Historic New England

Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture, in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

[8], ii, 40 p., LXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 47 cm. (fol.)

Date: 1738.

Creators: Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.

GUSN: 151109

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2699.G52 1738

Rural architecture in the Chinese taste : being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen : also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected / the whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Jnn. Halfpenny ...

4 pt. in 1 v. : 64 pl. (part fold.)

Date: 1755.

Creators: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.

GUSN: 151110

Call Number: Rare Browne NA8450.H17

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)

A sure guide to builders or, the principles ... of architecture ... made easy for the use of workmen ... : to which is added, and appendix wherein the ... Acts of Parliament ... relating to builders ... are explained ...

[16], 179 p. : plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1729.

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

GUSN: 151122

Call Number: Stacks NA961.L36 1729

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

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