Historic New England

The American flower garden,by Neltje Blanchan [pseud.] planting lists by Leonard Barron; illustrated with one hundred full-page photographs.

xv, 368 p. col. front., 97 pl. (9 col.) 30 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918. Barron, Leonard, 1868-1938.

GUSN: 255139

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB453.D7 1909

Gothic forms applied to furniture,metal work and decoration for domestic purposesby B.J. Talbert ...

2 p.Á., 6, [2] p. 30 plates. 47 cm.

Date: 1867.

Creators: Talbert, Bruce J.

GUSN: 255140

Call Number: Rare NK1972.G6 T3 1867

Ornament in history :a collection of studies in the historical use of ornament in architecture, vol. I.

1 v. (loose-leaf) : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: [1985]

Creators: Kast, Lenna Tyler.

GUSN: 255141

Call Number: Stacks NA3321.O76 1985 v.1

Architectural decoration for interiors with composition ornaments for today from history, vol. II.

1 v. (loose-leaf) : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: [1985]

Creators: Kast, Lenna Tyler.

GUSN: 255142

Call Number: Stacks NA3321.O76 1985 v.2

Palliser's new cottage homes and details :containing nearly two hundred & fifty new & original designs in all the modern popular styles ...

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 36 cm.

Date: c1887.

Creators: Palliser, Palliser & Co.

GUSN: 255143

Call Number: Rare NA7127.P35 1887

The architectural instructor, containing a history of architecture from the earliest ages to the present time;illustrated with nearly 250 engravings of ancient, mediµval, and modern cities, temples, palaces, cathedrals, and monuments; also, the Greek and early Roman classic orders, their principles and beauties; with a large number of original designs of cottages, villas, and mansions, of different sizes, accompanied with practical observations on construction ... and further designs of churches, monuments, and public buildings; together with a glossary of architectural terms ... By Minard Lafever, architect.

526 p. CXII pl. (part col., incl. plans, diagrs.) 32 x 25 cm.

Date: 1856.

Creators: Lafever, Minard.

GUSN: 255145

Call Number: Stacks NA200.L25 1856

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's companion :comprising the rudiments and principles of cabinet-making and upholstery : with familiar instructions, illustrated examples, for attaining a proficiency in the art of drawing, as applicable to cabinet-work ... /by J. Stokes.

167 p., 5 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1860.

Creators: Stokes, J.

GUSN: 255146

Call Number: Stacks TT197.S8 1860

Cape Ann :a tourist guide /by Roger W. Babson ; and Foster H. Saville.

118 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Babson, Roger Ward, 1875-1967. Saville, Foster H. (Foster Harmon), 1874-1942.

GUSN: 255147

Call Number: Stacks F72.E7 B3 1936

Talks about plants, or, Early lessons in botany /by Mrs. Lankester ; with six coloured plates and twenty-six wood engravings.

252, 4, 32 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Lankester, Phebe, 1825-1900. Griffith and Farran.

GUSN: 255148

Call Number: Stacks QK49.L36 1879

The language of flowers /edited by Miss Ildrewe, with an introduction from Thomas Miller ; illustrated by colored plates, and numerous woodcuts, after Gustave Doré, Daubigny, Timms, and others.

216 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1865.

Creators: Ildrewe, Miss, ed.

GUSN: 255149

Call Number: Stacks SB91.A2 I36 1865

New England diaries, 1602-1800,a descriptive catalogue of diaries, orderly books and sea journals.

viii, 439 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: Forbes, Harriette Merrifield, 1856-1951, comp.

GUSN: 255150

Call Number: Stacks Z1251.E1 F6 1923

New England life in the 18th century:representative biographies from Sibley's Harvard graduates.

xxvii, 626 p. ports., maps (on lining papers) 24 cm.

Date: 1963.

Creators: Shipton, Clifford Kenyon, 1902-1973.

GUSN: 255151

Call Number: Stacks F3.S5 1963

Between Race and Ethnicity :Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 /Marilyn Halter.

xix, 213 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Halter, Marilyn.

GUSN: 255152

Call Number: Stacks E184.C24 H34 1993

History of the archdiocese of Boston in the various stages of its development, 1604 to 1943 /by Robert H. Lord, John E. Sexton [and] Edward T. Harrington, with a foreword by His Eminence William cardinal O'Connell, archbishop of Boston.

3 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1944.

Creators: Lord, Robert Howard, 1885-1954. Sexton, John E. Harrington, Edward T.

GUSN: 255153

Call Number: 85M Stacks BX1417.B6 L6 1944 v.1 (and 2 more)

The Trustees of donations for education in Liberia :a story of philanthropic endeavor 1850-1923 /by Gardner W. Allen.

vii, 132 p. : front., plates, ports., map ; 22 cm.

Date: 1923

Creators: Allen, Gardner Weld, 1856-1944.

GUSN: 255154

Call Number: Rare LC2808.L6 A56 1923

Scope of total architecture.

158 p. illus. 18 cm.

Date: [1962, c1955]

Creators: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.

