Historic New England

The art of dyeing and staining marble, artificial stone, bone, horn, ivory and wood, and of imitating all sorts of wood;a practical handbook for the use of joiners, turners, manufacturers of fancy goods, stick and umbrella makers, comb makers, etc.,by D. H. Soxhlet. Tr. from the German by Arthur Morris and Herbert Robson.

viii, 168, 32 p. 20 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Soxhlet, V. H. Robson, Herbert. Morris, Arthur.

GUSN: 252399

Call Number: Perry TT370.S7 1902

Architectural drawing /by R. Phene Spiers ; preface to the American ed. by William R. Ware ...

x, 67 p., 25 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: [c1888]

Creators: Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916 Ware, William R.

GUSN: 252400

Call Number: Perry NA2700.S68 1888

The minor ecclesiastical, domestic, and garden architecture of southern Spain;photographs and drawings by Austin Whittlesey, with a preface by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.

xi, 107 plates front. 32 cm.

Date: [c1917]

Creators: Whittlesey, Austin.

GUSN: 252401

Call Number: Perry NA1301.W5 1917

Light and shade and their applications,by M. Luckiesh ... 135 illustrations--10 tables ...

xii, 265 p. incl. illus., tables, diagrs. front. 24 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Luckiesh, Matthew, b. 1883.

GUSN: 252402

Call Number: Perry NC755.L8 1916

The Spanish house for America,its design, furnishing, and garden,by Rexford Newcomb ... with a frontispiece in colour and 97 plates of Spanish houses and their details.

164 p. col. front., illus. (incl. plans) 27 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Newcomb, Rexford, 1886-1968.

GUSN: 252403

Call Number: Perry NA7205.N4 1927

Low cost suburban homes;a book of suggestions for the man with the moderate purse,ed. by Richardson Wright.

3 p. Á., 120 p. front., illus. (incl. plans) 26 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961, ed.

GUSN: 252404

Call Number: Perry NA7120.W7 1916

Domestic architecture,by L. Eugene Robinson.

xiii, 378 p. illus. (incl. plan., map) 20 cm.

Date: 1917.

Creators: Robinson, L. Eugene.

GUSN: 252405

Call Number: Perry NA7120.R6 1917

Measured drawings of old oak English furniture,also of some remains of architectural woodwork, plasterwork, metalwork, glazing, etc.,by John Weymouth Hurrell.

110 pl. 38 x 29 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Hurrell, John Weymouth.

GUSN: 252406

Call Number: Perry NK2529.H8 1902

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

xxiii, 465 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.

Date: 1887.

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

GUSN: 252407

Call Number: Perry N7342.7.C5713 1887

Regional architecture of the West of England,by A.E. Richardson ... and C. Lovett Gill.

xx, 188 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: Richardson, A. E. Sir, (Albert Edward), 1880-1964. Gill, C. Lovett (Charles Lovett), b. 1880, joint author.

GUSN: 252408

Call Number: Perry NA964.R53 1924

Decorative elements in architecture;random observations on the eternal fitness of things from a decorative point of view[by] William Francklyn Paris.

152 p. XCIX pl. (incl. front.) 25 cm.

Date: 1917.

Creators: Paris, William Francklyn, 1871-1954.

GUSN: 252409

Call Number: Perry NK2110.P2 1917

The English home,by Banister Flight Fletcher ... and Herbert Phillips Fletcher; with an introduction by His Grace the Duke of Argyll, kt., with 336 illustrations.

xxii, 392 p. illus., plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953. Fletcher, H. Phillips (Herbert Phillips), 1872-1916, joint author.

GUSN: 252410

Call Number: Perry NA7328.F55 1910

A history of architecture in London,arranged to illustrate the course of architecture in England until 1800, with a sketch of the preceding European styles,by Walter H. Godfrey ... with a preface by Philip Norman ... with 250 illustrations, 7 maps & descriptive guide to the buildings.

xiii, 390 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: [1911]

Creators: Godfrey, Walter Hindes, 1881-

GUSN: 252411

Call Number: Perry NA970.G63 1911

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 maker's hand :American studio furniture, 1940-1990 /Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Gerald W.R. Ward, and Kelly H. L'Ecuyer ; with the assistance of Pat Warner.

168 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., "The Maker's Hand is one of the first books about the studio furniture movement, and no doubt the most authoritive. Written by two leading experts in the field, it details the history and development of studio furniture, from its origins in post-World War II America through i...

