Historic New England

The American universal geography, or, A view of the present state of all the empires, kingdoms, states, and republics in the known world, and of the United States of America in particular : in two parts ... illustrated with maps of the countries described / by Jedidiah Morse ...

2 v. : ill., maps (engravings) ; 23 cm. (8vo)

Date: 1793.

Creators: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826. American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 151668

Call Number: Stacks G121.M875 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Wood carving: design and workmanship, by George Jack; with drawings by the author and other illustrations.

311 p. illus., 16 plates. 20 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Jack, George

GUSN: 151669

Call Number: Stacks NK9704.J2

The oriental rug; a monograph on eastern rugs and carpets, saddle-bags, mats & pillows, with a consideration of kinds and classes, types, borders, figures, dyes, symbols, etc., together with some practical advice to collectors, by D.W. Ellwanger ...

vii p., 2 ¾., 154 p. illus., XII col. pl. (incl. front.) 23 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Ellwanger, William De Lancey, 1854-1913.

GUSN: 151670

Call Number: Stacks NK2808.E5

The American universal geography, or, A view of the present state of all the empires, kingdoms, states, and republicks in the known world, and of the United States of America in particular ... / by Jedidah Morse.

2 v. : ill., 6 fold. maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 1805.

Creators: Morse, Jedidah, 1761-1826. Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823. Lewis, Samuel, d. 1865.

GUSN: 151671

Call Number: Stacks G121.M878 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Formal gardens in England and Scotland : their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features / by H. Inigo Triggs. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the author and fifty three reproduced from photographs by Charles Latham.

xxiv, 122 p. : ill., plans, plates ; 43 cm.

Date: 1902.

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

GUSN: 151772

Call Number: Rare Ovr. SB466.G7 T8 pt.1 (and 2 more)

Architecture, et parties qui en dâependent.

19 p., [68] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1779?]

Creators: Direx, Benard, ill.

GUSN: 151773

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2760.A73

Bicknell's village builder : elevations and plans for cottages, villas, suburban residences, farm houses, stables and carriage houses, store fronts, school-houses, churches, court-houses, and a model jail; also exterior and interior details for public and private buildings, with approved forms of contracts and specifications, [etc.], Containing fifty-five plates drawn to scale...

[17] p., 54 plates ; 34 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Bicknell, A. J. (Amos Jackson)

GUSN: 151774

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2610.B58

How to build, furnish and decorate : consisting of elevations and plans for houses, barns, and every description of outbuilding, accompanied with clear and concise instructions; also, a complete treatise on house furnishing and decoration. Six hundred and fifty illustrations.

[106], 38, [60] p. : ill., plans ; 35 cm.

Date: c1883.

Creators: Co-operative Architects, New York.

GUSN: 151775

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7130.C8 c.1 (and 1 more)

Modern American architecture : designs and plans for villas, farm-houses, cottages, city residences, churches, school-houses, etc., etc. Containing fifty-five original plates giving in detail plans and illustrations suited to all parts of the country / by M. F. Cummings ... and C. C. Miller ...

[38] p. : front., 54 plates ; 36 x 28 cm.

Date: 1868, c1867.

Creators: Cummings, M. F. (Marcus Fayette), 1836-1905. Miller, Charles Crosby, 1831-1903.

GUSN: 151776

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2610.C8

The builder's guide, or, A practical treatise on the several orders of Grecian and Roman architecture : together with the Gothic style of building ... / by Chester Hills.

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

Date: 1836, c1834.

Creators: Hills, Chester.

GUSN: 151777

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TH145.H5

Menuisier en batimens.

16 p., [38] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.

Date: [19--?]

GUSN: 151778

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TH5605.M46

Palliser's American architecture, or Every man a complete builder / by Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects ...

95 p., [8] p. : ill., plates, plans ; 35 cm.

Date: 1903, [c1898]

Creators: Palliser, Palliser & Co.

GUSN: 151779

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7207.P35 1903

A series of instructive examples in architectural, engineering and mechanical drawing, illustrated by thirty large folio engravings of recently constructed works in England.

[29] leaves of plates ; 20 x 47 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Weale, John, 1791-1862

GUSN: 151780

Call Number: Stacks NA2700.W33 1841

Original sketches for art furniture : in the Jacobean, Queen Anne, Adams, and other styles / by A. Jonquet.

2 p. ¾., 65 plates ; 38 cm.

Date: 1880.

Creators: Jonquet, A.

GUSN: 151781

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2542.J6

The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste ... to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture and rules of perspective ... / by Thomas Chippendale.

x, 27 p., [153] leaves of plates : ill. ; 48 x 31 cm.

Date: 1754.

Creators: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

GUSN: 151782

Call Number: Stacks NK2260.F87 1988

Household furniture and interior decoration / Thomas Hope.

