Historic New England

Ancient Rome in the light of recent discoveries / by Rodolfo Lanciani ... With one hundred illustrations.

xxix, 329 p. : front., ill., map, plans ; 24 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929.

GUSN: 150997

Call Number: Rare Browne DG63.L24

Pagan and Christian Rome, by Rodolfo Lanciani ...

ix, 361, [7], [363]-374 p. front., illus., plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929.

GUSN: 150998

Call Number: Rare Browne DG809.L24

Rudiments of ancient architecture, containing an historic account of the five orders, with their proportions, and examples of each from antiques; also extracts from Vitruvius, Pliny, &c. relative to the buildings of the ancients. With a dictionary of terms. Illustrated with eleven plates.

xvi 117 p. 11 plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1794.

GUSN: 150999

Call Number: Rare NA260.R8 1794

The seats of the nobility and gentry, in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views, engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists. With descriptions of each view.

[172] p. LXXXIV pl. 21 x 28 cm.

Date: 1779.

Creators: Watts, William, 1752-1851.

GUSN: 151000

Call Number: Rare Browne DA660.W33

Essays of the London Architectural Society.

xii, 139 p., 4 ¾. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1808.

Creators: Taylor, J. London Architectural Society.

GUSN: 151001

Call Number: Rare NA961.L66 1808

A history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800, by Reginald Blomfield ... with drawings by the author and other illustrations ...

2 v. illus., plates, plans. 29 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942.

GUSN: 151002

Call Number: Rare Browne NA540.B6 vol.1 (and 1 more)

An analysis of Gothick architecture: illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice. By Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon.

2 v. illus., plates. 33 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877. Brandon, Joshua Arthur, 1822-1847.

GUSN: 151003

Call Number: Rare Browne NA480.B8 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Parish churches; being perspective views of English ecclesiastical structures: accompanied by plans drawn to a uniform scale, and letter-press descriptions / by Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon.

2 v. in 1 : plates, plans ; 28 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877. Brandon, Joshua Arthur, 1822-1847.

GUSN: 151004

Call Number: Rare Browne NA5463.B8 1851 vol.1-2

Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England: embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture; also eighty-six plates of plans, sections, elevations, and views, with historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice and subject; an alphabetical list of architects of the Middle Ages and chronological lists of ancient churches; sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc. A dictionary of architectural terms, and copious indexes, by John Britton.

xviii, 223, lxiv p. 86 plates. 30 cm.

Date: 1835.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857.

GUSN: 151005

Call Number: Rare NA360.B75 vol.5

Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England : embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture : also eighty-six plates of plans, sections, elevations, and views, with historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice and subject; an alphabetical list of architects of the Middle Ages and chronological lists of ancient churches; sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc. : a dictionary of architectural terms, and copious indexes / by John Britton.

xvi, 260 p., [86] leaves of plates, lxiv p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1826.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857.

GUSN: 151006

Call Number: Rare NA5461.B7c vol.5

A history of the Gothic revival; an attempt to show how the taste for mediµval architecture, which lingered in England during the two last centuries, has since been encouraged and developed, by Charles L. Eastlake.

xvi, 427 p. front., illus., 35 pl. 24 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1836-1906.

GUSN: 151007

Call Number: Rare NA610.E2

Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II. to Henry VIII. With numerous illustrations of existing remains, from original drawings. By the editor of "The glossary of architecture".

2 v. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1859.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 151008

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T92 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A new display of the beauties of England : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ...

2 v. : plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1776.

GUSN: 151009

Call Number: Rare DA620.N53 1776 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Elementi d'architettura civile : ridotti in compendio / dal Conte Nicolino de'Conti di Calepio.

95 p. : viiii engr. plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1784.

Creators: Conti di Calepio, Nicolino de, conte.

GUSN: 151010

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.C3 1784

An attempt to determine the exact character of Elizabethan architecture : illustrated by parallels of Dorton house, Hatfield, Longleate, and Wollaton, in England; and the Palazzo della Cancellaria, at Rome. By James Hakewill ...

20, [2] p., 1 l. : ill., plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1835.

Creators: Hakewill, James, 1778-1843

GUSN: 151011

Call Number: Rare NA625.H3

Jones' views of the seats, mansions, castles, etc. of nobleman and gentlemen in England.

v. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1829]

Creators: Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847.