GUSN: 255155

Call Number: Stacks NA680.G73 1962

Stair-building made easy.Being a full and clear description of the art of building the bodies, carriages and cases for all kinds of stairs and steps ...By Fred. T. Hodgson ...

viii, [9]-123 p. front., illus., diagrs. 19 cm.

Date: 1884.

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

GUSN: 255156

Call Number: Stacks TH5670.H68 1884

Little, Brown & Company :160 years of publishing.

1 v. (unpaged) : illus. incl. ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Little, Brown and Company.

GUSN: 255157

Call Number: Stacks Z473.L758 1997

Material suggested for use in the schools in observance of the tercentenary of Massachusetts Bay Colony and of the General Court and one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the constitution of the Commonwealth.

xiv, 222 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. music) plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: 1930]

Creators: Morse, Frank P. Massachusetts. Dept. of Education.

GUSN: 255158

Call Number: Stacks F67.M383 1930

The industrial and artistic technology of paint and varnish.By Alvah Horton Sabin.

vi, 372 p. front., illus., plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Sabin, Alvah Horton, 1851-1940.

GUSN: 255159

Call Number: Stacks TP935.S12 1904

Federal Rhode Island :the age of the China trade, 1790-1820 : lectures presented at the second annual Forum on Rhode Island History, January, 1976, Providence, R.I. /sponsored by the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Providence Preservation Society ; edited by Linda Lotridge Levin.

ix, 166 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Levin, Linda Lotridge, 1940- Rhode Island Historical Society. Providence Preservation Society. Forum on Rhode Island History (2nd : 1976 : Providence)

GUSN: 255160

Call Number: Stacks F83.F67 1976

A directory of British teapots /by Michael Berthoud & Richard Maskell.

xx, 364 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: [2006].

Creators: Berthoud, Michael. Maskell, Richard.

GUSN: 271217

Call Number: Coll. NK4695.T43 B47 2006

Women's work :embroidery in Colonial Boston /Pamela Parmal [and Mary Holingworth English ... et al.].

174 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 2012.

Creators: Parmal, Pamela A. English, Mary Hollingsworth, d. ca. 1694. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 271218

Call Number: Book Prize NK9212.P37 2012 c.1 (and 1 more)

John Smibert :colonial America's first portrait painter /Richard H. Saunders.

xii, 280 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Saunders, Richard H., 1949- Smibert, John, 1688-1751.

GUSN: 271219

Call Number: Coll. ND1329.S63 S28 1995

A window into collecting American folk art :the Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton.

162 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Emans, Charlotte M. Princeton University. Art Museum.

GUSN: 271220

Call Number: Coll. N714.P65 A75 1999

The White House :its historic furnishings and first families /by Betty C. Monkman ; principal photography by Bruce White.

320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm., With a fascinating text by the curator of the White House, this illustrated, ground breaking book is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the furnishings of the President's house, and the changing tastes of the first families.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Monkman, Betty C. White, Bruce, 1962-

GUSN: 271221

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.W37 M66 2000

American originals :selections from Reynolda House, Museum of American Art /essay by Charles C. Eldredge ; catalog by Barbara B. Millhouse with the assistance of Robert Workman.

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

Date: c1990.

Creators: Eldredge, Charles C. Millhouse, Barbara Babcock. Workman, Robert G. Reynolda House. American Federation of Arts. Center for the Fine Arts (Miami, Fla.)

GUSN: 271222

Call Number: Coll. ND205.A657 1990

Fabrics for historic buildings /Jane C. Nylander.

64 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938-

GUSN: 271223

Call Number: Coll. TS1767.N94 1977

All-Maine cooking /compiled and edited by Ruth Wiggin and Loana Shibles ; illustrated by Anna Parker.

187 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: c1967 (1991 printing).

Creators: Wiggin, Ruth. Shibles, Loana.

GUSN: 271224

Call Number: Coll. TX715.2.N48 A54 1974

Food-buying and meal-planning;edited by Miriam B. Reichl.

255 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: [1952]

Creators: Hallam, Barbara Halton.

GUSN: 271225

Call Number: Coll. TX355.H26 1952

Textile History Forum :proceedings of the Textile History Forum, July 7-8, 2000, Cooperstown, N.Y. /compilation by Jacqueline M. Atkins.

189 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Textile History Forum. Forum (2000 : Cooperstown, N.Y.)

GUSN: 271226

Call Number: Coll. TS1300.T49 P76 2000

Revelation and the life to come /edited with an introduction in two parts by the author of "The way: the nature and means of revelation."

v, 216 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Weir, John F. (John Ferguson), 1841-1926.

GUSN: 271227

Call Number: Coll. BR50.R48 1916

Windows on the past :four centuries of New England homes /Jane C. Nylander with Diane Viera ; color photographs by David Bohl ; foreword by Wendell Garrett ; introd. by Carl R. Nold.

