Historic New England

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

Nouveau traitâe âelâementaire de perspective áa l'usage des artistes et des personnes qui s'occupent du dessin : prâecâedâe des premiáeres notions de la gâeomâetrie âelâementaire, de la gâeomâetrie descriptive, de l'optique et de la projection des ombres / par J.-B. Cloquet.

viii, 333, [1] p. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1823.

Creators: Cloquet, J. B.

GUSN: 150960

Call Number: Rare NC750.C6 1823

Nouveau traitâe âelâementaire de perspective áa l'usage des artistes et des personnes qui s'occupent du dessin : prâecâedâe des premiáeres notions de la gâeomâetrie âelâementaire, de la gâeomâetrie descriptive, de l'optique et de la projection des ombres / par J.-B. Cloquet.

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

Date: 1823.

Creators: Cloquet, J. B.

GUSN: 150961

Call Number: Rare NC750.C66 1823

The bachelor's own book : being the progress of Mr. Lambkin, (gent.) in the pursuit of pleasure ...

1 l., 12 plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1844.

Creators: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

GUSN: 150962

Call Number: Rare NC1479.C83 1844

The bachelor's own book : being the progress of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.) in the pursuit of pleasure and amusement, and also in search of health and happiness / designed, etched, and published by George Cruikshank.

[1], 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.

Date: [18--?]

Creators: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

GUSN: 150963

Call Number: Rare NC1479.C83

Pattern design : a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy, planning & evolution of repeated ornament / by Lewis F. Day.

xx, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910.

GUSN: 150964

Call Number: Rare NK1510.D38

A handbook of ornament / by Franz Sales Meyer.

viii, 548 p. : ill., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: [194-?]

Creators: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-

GUSN: 150965

Call Number: Rare NK1510.M6

Picturesque Maine. With descriptions by M.F. Sweetser.

65 p. plates. 21 cm.

Date: [1880]

Creators: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897.

GUSN: 150966

Call Number: Rare F25.S97

The history of New-Hampshire ... / by Jeremy Belknap.

3 v. : fold. map ; 21 cm.

Date: 1791-92.

Creators: Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798.

GUSN: 150967

Call Number: Rare F34.B43 vol.2 (and 1 more)

The science of double entry book-keeping : simplified, arranged and methodized ... containing also, a key, explaining the manner of journalizing ... / J.C. Colt, accountant.

188 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1841.

GUSN: 150968

Call Number: Stacks HF5635.S3

A literary history of wallpaper

211 p. illus. [part col.] ports., facsims. 26 cm.

Date: 1960.

Creators: Entwisle, E. A.

GUSN: 150969

Call Number: Ref. NK3400.E53 (and 1 more)

The book of wallpaper; a history and an appreciation. With an introd. by Sacheverell Sitwell.

151 p. illus. (part col.) ports. 26 cm.

Date: [1954]

Creators: Entwisle, E. A.

GUSN: 150970

Call Number: Stacks NK3400.E5

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

The art of garden design in Italy / by H. Inigo Triggs.

xii, 135 p. : ill., plans,128 plates , 45 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Triggs, H. Inigo (Harry Inigo), 1876-1923.

GUSN: 151073

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. SB466.I8 T8

The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century, by Warwick Wroth, assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth.

xviii, 335 p. illus. (part col.), ports. 22 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Wroth, Warwick William, 1858-1911. Wroth, Arthur Edgar.

GUSN: 151074

Call Number: Rare Browne DA689.P2 W9

Hints to gentlemen of landed property. By Nathaniel Kent, of Fulham.

vii, 282 p., 10 plates (plans) 22 cm.

Date: 1776.

Creators: Kent, Nathaniel, 1737-1810.

GUSN: 151075

Call Number: Rare S455.K4

Andrea Palladio, his life and works / by Banister F. Fletcher ...

xvi, 132 p. : 56 plates, port., plans; 29 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953.

GUSN: 151076

Call Number: Rare Browne NA1123.P2 F6

Sir John Soane / by H. J. Birnstingl ; with 35 illustrations from photographs by F. R. Yerbury.

29 p., [1], 34 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Birnstingl, Harry Joseph, 1890-

GUSN: 151077

Call Number: Rare Browne NA997.S7 B5 1925

Vita dell'architetto Luigi Vanvitelli / Luigi Vanvitelli.

55 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1823.

Creators: Vanvitelli, Luigi, 1700-1773.