53 [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1807.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831. Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887.

GUSN: 151783

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2135.H7 M8 1807

Elizabethan interiors / by C. J. Charles.

40 leaves, [39] plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: [191-?]

Creators: Charles, C. J. (Charles Joel), 1871-

GUSN: 151784

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA625.C5

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide; or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture ... displaying a great variety of patterns ... with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also, the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and co. ...

3 p. l., 24 p., 124 pl. (1 double) 38 x 25 cm.

Date: 1794. 1897.

Creators: A. Hepplewhite and Co.

GUSN: 151785

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2542.H5

In English homes : the internal character, furniture & adornments of some of the most notable houses of England historically depicted / from photographs specially taken by Charles Latham.

xxxii, 421 p. : ill. ; 41cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Latham, Charles Tipping, Henry Avray, 1855-1933.

GUSN: 151786

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7328.L4 1904

In English homes : the internal character, furniture and adornments of some of the most notable houses of England historically depicted from photographs specially taken by Charles Latham.

421 p. : ill. ; 40 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Latham, Charles.

GUSN: 151787

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7328.L4 1907

Recueil d'estampes relatives áa l'ornementation des appartements : aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siáecles; pub. sous la direction & avec un texte explicatif par M. H. Destailleur ... gravâees en fac similâe par MM. R. Pfnor, Carresse et Riester d'apráes les compositions de Du Cerceau, Lepautre, Berain, Daniel Marot, Meissonnier, La Londe, etc. ...

2 v. : plates ; 46 cm.

Date: 1863-71.

Creators: Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893.

GUSN: 151788

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NK2049.D4 vol.1

Recueil de dâecorations intâerieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport áa l'ameublement comme vases trâepieds, candâelabres ... etc.

1 p. l., 43 p., 72 pl. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1812.

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

GUSN: 151789

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NK2135.P4 1812

The book of American interiors : prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustraed in heliotype.

x, 135 p. : front., ill., 21 pl. ; 35 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883.

GUSN: 151790

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2851.E6 (and 1 more)

Colonial furniture : measured drawings / by Donald Millar.

31 folded sheets : ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Millar, Donald.

GUSN: 151791

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2406 M54 1925

The study book of furniture and furnishing : being a series of fifty-six plates of designs showing interiors, cabinet work, upholstery and sundries.

1 l. : 56 plates ; 43 cm.

Date: [n.d.]

GUSN: 151792

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NK2230.S78

The old silver of American churches, by E. Alfred Jones ...

p. ¾., ix-lxxxvii, 566 p., 1 ¾. illus., CXLV pl. 40 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Jones, E. Alfred (Edward Alfred), 1872-1943. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

GUSN: 151793

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK7215.J73

Illustrated catalogue of art tiles made by J. G. and J. F. Low.

1 v. : 30 plates.

Date: c1884.

Creators: Low, J. G. Low, J. F.

GUSN: 151794

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK4675.L8 1884

Ancient oriental carpet patterns after pictures and originals of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / with descriptive text by Julius Lessing ...

25 p. : ill., 30 col. pl. ; 50 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Lessing, Julius, 1843-1908.

GUSN: 151795

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2808.L6

Modern ornamentation : being a series of original designs for the patterns of textile fabrics, for the ornamentation of manufactures in wood, metal, pottery, &c.; also for the decoration of walls & ceilings and other flat surfaces / by Chr. Dresser.

[4] p., 50 plates (part col.) ; 39 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Dresser, Christopher.

GUSN: 151796

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TT857 D74 c.1 (and 1 more)

Suggestions in floral design. By F. Edward Hulme ...

2 p. ¾., [3]-52 p. col. front., L col. pl. 37 cm.

Date: [1878-79]

Creators: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.

GUSN: 151797

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK1565.H9

Rudiments of curvilinear design / by George Phillips.

v, [2], 8-96 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 58 cm.

Date: [1839?]

Creators: Phillips, George.

GUSN: 151798

Call Number: Rare NK1530.P55

The knave of hearts / by Louise Saunders; with pictures by Maxfield Parrish.

7 p. ¾., 9-46 p. 1 ¾. : col. front., col. ill., col. plates ; 36 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Saunders, Louise. Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966.

GUSN: 151799

Call Number: Stacks PS3537.A885 K5 1925

Architectural water-colours & etchings of W. Walcot / with an introduction by Sir Reginald Blomfield ...

x, 139 p. : front., ill., plates, port. ; 36 cm.

Date: 1919.

Creators: Walcot, William, 1874-1943.

GUSN: 151800

Call Number: Rare Ovr. ND1942.W3 A4

Photogravures of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverly Farms, Pride's Crossing / original negatives by Jeannette M. Appleton ; reproduced by the New York Photogravure Co., New York.

[2] leaves, [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 x 36 cm.