[207] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938- Viera, Diane L. Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

GUSN: 271228

Call Number: Coll. F5.N95 2009 (and 4 more)

America's kitchens /Nancy Carlisle and Melinda Talbot Nasardinov, with Jennifer Pustz.

x, 197 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Carlisle, Nancy Camilla. Nasardinov, Melinda Talbot, 1974- Pustz, Jennifer.

GUSN: 271229

Call Number: Coll. TX653.C348 2008

Wallpapers for historic buildings :a guide to selecting reproduction wallpapers /Richard C. Nylander.

263 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm., A catalog of more than 1,000 authentically reproduced designs available today.

Date: c1992.

Creators: Nylander, Richard C.

GUSN: 272222

Call Number: Coll. NK3399.N94 1992

Traditional tapa textiles of the Pacific /Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast ; photography by Krzysztof Pfeiffer.

160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Neich, Roger. Pendergrast, Mick, 1932- Pfeiffer, Krzysztof.

GUSN: 272223

Call Number: Coll. GN432.N45 1998

The Holy Bible :containing the Old and New Testaments /translated out of the original tongues, being the version set forth A.D. 1611 ; compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1881-1885 ; newly edited by the American revision committee A.D. 1901.

ix, 922, vi, 285 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Date: c1901.

Creators: American Revision Committee.

GUSN: 272224

Call Number: GRO BS190.A 1901 N4

Bath and West Bath /Joyce K. Bibber.

128 p. : chiefly ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1995

Creators: Bibber, Joyce K.

GUSN: 272315

Call Number: Stacks F29.B4 B53 1995

The American pharos, or Light-house guide :founded on official reports received at the Treasury Department : Also, a general view of the coast, from the St. Lawrence to the Sabine. : To which is added an appendix, containing an account of the light houses on the Gulf and River St. Lawrence, with sailing directions for the St. Lawrence: founded on official reports from the Trinity Board of Quebec, in 1832. : [Four lines of quotation] /By Robert Mills, P.A. engineer and architect, member of the Columbian Institute.

184 p. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Mills, Robert, 1781-1855. Force, Peter, 1790-1868, printer. Thompson & Homans,

GUSN: 272342

Call Number: Rare VK1241.M65

A Weston timeline /by Pamela W. Fox.

40 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Fox, Pamela W. Weston (Mass.). Historical Commission. Weston Historical Society.

GUSN: 272346

Call Number: Stacks F72 .W478 F69 1995

Pictorial views of Massachusetts :for the young.

[64] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.

Date: [between 1853 and 1865].

Creators: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. Brown, Samuel E., d. ca. 1860. Enos Dorr & Co.

GUSN: 272371

Call Number: Rare E18.7 .M37 E567

Christina Albertas Vater,Roman.

549, [3] p. 20 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. Mandl, Otto, tr. Mark, Richard, joint tr.

GUSN: 272482

Call Number: GRO PR5774.C4 G4 1929

Wood-frame house construction /by L.O. Anderson.

v, 223 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Anderson, L. O. (LeRoy Oscar), 1905-

GUSN: 272483

Call Number: Stacks TH4818.W6 A52 1975

Remains of Samuel Bartlett Parris, M. D.,comprising miscellaneous poems and essays, selected from his manuscripts; with a biographical sketch of the author.

xii, [13]-312 p., 1 l.

Date: 1829. [c1828]

Creators: Parris, Samuel Bartlett, 1806-1827.

GUSN: 272484

Call Number: Rare PS2523.P4 1829

Pages from an architect's sketch book, 1900-1930.

[52] leaves : chiefly ill. (2 col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Emerson, William, 1873-1957.

GUSN: 272485

Call Number: Rare NA737.E5 A3 1930

Line, shade, and shadow :the fabrication and preservation of architectural drawings /Lois Olcott Price.

xx, 359 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., "Explores materials and techniques used in the creation of eighteenth- to twentieth-century architectural drawings. Examines the development of drafting, changing media and techniques, presentation, history, and preservation of drawings. Illustrated with examp...

Date: 2010.

Creators: Price, Lois Olcott.

GUSN: 272498

Call Number: 85M Ref NA2705.P75 2010

The complete historical record of New England's stricken area, September 21, 1938.More than 700 vivid views.

[96] p. illus., map 12 x 30 cm.

Date: [c1938]

GUSN: 272586

Call Number: Rare F9.B864 1938

Historic paperhanging techniques :a bibliographic essay /by Robert M. Kelly.

13 leaves ; 28 cm.

Creators: Kelly, Robert M. International Preservation Trades Workshop

GUSN: 272615

Call Number: Ref. TH8441.H57 2011

Tales from Boccaccio,Englished from the French of Jean de La Fontaine, illus. by Richard Floethe.

124 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1947]

Creators: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695. Flöthe, Richard, ill. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.

GUSN: 272946

Call Number: GRO PQ1811.E4 F55

Letters of a woman homesteader /by Elinore Pruitt Stewart ; with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

281 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm., The letters written by Stewart through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell of her frontier life homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming.

Date: 1982, c1942.

Creators: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933. Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945.

GUSN: 272947

Call Number: Roth/Coll. F761.S8 1982

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