PE1620.C75

Perspectivae pictorum atque architectorum, I.[-II.] pars ... = Der Mahler und Baumeister Perspectiv, erster [-zweyter] Theil ... / inventa, designata & primáum edita Romae áa Fr. Andrea Puteo ... hac forma concinnata áa Joanne Boxbarth.

2 v. : ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [1709?].

Creators: Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709. Boxbarth, Johann, 18th cent.

GUSN: 150947

Call Number: Rare NC749.P8 pt.2

Trois siáecles de papiers peints / Eugene Claudius Petis.

135 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Musâee des beaux-arts de Rennes. Union centrale des arts dâecoratifs (Paris, France)

GUSN: 150948

Call Number: Stacks NK3380.R4

Old time wall papers; an account of the pictorial papers on our forefathers' walls, with a study of the historical development of wall paper making and decoration, by Kate Sanborn.

xiv, p., 1 ¾., 116 p., 1 ¾. illus. LXXXIII (i. e. 62) pl. (part col., incl. col. front.) 30 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917.

GUSN: 150949

Call Number: Stacks NK3400.S2 c.1 (and 3 more)

Oeuvres d'architecture : contenant les desseins tant en plans qu'en elevations, des principaux, & des plus nouveaux batimens dans le dernier agrandissement de la ville d'Amsterdam & autres endroits de ces provinces / ordonnez par Philippe Vingboons ...

2 v. in 1 : ill., plans ; 41 cm.

Date: 1715.

Creators: Vingboons, Philips, 17th cent.

GUSN: 150950

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7363.A4 V5 vol.1

The carpenter's treasure; : a collection of designs for temples, with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the Gothic taste; with the centres at large, for striking Gothic curves and mouldings; and some specimens of rails, in the Chinese taste: forming a complete system for rural decorations. / Neatly engraved on sixteen plates, from the original drawings of N. Wallis, architect.

[4] p., XVI leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 29 cm. (fol.)

Date: [1773]

Creators: Wallis, N.

GUSN: 150951

Call Number: Stacks NA8450.W35 1773

A collection of designs for modern embellishments suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, folding doors, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes, &c. on 25 plates, by C.A. Busby.

25 plates (partly col.) 24 cm.

Date: [1808?]

Creators: Busby, Charles Augustus, 1788-1834.

GUSN: 150952

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2135.B9

The decorative arts : their relation to modern life and progress : an address delivered before the Trades' Guild of Learning / by William Morris.

50 p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Morris, William, 1834-1896.

GUSN: 150953

Call Number: Rare NK1132.M8 1878b

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide : being a complete drawing book, in which will be comprised treatises on geometry and perspective ... numerous engravings ... / by George Smith ...

viii, 219 p., [152] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1826.

Creators: Smith, George.

GUSN: 150954

Call Number: Rare NC705.S5

Examples of household taste / by Walter Smith.

x, 521 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: [1875]

Creators: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886.

GUSN: 150955

Call Number: Rare NK512.P44 P4 1875

A history of English furniture / by Percy Macquoid ; with plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author.

4 v. in 2 : ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm.

Date: 1904-1908.

Creators: Macquoid, Percy, d. 1925.

GUSN: 150956

Call Number: Rare NK2528.M2 1904 vol.1 (and 3 more)

Gothic furniture : consisting of twenty-seven coloured engravings / from designs by A. Pugin. With descriptive letter-press.

iv, 26 p.,[25] l. of plates ; 24 cm.

Date: [1826?]

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.

GUSN: 150957

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2542.P8 G68 1826

The house beautiful : essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks / by Clarence Cook.

336 p., [1] leaf of plates : 112 ill. (1 col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 Marsh, Henry. Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. former owner. Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150958

Call Number: Rare NK1960 C66

Textile fabrics; a descriptive catalogue of the collection of church-vestments, dresses, silk stuffs, needle-work and tapestries, forming that section of the Museum. By the Very Rev. Daniel Rock, D. D.. Pub. for the Science and art department of the Committee of council on education.

clxviii, 356 p. col. front., 19 pl. (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Rock, Daniel, 1799-1871. South Kensington Museum

GUSN: 150959

Call Number: Rare NK8802.L7 A5 1870

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