Historic New England

The hardwood finisher :with rules and directions for finishing in natural colors and in antique, mahogany, cherry, birch, walnut, oak, ash, redwood, sycamore, pine, and all other domestic woods : also, miscellaneous rules for filling, staining, varnishing, polishing, dyeing, gilding, and bronzing; together with hints on the preparation of woodwork for the finisher /compiled and edited by Fred T. Hodgson.

109 p.

Date: c1892.

Creators: Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919.

GUSN: 252412

Call Number: Perry TT325.H37 1892

The arts connected with building :lectures on craftsmanship and design delivered at Carpenters Hall, London Wall, for the worshipful Company of Carpenters /by R. W. Schultz ... [et al.] ; edited by T. Raffles Davison.

xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: [1909?]

Creators: Schultz, Robert Weir, 1860-1951. Davison, T. Raffles (Thomas Raffles), 1853-1937.

GUSN: 252413

Call Number: Perry NA2540.A78 1909

The principles of harmony and contrast of colours, and their applications to the arts /by M.E. Chevreul ; translated by Charles Martel.

xlvi, 465 p. : ill.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889.

GUSN: 252414

Call Number: Perry N7432.7.C5713 1908

Dutch pottery and porcelain /by W. Pitcairn Knowles.

xv, 122 p., 54 plates : ill.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Knowles, W. Pitcairn.

GUSN: 252415

Call Number: Perry NK4107.K66 1900z

Villas of Florence and Tuscany;by Harold Donaldson Eberlein ; with a frontispiece in colour and 299 illustrations mostly from photographs by the author.

411 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1925, c1922.

Creators: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson.

GUSN: 252416

Call Number: Perry NA7594.E3 1925

Catalogue of the architectural exhibition, Boston Architectural Club and Boston Society of Architects :St. Botolph Club, 2 Newbury Street, from May 22nd to June 3rd, 1899.

240 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Boston Architectural Club. Boston Society of Architects.

GUSN: 252417

Call Number: Perry NA2440.B67 C38 1899 c.1 (and 1 more)

Recueil d'architecture :dessiné et mesuré en Italie, dans les années 1791, 92 et 93À /par F. L. Schuelt, architecte à Nantes ; contenant un choix de maisons, fabriques, basiliques, portes, croisées, sarcophages, fontaines, décorations de jardins et divers fragments d'architecture, etc, etc. ; ouvrage composé de soixante-douze, de planches grand in-folio.

8 p., 72 leaves of plates ; 50 cm.

Date: 1821.

Creators: Séheult, François Léonard, 1771-1840.

GUSN: 252418

Call Number: Perry NA1116.S44 1821

The architecture, decoration, and furniture, of Robert & James Adam;selected from "Works in architecture," published 1778-1822, and photolithographed from the originals.

xxvi pl. 42 x 36 cm.

Date: 1880.

Creators: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792. Adam, James, d. 1794, joint author.

GUSN: 252419

Call Number: Perry NA997.A4 A42 1880

The complete book of flowers and plants for interior decoration /Esther Wheeler and Anabel Combs Lasker, assisted by Barbara Baer. Drawings by Janet Porto.

190 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: [c1957]

Creators: Wheeler, Esther. Lasker, Anabel Combs.

GUSN: 251704

Call Number: Stacks SB449.W49 1957

Houses of the founding fathers /by Hugh Howard ; original photography by Roger Straus III.

xiii, 354 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Howard, Hugh, 1952- Straus, Roger.

GUSN: 251705

Call Number: Stacks E176.H866 2007

The soul of Vermont /Richard W. Brown.

144 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Brown, Richard, 1945-

GUSN: 251706

Call Number: Stacks F50.B75 2001

Maynard, Massachusetts :a house in the village /Jan Voogd.

127 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Voogd, Jan.

GUSN: 251707

Call Number: Stacks F74.M46 V66 2007

Modern architecture :the architecture of democracy /by Vincent Scully, Jr.-.

ix, 158 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: [1974, reprinted 1975]

Creators: Scully, 1920-

GUSN: 251708

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA680.S395 1974

Strawbery Banke:a seaport museum 400 years in the making /J. Dennis Robinson.

xxi, 393 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Robinson, J. Dennis.

GUSN: 251709

Call Number: Coll. F31.5.R63 2007 c. 2 (and 1 more)

The catalogue of American catalogues;how to buy practically everything by mail in America. Maria Elena De La Iglesia

272 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: De La Iglesia, Maria Elena.

GUSN: 251710

Call Number: 85M Stacks HF5466.D44 1973

Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England;with many interpretations, etc.,by R.A. Douglas-Lithgow.

xxi, [1], 400 p. front. (port.) 23 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Douglas-Lithgow, R. A. (Robert Alexander), 1846-1917.