GUSN: 151012

Call Number: Rare DA660.N36 1829

Inigo Jones and Wren : or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England / by W. J. Loftie.

xvi, 284 p. : ill., plates ; 26 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911.

GUSN: 151013

Call Number: Rare Browne NA997.J7 L8

Development & character of Gothic architecture, by Charles Herbert Moore ...

xix, 333 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1890.

Creators: Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930.

GUSN: 151014

Call Number: Rare Browne NA440.M8

Examples of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. By A. Pugin. The literary part by E.J. Wilson.

3v. illus., plates (1 col., part fold.) plans (part double) 31 cm.

Date: 1838-39.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852. Wilson, Edward James, 1787-1854.

GUSN: 151015

Call Number: Rare Browne NA445.P8 1838 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Specimens of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large ... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. / By A. Pugin....The literary part by E. J. Willson.

2 v. : 112 plates. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1825.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854.

GUSN: 151016

Call Number: Rare NA445.P8 1825 vol.1

Examples of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large ... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. By A. Pugin and A. W. Pugin, architects, the literary part by E. J. Willson.

3 v. fronts., illus., 214 pl. (1 col., 5 double, incl. plans) 31 x 26 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852. Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854. Walker, T. L. (Thomas Larkin)

GUSN: 151017

Call Number: Rare NA445.P8 1850 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I. to Richard II., with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings, by the editor of "The glossary of architecture."

v, [10], 352 p. front., illus., plates, plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 151018

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T91

Some account of domestic architecture in England : from the conquest to the end of the thirteenth century / by T. Hudson Turner.

xxxii, 287 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Turner, Thomas Hudson, 1815-1852.

GUSN: 151019

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T91 1851 vol.1

Cottage and villa architecture : two hundred designs / by Thomas U. Walter and J. Jay Smith.

4 v. : plates, plans ; 33 x 27 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887. Smith, John Jay, 1798-1881.

GUSN: 151020

Call Number: Rare NA7600.W35 1846 vol.1 (and 3 more)

Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views : or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century: exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs / from original drawings by Mr. Thomas H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical, and critical illustrations [by John Britton]

vi, [168] p. : 88 plates ; 28 cm.

Date: 1829.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857. Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) illus.

GUSN: 151021

Call Number: Rare DA890.E3 B8 1829

Wallace Nutting's biography / illustrated by six photographs.

vii, 295 p. : plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: [c1936]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941

GUSN: 150872

Call Number: Stacks CT275.N787 A3

Rebecca Nurse : saint but witch victim / by Charles Sutherland Tapley.

xiii, 105 p. : front. (port.) plates ; 20 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Tapley, Charles Sutherland, 1899-

GUSN: 150873

Call Number: Stacks BF1576.T23

Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane ...

1 p. l. : xxxviii plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1797.

Creators: Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.

GUSN: 150874

Call Number: Rare NA2707.S63 D47 1797

A collection of designs in architecture : containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... likewise some screens and pavilions ... / by Abraham Swan, architect ...

2 v. : 120 plates ; 42 cm.

Date: 1757.

Creators: Swan, Abraham.

GUSN: 150875

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7120.S93 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Original designs in architecture / by William Thomas ... consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio; which contain plans, elevations, sections, ceilings and chimney pieces, for villas and town houses; designs for temples, grottos, sepulchres, bridges, &c. in the most approved taste. To which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs.

12 p. : XXVII plates ; 54 cm.

Date: 1783.

Creators: Thomas, William, d. 1800 Mèuller, Tobias, fl. 1765-1790. Malpas, E., ill. Roberts, James, 1724 or 5-1799.

GUSN: 150876

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2620.T86 1783

The town and country builder's assistant ... : explaining short and easy rules ... / for drawing and working, the five orders of columns entire: or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's and arcades. Together with a variety of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pedements ... The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 60 folio copper-plates. By a lover of architect.

12+ p. : front., LX plates ; 32 cm.

Date: [1786]

Creators: Norman, John, 1748?-1817.

GUSN: 150877

Call Number: Rare NA2517.N84

A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations / from original designs by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

122 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1756.

Creators: Ware, Isaac, d. 1766. Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.

GUSN: 150878

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2517.W26

The sanitary condition of city and country dwelling houses / by George E. Waring, jr. ...

145 p. : ill. ; 16 cm..

