Historic New England

Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors & windows, taken from Inigo Jones & other celebrated architects : to each plate, tables containing the exact proportions of the several parts, are likewise fitted : very useful to all true lovers of architecture, but particularly so to those who are engaged in the noble art of building / by William Halfpenny.

48 p., [26] leaves : ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.

GUSN: 151111

Call Number: Rare NA2810.H35

A series of select and original modern designs for dwelling houses, for the use of carpenters and builders: adapted to the style of building in the United States: with twenty-four plates. By John Hall ...

31, [1] p. 24 plates 29 cm.

Date: 1848.

Creators: Hall, John, architect.

GUSN: 151112

Call Number: Rare Browne NA7201.H25

The carpenters' and builders' guide : being a handbook for workmen, also a manual of reference for contractors, builders, etc. / by George A. Hall.

48 p., 4 p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Hall, George A.

GUSN: 151113

Call Number: Rare TH5607.H35 1870a

The builder's guide : a practical treatise on Grecian and Roman architecture, together with specimens of the Gothic style : also, practical treatises on geometry, decimal fractions, mensuration, trigonometry, and carpentry and joinery / by Chester Hills ; revised and improved with additions of villa and school-house architecture by H. Austin and Henry Barnard.

96 p., 50 leaves of plates (part double) : ill. ; 38 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Hills, Chester. Austin, Henry, 1804-1891. Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900.

GUSN: 151114

Call Number: Rare TH145.H5 1846

Treatises on architecture and building. From the Encyclopaedia Britannica; seventh edition. With twenty-six engravings.

105 p. 28 plates (incl. plans, diagrs.) 29 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Hosking, William, 1800-1861.

GUSN: 151115

Call Number: Rare NA2520.T7y 1832

The gentleman's and builder's repository; or, Architecture displayed ... The designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole.

4 p. l., 99, [1] p. front., illus. (incl. diagrs.) LXXXIV plates, 2 diagrs. on 1 l. 26 cm.

Date: 1738.

Creators: Hoppus, E. (Edward), d. 1739.

GUSN: 151116

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2810.H6 1738

Designs for parsonage houses, alms houses, etc.etc. with examples of gables, and other curious remains of old English architecture, by T.F. Hunt ...

vi p., 1 ¾., 34 p. xxi pl. (incl. plans.) 31 x 25 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hunt, Thomas F.

GUSN: 151117

Call Number: Rare NA2620.H8

Half a dozen hints on picturesque domestic architecture, in a series of designs for gate lodges, gamekeepers' cottages, and other rural residences. By T. F. Hunt ...

[34] p. 14 pl. (incl. plans) 31 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hunt, Thomas F.

GUSN: 151118

Call Number: Rare NA8302.H9

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy : both in theory and practice. In two books ... / by Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

2 v. in 1. : ill., plates, diagrs. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1755.

Creators: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774 Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731 Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 151119

Call Number: Rare NC749.K55

Portes cocháeres, portes d'entrâee, croisâees, balcons, entablemens et dâetails de menuiserie et de serrurerie des âedifices les plus remarquables de Paris. A l'usage des architectes et des amateurs. Par J. Ch. Krafft.

36 p. 50 plates. 27 x 36 cm.

Date: 1810.

Creators: Krafft, J. Ch. (Jean-Charles), 1764-1833.

GUSN: 151120

Call Number: Rare NA1050.K89

The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs; or : the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture ... / with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... To which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio, by B.L.

24 p. : [200] leaves of plates ; cm.

Date: 1756.]

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

GUSN: 151121

Call Number: Rare NA3310.L3 1756 (and 1 more)

My life in two centuries / by Emma Franklin Estabrook.

112 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1955.

Creators: Estabrook, Emma Franklin, 1865-

GUSN: 150821

Call Number: Stacks PS3509.S594 Z52

Memoir of Anne Gorham Everett; with extracts from her correspondence and journal. By Philippa Call Bush.

xi, 320 p. 21 cm.

Date: 1857.

Creators: Bush, Philippa Call.

GUSN: 150822

Call Number: Stacks CT275.E87 B6

Memorial of Edward Everett.

315 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1865.

Creators: New England Historic Genealogical Society.

GUSN: 150823

Call Number: Stacks E340.E8 N5 1865

The centennial anniversary of the birth of Edward Everett / celebrated by the Dorchester Historical Society, April 11, 1894.

106 p. : ill. ; 27cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Dorchester Historical Society (Dorchester, Mass.)

GUSN: 150824

Call Number: Stacks E340.E4 D6

Our own day / by Elsie P. Mitchell.