GUSN: 251711

Call Number: Stacks F2.D72 1909

Illustrated homes :a series of papers describing real houses and real people /by E.C. Gardner.

xi, 287 p. : ill., plans ; 18 cm.

Date: 1875.

Creators: Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence), 1836-1915.

GUSN: 251712

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7120.G35 1875

King's handbook of the United States.Planned and ed. by Moses King. Text by M.F. Sweetser. Over twenty-six hundred illustrations;fifty-one colored maps.

939 p. incl. illus., ports., maps. 21 cm.

Date: c1891.

Creators: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897. King, Moses, 1853-1909, ed.

GUSN: 251713

Call Number: Stacks E158.S98 1891

Divinity and dust :a history of Townsend, Massachusetts /by Richard N. Smith.

409 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Smith, Richard N.

GUSN: 251714

Call Number: Stacks F74.T75 S6 1978

The illustrated encyclopedia of woodworking handtools, instruments, & devices :containing a full description of the tools used by carpenters, joiners, and cabinet makers, with many examples of tools used by other woodworkers such as, woodsmen, sawyers, coach makers, wheelwrights, shipwrights, wainwrights, coopers, turners, pattern makers, and whittlers /written and illustrated by Graham Blackburn.

238 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: [1974]

Creators: Blackburn, Graham, 1940-

GUSN: 251715

Call Number: Coll. TT186.B52

The history of Nantucket,county, island, and town,including genealogies of first settlers, by Alexander Starbuck.

871 p. incl. front., illus., tables. 4 fold. maps. 24 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: Starbuck, Alexander, 1841-1925.

GUSN: 251716

Call Number: Stacks F72.N2 S7 1924

Landscape gardening :notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting, laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns, deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, the hardy border-bedding plants, rockwork, etc. /by Samuel Parsons, jr.

xxii, 329 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1891.

Creators: Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923.

GUSN: 251717

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB472.P3 1891

The gardens of England in the northern counties,ed. by Charles Holme.

x, xxxvii p. CXXXVI pl. (8 col.) on 72 l. 30 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Holme, Charles, 1848-1923, ed.

GUSN: 251718

Call Number: Stacks SB466.G7 H7 1911 (and 1 more)

The gardens of England in the southern & western counties,ed. by Charles Holme.

ix, xxxvii p. 136 pl. (incl. front., part col.) 29 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Holme, Charles, 1848-1923, ed.

GUSN: 251719

Call Number: Stacks SB466.G7 H73 1907

Wool and cotton in all forms from yarn to fabric.

177 p. illus. (some fold.), facsim. 30 cm.

Date: [c1921]

Creators: William Whitman & Company.

GUSN: 251720

Call Number: Stacks TS1425.W55 1921

The homes and habits of Blandford /by Sumner Gilbert Wood.

xi, 215 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1985.

Creators: Wood, Sumner Gilbert, 1855-1942.

GUSN: 251858

Call Number: Stacks F74.B45 W77 1985

The gavel and the book :the Simsbury town meeting, 1670-1986 /by Evan W. Woollacott.

xiv, 567 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1987.

Creators: Woollacott, Evan W. 1929- Simsbury Historical Society (Simsbury, Conn.)

GUSN: 251859

Call Number: Stacks F104.S6 W66 1987

The Showroom handbook for wallpaper installations /by Robert M. Kelly, cp.

75 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1926.

Creators: Kelly, Robert M.

GUSN: 251860

Call Number: Coll. TH8441.K45 1996

Experience Mayhew's Indian converts :a cultural edition /edited and with an introduction by Laura Arnold Leibman.

xvi, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Mayhew, Experience, 1673-1758. Leibman, Laura Arnold. Mayhew, Experience, 1673-1758. Indian converts.

GUSN: 251861

Call Number: Stacks E78.M4 M64 2008

The works :the industrial architecture of the United States /by Betsy Hunter Bradley.

347 p. : ill.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Bradley, Betsy H.

GUSN: 251862

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA6402.B73 1998

Cradle of violence :how Boston's waterfront mobs ignited the American Revolution /Russell Bourne.

xiii, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Bourne, Russell.

GUSN: 251863

Call Number: Stacks E215.B68 2006

Historic Quabbin hikes /by J.R. Green.

131 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: c1994

Creators: Greene, J. R. (John R.)

GUSN: 251864

Call Number: Stacks F72.S94 G744 1994

Alfred Stieglitz and the equivalent :reinventing the nature of photography : exhibition and catalogue /prepared by Daniell Cornell.