Date: c2003.

Creators: Cooke, Edward S. Ward, Gerald W. R. L'Ecuyer, Kelly H. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 297634

Call Number: Coll. NK2408.C58 2003

American chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale,by John T. Kirk.

208 pages illustrations 32 cm

Date: 1972.

Creators: Kirk, John T.

GUSN: 297635

Call Number: Coll. NK2715.K5 1972

Portfolio of photographs of the World's Fair.

16 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 29 x 35 cm.

Date: 1893-1894.

GUSN: 302360

Call Number: Ovr. T500 .C1 P67

In plain sight :discovering the furniture of Nathaniel Gould /Kemble Widmer and Joyce King ; with essays by Glenn Adamson, Daniel Finamore, Dean Lahikainen and Elisabeth Garrett Widmer.

pages cm

Creators: Widmer, Kemble, author. Hidden in plain sight. Gould, Nathaniel, 1731-1781. Furniture.

GUSN: 303518

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.G68 A4 2014 c.1 (and 2 more)

Culinary ephemera :an illustrated history /William Woys Weaver.

xiii, 299 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm., "This collection, a trove of designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels,...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Weaver, William Woys, 1947-

GUSN: 303561

Call Number: 85M Stacks GT2853.U5 W43 2010

Charles Magnus, lithographer :illustrating America's past, 1850-1900 /by E. Richard McKinstry.

xiii, 185 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Creators: McKinstry, E. Richard. Magnus, Charles.

GUSN: 303562

Call Number: Stacks NE2303.7.M158 2013

Life on a whaler,or Antarctic adventures in the Isle of Desolation,by Nathaniel W. Taylor, M.D., 1858; illustrated by William T. Peters of the U.S. Japan expedition. Narrative of a whaling voyage from New London, Connecticut, August 18, 1851, to June 4, 1853. Edited by Howard Palmer ...

2 preliminary leaves, xix, 208 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including maps) plates (1 double) portrait 23 cm

Date: 1929.

Creators: Taylor, Nathaniel William, 1823-1875. Palmer, Howard, 1883- editor.

GUSN: 303563

Call Number: Stacks G545.T3

Mario Buatta :fifty years of American interior decoration /Mario Buatta with Emily Evans Eerdmans ; foreword by Paige Rense.

429 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm, "The eagerly anticipated first monograph to celebrate the fifty-years-and-counting career of decorating legend Mario Buatta. Influenced by the understated elegance of Colefax and Fowler and the doyenne of exuberant American decor, Sister Parish, Buatt...

Creators: Buatta, Mario, author. Eerdmans, Emily, author. Rense, Paige, writer of added commentary.

GUSN: 303564

Call Number: Coll. NK2004.3.B83 A4 2013

Master carver :from Germany's passion play village to America's finest sanctuaries : Johannes Kirchmayer, 1860-1930 /[F. Shirley Prouty ; foreword by Gerald W. R. Ward].

xi, 124 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Prouty, F. Shirley (Florence Shirley) Ward, Gerald W. R.

GUSN: 303565

Call Number: Stacks NK9798.K57 P76 2007 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Chesapeake house :architectural investigation by Colonial Williamsburg /edited by Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury.

xi, 471 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of...

Creators: Carson, Cary, editor of compilation. Lounsbury, Carl, editor of compilation. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,

GUSN: 303566

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.M32 C485 2013

The historic armories of Rhode Island /Howard F. Brown [and] Roberta Mudge Humble.

viii, 149 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Brown, Howard F. Humble, Roberta Mudge.

GUSN: 303567

Call Number: Stacks UF544.R45 B7 2000

The race underground :Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway /Doug Most.

viii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers--Henry M...

Creators: Most, Doug.

GUSN: 303568

Call Number: Stacks HE4491.B782 M67 2014

Newport revisited /Rob lewis and Ryan A. Young.

128 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Lewis, Rob. Young, Ryan A.

GUSN: 303569

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 L491 2001

"With éclat" :the Boston Athenaeum and the origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston /Hina Hirayama.

235 pages ; 27 cm

Creators: Hirayama, Hina, 1964-

GUSN: 303579

Call Number: Book Prize N521.A8 H57 2013 (and 1 more)

Curiosities of the craft :treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts collection /Aimee E. Newell, Hilary Anderson Stelling, Catherine Compton Swanson.