168 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Mitchell, Elsie P., 1926-

GUSN: 150825

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.F68 M57

Kate Field; a record, by Lilian Whiting.

viii, 610 p. : col. front., ports., facsim. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Whiting, Lilian, 1859-

GUSN: 150826

Call Number: Stacks PS1669.F2 Z7

Allan Forbes, 1874-1955 / by Walter Muir Whitehill.

32 p. : ill., port ; 19 cm.

Date: [1955?]

Creators: Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905- Second Bank-State Street Trust Company.

GUSN: 150827

Call Number: Stacks HG2463.F67 W58 1955

The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin : celebration by the commonwealth of Massachusetts and the city of Boston, in Symphony Hall, Boston, January 17, 1906.

113 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Green, Samuel A. (Samuel Abbott), 1830-1918. Franklin Bicentennial Joint Committee. Boston. Boston (Mass.). City Council.

GUSN: 150828

Call Number: Stacks E302.6.F8 F82

Richard Gale, yeoman of Watertown in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1614-1678 / Compiled by Edward Chenery Gale.

28 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1932.

Creators: Gale, Edward Chenery, 1862-

GUSN: 150829

Call Number: Stacks CS71.G152 1932

Ezra Stiles Gannett : Unitarian minister in Boston, 1824-1871.

572 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1875.

Creators: Gannett, William Channing, 1840-1923.

GUSN: 150830

Call Number: Stacks BX9869.G3 G3

A memorial of William Gaston from the City of Boston.

60 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Boston (Mass.). City Council.

GUSN: 150831

Call Number: Stacks F73.52.G38 B68

Gen. John Glover and his Marblehead Regiment in the Revolutionary War : a paper read before the Marblehead Historical Society, May 14, 1903/ by Nathan P. Sanborn.

56 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Sanborn, Nathan P. (Nathan Perkins), 1825-1911. Marblehead Historical Society (Marblehead, Mass.).

GUSN: 150832

Call Number: Stacks E263.M4 S2

Nathaniel Goddard : a Boston merchant, 1767-1853 / Henry G. Pickering.

272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Pickering, Henry Goddard.

GUSN: 150833

Call Number: Stacks CT275.G545 P53

Samuel Griswold Goodrich, creator of Peter Parley; a study of his life and work.

181 p. illus., facsims., maps. 22 cm.

Date: [1968]

Creators: Roselle, Daniel, 1920-

GUSN: 150834

Call Number: Stacks PS1755.R6

The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene. A report of the Joint Special Committee of the General Assembly of Rhode Island appointed to take into consideration the desirability of securing within the state of Rhode Island a permanent resting-place for the remains of General Nathanael Greene.

iv, 257 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Field, Edward, 1858-1928. Gardiner, Asa Bird, 1839-1919. Rhode Island. General Assembly. Joint Special Committee on the Remains of Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene. Rhode Island. General Assembly, 1903.

GUSN: 150835

Call Number: Stacks E207.G9 R4

Captain Gruchy's gambols : the trials of a Boston privateer / by C. L. Reeves ; with ill. by David Gordon Brown, the author, and colonial artists.

347 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1975.

Creators: Reeves, C. L.

GUSN: 150836

Call Number: Stacks F73.4.G78 R4

Documentary life of Nathan Hale, comprising all available official and private documents bearing on the life of the patriot, together with an appendix, showing the background of his life ... By George Dudley Seymour.

xxxiii, [2], 627, [5] p. illus. (incl. facsims.) pl., ports., fold. tab. 25 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945.

GUSN: 150837

Call Number: Stacks E280.H2 S516

My life and times / by Cyrus Hamlin, missionary in Turkey ...

3 p. l., 3-538 p. : ill., plates, ports. ; 22 cm.

Date: [c1893]

Creators: Hamlin, Cyrus, 1811-1900.

GUSN: 150838

Call Number: Stacks BV3142.H22 A3 1893

John Hancock, his book / by Abram English Brown.

x, 286 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1898.

Creators: Brown, A. E. (Abram English), 1849-1909.

GUSN: 150839

Call Number: 85M Stacks E302.6.H23 B76 1898

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life.

ix, [1] p., 1 ¾., 497, [1] p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Harland, Marion, 1830-1922.

GUSN: 150840

Call Number: Stacks PS3008.A4

Brooke Herford, a memoir by John Cuckson.

84 p., ports. 20 cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Cuckson, John, 1846-1907.

GUSN: 150841

Call Number: Stacks BX9869.H4 C8

Life and times of Stephen Higginson, member of the Continental congress (1783) and author of the "Laco" letters, relating to John Hancock (1789) / by Thomas Wentworth Higginson ...

vii, [1], 305, [1] p., 1 l. : ill., plates, ports., facsims. ; 21 cm.