37 p. : ill. ; 19 x 22 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Cornell, Daniell. Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 251865

Call Number: Stacks TR647.S84 1999

Benjamin Vaughan, 1751-1835 /by Mary Vaughan Marvin.

ii, 150 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1979

Creators: Marvin, Mary Vaughan.

GUSN: 251866

Call Number: Stacks DA506.V38 M37 1979

Chester revisited :a history in honor of the town's 275th anniversary /Richard Holmes.

685 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Holmes, Richard, 1945-

GUSN: 251867

Call Number: Stacks F44.C523 H6 1998

A guide to the makers of American wooden planes /Emil and Martyl Pollak.

477 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Pollak, Emil. Pollak, Martyl. Elliott, Thomas (Thomas L.) Pollak, Emil. Guide to American wooden planes and their makers.

GUSN: 251868

Call Number: Stacks TJ1201.P55 P64 2001

The Beinecke Library of Yale University /edited by Stephen Parks ; architectural photography by Richard Cheek ; dedication photographgy by Ezra Stoller ; collection photography by Stan Godlewski ; with contributions by Robert G. Babcock ... [et al.].

237 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Parks, Stephen. Babcock, Robert Gary, 1958- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

GUSN: 251869

Call Number: Stacks Z733.B4 B45 2003

Yale's Confederates :a biographical dictionary /Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.

xxiv, 232 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs.

GUSN: 251870

Call Number: Stacks E467.H887 2008

Beyond the farm :national ambitions in rural New England /J.M. Opal.

xiv, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Opal, J. M.

GUSN: 251871

Call Number: Stacks F8.O63 2008

Get your house right :architectural elements to use & avoid /Marianne Cusato & Ben Pentreath ; with Richard Sammons & Leon Crier ; foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales ; in association with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America.

xiv, 257 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., "In this comprehensive and authoratative guide, Marianne Cusato explains why so many of today's traditional-style buildings miss the mark; describes the essential elements of a house, how they work together, and how to use them appropriately; and shows how to...

Date: c2007.

Creators: Cusato, Marianne. Pentreath, Ben. Sammons, Richard Franklin. Crier, Leon. Institute of Classical Architecture.

GUSN: 251872

Call Number: Stacks NA7110.C87 2007

The steeples of old New England :how the Yankees reached for heaven /by Kirk Shivell.

359 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Shivell, Kirk.

GUSN: 251873

Call Number: Stacks NA2930.S54 1998

Social gardens :outdoor spaces for living and entertaining /Charlotte M. Frieze ; photographs by Peter C. Jones.

223 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Frieze, Charlotte M. Jones, Peter C.

GUSN: 251874

Call Number: Stacks SB473.F835 1988

Gertrude Jekyll :a vision of garden and wood /Judith B. Tankard, Michael R. Van Valkenburgh ; foreword by Jane Brown.

x, 148 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Tankard, Judith B. Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932. Van Valkenburgh, Michael.

GUSN: 251875

Call Number: Stacks SB466.G8 M868 1989

In your own style :the art of creating wonderful rooms /by Linda Chase and Laura Cerwinske ; photographs by David Phelps.

191 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Chase, Linda. Cerwinske, Laura. Phelps, David.

GUSN: 251876

Call Number: Stacks NK2004.C48 1994

An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture.

xxiii, 331 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1891.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 251913

Call Number: Stacks N440.P3 1891

The manor houses of England,by P.H. Ditchfield. Illustrated by Sydney R. Jones.

v, 210 p. illus. (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930. Jones, Sydney R. (Sydney Robert), 1881- ill.

GUSN: 251914

Call Number: Stacks NA7620.D5 1910

A Sense of line :American modernist works on paper /[editor, Sheila Schwartz].

80 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Schwartz, Sheila. Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

GUSN: 251915

Call Number: Stacks N6512.5.M63 S46 1989

Sea-captains' houses and rose-covered cottages :the architectural heritage of Nantucket Island /Margaret Moore Booker, Rose Gonnella, and Patricia Egan Butler ; principle photography by Jordi Cabrâe.

ix, 213 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Booker, Margaret Moore. Gonnella, Rose. Butler, Patricia Egan.

GUSN: 251916

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.M42 N363 2003

"The beauty of life" :William Morris & the art of design /edited by Diane Waggoner.

176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Waggoner, Diane. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

GUSN: 251917

Call Number: Stacks NK942.M8 B43 2003

Interiors :an introduction /Karla J. Nielson, David A. Taylor.

xvii, 484 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Date: c2002.

Creators: Nielson, Karla J. Taylor, David A.

GUSN: 251918

Call Number: Stacks NK2115.N45 2002

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