Date: 1877.

Creators: Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.

GUSN: 150879

Call Number: Rare TD905.W28

Dictionnaire de l'ameublement et de la dâecoration depuis le XIIIe siáecle jusqu'áa nos jours / par Henry Havard.

4 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ; 33 cm.

Date: [1894?]

Creators: Havard, Henry, 1838-1921.

GUSN: 150880

Call Number: Rare Browne NK30.H4 1890z vol.1 (and 3 more)

Art in the house : historical, critical, and aesthetical studies on the decoration and furnishing of the dwelling / by Jakob von Falke ...

[2], [iii]-xxx, 356 p. : ill., LX pl. (part col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Falke, Jacob von, 1825-1897. Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886, tr.

GUSN: 150881

Call Number: Rare NK2110.F32

Pugin's Gothic furniture.

25 plates ; 30 cm.

Date: [182-?]

Creators: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.

GUSN: 150882

Call Number: Rare NK2542.P8 1820

Dekorative vorbilderj.

60 leaves of plates ; 30 cm.

Date: 1908.

GUSN: 150883

Call Number: Rare NK1160.D34 1908 vol.19 (and 2 more)

Modern decorative designs : coloured designs and sketches / by contemporary artists ; selected from "Dekorative Vorbilder."

1 portfolio (113 plates) : chiefly col. ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [191-?]

GUSN: 150884

Call Number: Rare NK1450.M63 (and 4 more)

The decoration of houses / by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr.

4p.¾., vii-xxii [1]-204p., 2¾. : ill. ; 22.4 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Codman, Ogden.

GUSN: 150885

Call Number: Rare NK2110.W5 1897

Characteristics of old furniture : styles in England 1600-1800 / by H. P. Benn and W. C. Baldock.

79 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 19--?]

Creators: Benn, H. P. (H. Pringuer) Baldock, W. C.

GUSN: 150886

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.B4

The decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries, by Francis Lenygon.

xii, 215 p. illus. 35 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Lenygon, Francis, 1877-1943.

GUSN: 150887

Call Number: Rare NK2043.L6 1909

Specimens of ancient furniture drawn from existing authorities by Henry Shaw ... with descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick ...

2 p. l., 57 p. lxxiv pl. (partly col.) 29 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir, 1783-1848. Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873.

GUSN: 150888

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.M4

Costume of the ancients.

2 v. 321 plates 25 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831.

GUSN: 150889

Call Number: Rare GT545.H6 1841 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements; also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various ... substances employed in these arts. With an appendix ... / by an experienced dyer. Assisted by several scientific gentlemen ...

xxi, 704 p. : X plates, diagrs. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Parnell, Edward A. (Edward Andrew)

GUSN: 150890

Call Number: Rare TP893.P25

My crochet sampler / by Miss Lambert.

160 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1847.

Creators: Lambert, Miss (F.)

GUSN: 150891

Call Number: Rare TT820.L36 1847

The practical book of oriental rugs.

359 p. : ill., plates (part col.) fold. map, fold. chart ; 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Lewis, G. Griffin (George Griffin), b. 1865.

GUSN: 150892

Call Number: Rare NK2808.L65 1911

Treatise on clock and watch making : theoretical and practical / by Thomas Reid.

viii, 476 p., 20 ¾. of plates : ill., tables ; 25 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Reid, Thomas.

GUSN: 150893

Call Number: Rare TS545.R35 1832

"What shall we do with our walls?" [By] Clarence Cook.

1 p. ¾., 35 p. col. front., col. plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Cook, Clarence Chatham, 1818-1900. Warren, Fuller & Lange, New York.

GUSN: 150894

Call Number: Rare NK3395.C6 1881

Le pitture antiche del sepolcro de Nasonii nella Via Flaminia / disegnate ed intagliate alla similitudine degli antichi originali da Pietro Santi Bartoli ; descritte & illustrate da Gio. Pietro Bellori.

16, 35-50, 65-76 p., XXXV leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (etchings) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Date: [1---?]

Creators: Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635-1700. Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1615?-1696.

GUSN: 150895

Call Number: Rare Browne ND2575.B38

Art in northern Italy, by Corrado Ricci.

vii, 372 p., 1 ¾. col. front., illus., col. plates. 19 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934.

GUSN: 150896

Call Number: Rare Browne N6911.R45

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