Date: c1891.

Creators: Appleton, Jeannette M. New York Photogravure Co.

GUSN: 151801

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TR652.A66

A description of Tremont House : with architectural illustrations ...

[4], 36 p., XXXI leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 35 cm.

Date: 1830.

Creators: Eliot, William Havard, 1796-1831. Rogers, Isaiah, 1800-1869.

GUSN: 151802

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7845.B7 T7

Portrait gallery of distinguished American citizens : with biographical sketches, and fac-similes of original letters / by William H. Brown.

111 p. : front., ports., facsims. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Brown, William H.

GUSN: 151803

Call Number: Stacks E176.B892

Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant : containing not only the words, and their explication, but their etymologies ... also explaining hard and technical words ... illustrated with near five hundred cuts ... likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our antient charters, statutes, writs ... also the ... mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. ... to which is added a collection of proper names of persons and places in Great-Britain ... / collected by several hands ; the mathematical part by G. Gordon ; the botanical by P. Miller ; the whole revis'd and improv'd with many thousand additions by N. Bailey ...

[818] p. : ill. ; 36 cm. (fol.)

Date: 1730.

Creators: Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742. Gordon, George, fl. 1719-1726. Miller, Philip, 1691-1771. Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742. Universal etymological English dictionary.

GUSN: 151804

Call Number: Rare Ovr. PE1620.B3 1730

Edwin Whitefield - Nineteenth century North American scenery / Bettina A. Norton.

158 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Norton, Bettina A.

GUSN: 151805

Call Number: Rare N6537.W455 N67 1977 (and 2 more)

Centennial portfolio: a souvenir of the international exhibition at Philadelphia, comprising lithographic views of fifty of its principal buildings, with letter-press description by Thompson Westcott.

viii p., 52 numb. ¾., plates, plans. 19 x 29 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Westcott, Thompson.

GUSN: 151806

Call Number: Stacks T825.C1 W4

New England, a handbook for travellers : a guide to the chief cities and popular resorts of New England ... from New York to Quebec.

xvi, 399, 24 p. : maps (some fold.) ; 17 cm.

Date: 1873.

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

GUSN: 151807

Call Number: Stacks F2.3.S94 1873

Enjine!--Enjine! : A story of fire protection / by Kenneth Holcomb Dunshee.

3 p. l., 5-63 [1] p. : ill. (part col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: 1939.

Creators: Dunshee, Kenneth Holcomb.

GUSN: 151808

Call Number: Stacks TH9505.N5 D8 1939

The olden time series : gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, selected and arranged with brief comments / by Henry M. Brooks.

6 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1822-1898.

GUSN: 151809

Call Number: Stacks F5.B87 vol.2 (and 1 more)

A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry / by Samuel Adams Drake.

xvi, 477 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1906, c1901.

Creators: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905.

GUSN: 151810

Call Number: Stacks F4.6.D7

New Englands prospect. A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. By William Wood.

x p., 4 l., 103, [6] p. front. (double map) 22 x 17 1/2 cm.

Date: 1634. 1898?]

Creators: Wood, William, fl. 1629-1635. Boynton, E. Moody (Eben Moody), b. 1840.

GUSN: 151811

Call Number: Stacks F67.W9 1898

Home ballads, by Bayard Taylor.

61 p. incl. front., illus., 13 pl. 23 cm.

Date: 1882.

Creators: Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878.

GUSN: 151812

Call Number: Stacks PS2986.H5 1882

The old meeting house and vacation papers, humorous and other, by Rev. A. M. Colton. Collected for publcation by his brother G. Q. Colton.

298 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.

Date: 1890.

Creators: Colton, Aaron Merrick, 1809-1895. Colton, Gardner Quincy, 1814-1898.

GUSN: 151813

Call Number: Stacks PS1359.C635

Historic Connecticut; illus. with photographs by Samuel Chamberlain and drawings by the author.

xvi, 343 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: c1934.

Creators: Allis, Marguerite, 1887-1958.

GUSN: 151814

Call Number: Stacks F97.A463

The history of Connecticut, from the first settlement of the colony to the adoption of the present constitution, by G. H. Hollister.

2 v. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Hollister, G. H. (Gideon Hiram), 1817-1881.

GUSN: 151815

Call Number: Stacks F94.H7 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Colonial days & ways as gathered from family papers, by Helen Evertson Smith ... with decorations by T. Guernsey Moore.

1 p. ¾., viii, [2], 376 p. front. 22 cm.

Date: 1901, 1900.

Creators: Smith, Helen Evertson.

GUSN: 151816

Call Number: Stacks E162.S64

Summer cottages in the White Mountains : the architecture of leisure and recreation, 1870 to 1930 / Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

xxii, 294 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939-

GUSN: 151817

Call Number: Stacks NA7575.T65 2000 (and 1 more)

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