287 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: 2013.

Creators: Newell, Aimee E. Swanson, Catherine Compton. Stelling, Hilary Anderson.

GUSN: 303580

Call Number: Book Prize HS537.M45 N49 2013 (and 2 more)

Harper's new monthly magazine.

101 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24-28 cm.

Date: [1850-c1900]

Creators: Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919. John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 303581

Call Number: Stacks AP2.H3 v. XVI (and 2 more)

Luminaries of early West Barnstable :the stories of a Cape Cod village /James H. Ellis.

No description

Creators: Ellis, James H., 1932-

GUSN: 303582

Call Number: Stacks F74.W423 E45 2014

Prudence Crandall's legacy :the fight for equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education /Donald E. Williams Jr.

xiv, 450 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.

Creators: Williams, Donald E., author.

GUSN: 303583

Call Number: Stacks LA2317.C73 W55 2014

Seeing Gertrude Stein :five stories /Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer.

ix, 403 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm, Gertrude Stein is justly famous for her modernist writings and her patronage of vanguard painters (most notably Matisse and Picasso) in Paris before the First World War. This work is the companion book to an exhibition of the same name, ...

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Corn, Wanda M. Latimer, Tirza True. Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.) National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

GUSN: 303584

Call Number: Stacks PS3537.T323 Z56 2011

City water, city life :water and the infrastructure of ideas in urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago /Carl Smith.

xii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people wh...

Creators: Smith, Carl S., author.

GUSN: 303585

Call Number: 85M Stacks TD223.S64 2013

Boston beer :a history of brewing in the Hub /Norman Miller ; foreword by Kerry J. Byrne.

142 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm, "Explore the celebrated brewing history and beer culture of Boston"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Miller, Norman, 1974-

GUSN: 303586

Call Number: Stacks TP577.M56 2014

African American Connecticut explored /edited by Elizabeth J. Normen ; with Katherine J. Harris, Stacey K. Close, and Wm. Frank Mitchell.

422 pages : llustrations ; 27 cm.

Creators: Normen, Elizabeth J.

GUSN: 303587

Call Number: 85M Stacks E185.93.C7 A47 2013

Tobacco sheds :vanishing treasures in the Connecticut River Valley /Dale and Darcy Cahill.

112 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Creators: Cahill, Dale F., author. Cahill, Darcy, author.

GUSN: 303588

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.C15 2013

For kith and kin :the folk art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago /Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski.

120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 25 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. The detailed entries in this text serve as an introduction to an array of masterworks, from New England portraits to New Mexican ceramics and Oh...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Barter, Judith A., 1951- Obniski, Monica. Art Institute of Chicago.

GUSN: 303589

Call Number: Coll. NK805.A78 2012

The Boston Floating Hospital :how a Boston harbor barge changed the course of pediatric medicine : the first one hundred years /Lucie Prinz ; with Jacoba Van Schaik.

177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Prinz, Lucie, 1931- Van Schaik, Jacoba, author.

GUSN: 303590

Call Number: Stacks RJ28.B7 P75 2014

The Sol e Mar tragedy off Martha's Vineyard /Captain W. Russell Webster (U.S. Coast Guard, Ret.) & Elizabeth B. Webster ; foreword by Rear Admiral George Naccara, USCG (Ret.).

127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "On March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the Sol e Mar. When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cr...

Creators: Webster, W. Russell. Webster, Elizabeth B.

GUSN: 303591

Call Number: Stacks G530.S725 W43 2014

1775 :a good year for revolution /Kevin Phillips.

xxvi, 628 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, What if the year that has long been commemorated as America's defining moment was in fact, misleading? In this book the author, a historian punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. 1775 was th...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Phillips, Kevin, 1940-

GUSN: 303592

Call Number: Stacks E231.P55 2012

The mortal sea :fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail /W. Jeffrey Bolster.

xi, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In this account of this interdependency, the author, a historian and professi...

Date: 2012.

Creators: Bolster, W. Jeffrey.

GUSN: 303593

Call Number: 85M Stacks SH213.5.B65 2012

When America first met China :an exotic history of tea, drugs, and money in the Age of Sail /Eric Jay Dolin.

xviii, 394 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm, Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century se...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Dolin, Eric Jay.

GUSN: 303594

Call Number: Stacks HF3128.D65 2012

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