Date: New York : 1907.

Creators: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.

GUSN: 150842

Call Number: Stacks F69.H63

Golden anniversary celebration by the Plymouth Cordage Company in honor of Gideon Francis Holmes : Plymouth, Massachusetts, March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and nine.

150 p., : [16] p. of plates ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1909]

Creators: Plymouth Cordage Company. Plymouth, Mass.

GUSN: 150843

Call Number: Stacks HD9999.C75 M3 1909

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes : a biography / by Silas Bent.

xi, 386 p., [7] leaves of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1932.

Creators: Bent, Silas, 1882-1945.

GUSN: 150844

Call Number: Stacks E664.H773 B4

Oliver Wendell Holmes : the autocrat and his fellow-boarders / by Samuel McChord Crothers.

64 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

GUSN: 150845

Call Number: Stacks PS1981.C7

Reminiscences, 1819-1899 / by Julia Ward Howe ...

2 p. ¾., 465, [1] p. : front., plates, ports., 2 fold. facsim. 21 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910.

GUSN: 150846

Call Number: Stacks PS2018.A4

The life of Thomas Hutchinson, royal governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay, by James K. Hosmer...

xxviii, 453 p. front, (port.) 1 pl., facsim. 23 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834-1927. Massachusetts. Governor (1771-1774 : Hutchinson) Massachusetts. General court, 1773.

GUSN: 150847

Call Number: Stacks F67.H935

A memoir of Dr. James Jackson; with sketches of his father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry, Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry, by James Jackson Putnam, M.D.

456 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Putnam, James Jackson, 1846-1918.

GUSN: 150848

Call Number: Stacks R154.J3 P6 1906

Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone / Sarah Way Sherman.

xii, 333 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Sherman, Sarah Way.

GUSN: 150849

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS2133.S54 1989

Sarah Orne Jewett.

174 p. : port ; 23 cm.

Date: [c1960]

Creators: Frost, John E. (John Eldridge), 1917-

GUSN: 150850

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS2133.F767 1960 c.1 (and 1 more)

Master smart woman : a portrait of Sarah Orne Jewett : based on the film by Jane Morrison in collaboration with Peter Namuth / text by Cynthia Keyworth.

179 p. : ill. ; 19 x 27 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Keyworth, C. L. (Cynthia L.) Morrison, Jane, 1947-1987.

GUSN: 150851

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS2133.K4 1988 c.1 (and 1 more)

Sarah Orne Jewett, by Francis Otto Matthiessen.

159 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: c1929.

Creators: Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950.

GUSN: 150852

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS2133.M3 c.1 1929 (and 2 more)

Maxim Karolik, 1893-1963 / Brian O'Doherty.

[18] p. : plates ; 26 cm.

Date: [1963]

Creators: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

GUSN: 150853

Call Number: Stacks N5220.K3 B6

Rudyard Kipling in New England / by Howard C. Rice ...

39 p. : plates, facsim. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1936 [i.e. 1937]

Creators: Rice, Howard C. (Howard Crosby), 1904-

GUSN: 150854

Call Number: Stacks PR4856.R5 1936 c.1

Thorn cottage, or The poet's home. A memorial of Frederick Knight, esq., of Rowley, Mass.

108 p. 20 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Knight, Frederick, 1791-1849. Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell), 1789-1835.

GUSN: 150855

Call Number: Stacks PS2196.K65 Z8

Henry Knox, a soldier of the Revolution; major-general in the Continental Army, Washington's chief of artillery, first secretary of war under the Constitution, founder of the Society of the Cincinnati; 1750-1806, by Noah Brooks ...

3 p. ¾., v-xv, 286 p. front., plates, ports., facsim. 21 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903.

GUSN: 150856

Call Number: Stacks E207.K74 B8

Life of Amos A. Lawrence, with extracts from his diary and correspondence, by his son, William Lawrence.

x, 289 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1888.

Creators: Lawrence, William, Bp., 1850-1941.

GUSN: 150857

Call Number: Stacks E415.9.L38 L4 c.1 (and 1 more)

Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee; with selections from his writings and speeches; prepared by John T. Morse, jr.

viii p., 2 ¾., [3]-441 p. 7 pl., 2 port. (incl. front.) 22 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Morse, John Torrey, 1840-1937.

GUSN: 150858

Call Number: Stacks F69 L47

Life and letters of Peter and Susan Lesley / edited by their daughter, Mary Lesley Ames.

2 v. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Ames, Mary Lesley, 1853-1929.

GUSN: 150859

Call Number: Stacks QE22.L6 A7 vol.1 (and 1 more)

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