GUSN: 151078

Call Number: Rare Browne NA1123.V36 A2 1823

The elements of civil architecture, according to Vitruvius and other ancients, and the most approved practice of modern authors especially Palladio. By Henry Aldrich ... Tr. by the Rev. Philip Smyth.

viii, 151 p. front. (port.) LV pl. (incl. plans) 24 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Aldrich, Henry, 1647-1710. Smyth, Philip, tr.

GUSN: 151079

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.A4

The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design, and machinist's and engineer's drawing companion : forming a complete course of mechanical, engineering, and architectural drawing / rewritten and arranged, with additional matter and plates, selections from and examples of the most useful and generally employed mechanism of the day, by William Johnson ; translated from the French of M. Armengaud, the elder ... and MM. Armengaud, the younger, and Amoureux.

v, 196 p. : ill., plates ; 29 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Armengaud, aãinâe (Jacques-Eugáene), 1810-1891. Armengaud, Charles A., 1813-1893. Amouroux, Jules. Johnson, William, 1823-1864.

GUSN: 151080

Call Number: Rare T353.A72 1854

Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de vignole, ... l'art de Bastire / par le sieur C.A. D'Aviler ... par Pierre-Jean Mariette.

iii-lvj, 447, [1] p., [77] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; cm.

Date: 1760.

Creators: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653-1701. Vignola, 1507-1573. Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564. Mariette, Pierre Jean, 1694-1774.

GUSN: 151081

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2510.A95 1760

The cottage builder's manual / by Z. Baker ...

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

Date: 1856.

Creators: Baker, Z. (Zephaniah), 1815-1894.

GUSN: 151082

Call Number: Rare NA7561.B35 1856

The architect : or, Practical house carpenter / illustrated by sixty-four engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art; designed for the use of carpenters and builders. By Asher Benjamin ...

viii, [9]-119 p. : LXIV plates, plans, diagrs. ; 27 x 23 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151083

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B45 1851

The architect, or, Complete builder's guide / illustrated by sixty-six engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art ; designed for the use of builders, particularly of carpenters and joiners ; by Asher Benjamin.

83 p., 66 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.

Date: 1845.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151084

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B44 1845

The architect; or, Practical house carpenter; illustrated by sixty-four engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art; designed for the use of carpenters and builders.

viii, [9]-119 p. illus. 27 x 23 cm.

Date: 1853 [c1847]

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151085

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B4

Elements of architecture : containing the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders, with all their details and embellishments / Also, the theory and practice of carpentry ... Containing twenty-eight plates. By A. Benjamin ...

232 p. : ill., plates, tables. 24 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151086

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B43

Practice of architecture : containing the five orders of architecture, and an additional column and entablature, with all their elements and details explained and illustrated, for the use of carpenters and practical men, with sixty plates / by Asher Benjamin.

92 p., 60 leaves of plates : ill., plans, ; 27 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151087

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B48 1855

The rudiments of architecture, being a treatise on practical geometry, on Grecian and Roman mouldings; shewing the best method of drawing their curves, with remarks on the effect of both. Also, on the origin of building, on the five orders of architecture, on their general and particular parts and embellishments, with examples for cornices, base and surbase mouldings, architraves and stairs, correctly engraved on thirty-four copperplates. By Asher Benjamin.

96 p. ill., plates (2 fold.) 22 cm.

Date: 1820.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151088

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B5 1820

The American builder's general price book and estimator : to elucidate the principles of acertaining the correct value of every description of artificers' work required in building ... in any part of New England ... to which are added a variety of useful tables, memoranda, etc.

130, [2], 78, [1] p. incl. tables ; 22 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Gallier, James, b. 1798.

GUSN: 151089

Call Number: Rare TH435.G35 1836

The American builder's companion, or, A new system of architecture : particularly adapted to the present style of building in the United States of America ... / by Asher Benjamin and Daniel Raynard.

70 p. : ill., plates ; 27 cm.

Date: 1806

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845. Raynerd, Daniel

GUSN: 151090

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2610.B4 1806

The American builder's companion, or, A system of architecture particluarly adapted to the present style of building : treating on practical geometry, the origin of building ... / by Asher Benjamin.

iv, [2] p., pp. [5]-104 p., [1] p., [82] p. of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1811.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151091

Call Number: Rare NA2610.B4 1811 c.1 (and 1 more)

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