Historic New England

Florula bostoniensis. A collection of plants of Boston and its vicinity, with their generic and specific characters, principal synonyms, descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks. By Jacob Bigelow ...

5 p., 1 l., 422, [1] p. 25 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.

GUSN: 151050

Call Number: Rare QK166.B5 1824

The young florist : or, Conversations on the culture of flowers, and on natural history, with numerous engravings, from original designs / by Joseph Breck ...

168 p. : ill., plates, 13 cm.

Date: 1833.

Creators: Breck, Joseph, 1794-1873.

GUSN: 151051

Call Number: Rare SB405.B835

Confidences of an amateur gardener.

299 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Dew-Smith, A. M.

GUSN: 151052

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.D47

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc. with remarks on rural architecture... By A. J. Downing.

2 p. ¾., viii, [9]-451 p. front., illus. 24 1/2 cm.

Date: 1841

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852

GUSN: 151053

Call Number: Rare SB471.D7 1841

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out gardens and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc., with remarks on rural architecture.

xiv, [9]-497 p. front., illus., plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1844.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.

GUSN: 151054

Call Number: Rare SB471.D

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences ... With remarks on rural architecture. By the late A. J. Downing, esq.

xvi, [17]-592 p. front. (port.) illus., plates, plans. 24 cm.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882.

GUSN: 151055

Call Number: Rare Browne SB471.D756

De l'art des jardins du XVe au XXe siáecle, par Marcel Fouquier.

x, 254 p., 1 ¾. incl. front. illus., plates, ports. 39 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Fouquier, Marcel, 1866-1961.

GUSN: 151056

Call Number: Rare Browne SB451.F7

Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds. With designs, in various styles of rural embellishment: comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves ... To which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants, adapted to villa grounds ...

xi, 70 p. 20 double pl. 31 cm.

Date: 1813.

Creators: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.

GUSN: 151057

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.L8

The theory and practice of gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, commonly called pleasure-gardens, as parterres, groves, bowling-greens &c. ... Together with remarks and general rules in all that concerns the art of gardening. Done from the French original, printed at Paris, anno 1709. By John James.

7 p. l., 218 p., 1 l., [2] p. illus., fold. plates. 26 x 21 cm.

Date: 1712.

Creators: Dâezallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765. James, John, d. 1746, tr. Le Blond, Alexandre Jean Baptiste, 1679-1719.

GUSN: 151058

Call Number: Rare SB461.L44

Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both, by Gertrude Jekyll; with 53 illustrations from photographs by the author.

xv, 301 p. incl. front. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.

GUSN: 151059

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.J44

Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur, by Gertrude Jekyll ... with 71 illustrations from photographs by the author.

xvi, 286 p. incl. front. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.

GUSN: 151060

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.J5 1899

The gardens of Italy / by Charles Latham ; with descriptions by E. March Phillipps.

2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 41 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Latham, Charles Phillipps, Evelyn March, d. 1915.

GUSN: 151061

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. SB466.I8 P6 1905 vol.2

A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies, and other kinds of horticultural structures. With practical directions for their management, in regard to light, heat, and air / by Robert B. Leuchars.

vi, 366 p. : ill., tables ; 21 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Leuchars, Robert B.

GUSN: 151062

Call Number: Rare SB416.L5

The American gardener's calendar; adapted to the climates and seasons of the United States. Containing a complete account of all the work necessary to be done in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, orchard, vineyard, nursery, pleasure-ground, flower-garden, green-house, hot-house, and forcing frames, for every month in the year; with ample practical directions for performing the same. Also, general as well as minute instructions, for laying out, or erecting, each and every of the above departments ... To which are annexed, extensive catalogues of the different kinds of plants ... By Bernard M'Mahon, nursery, seedsman, and florist.

v, [1], 648, [18] p. fold. tab. 22.1 cm.

Date: 1806.

Creators: MacMahon, Bernard, 1775?-1816.

GUSN: 151063

Call Number: Rare SB93.M16 1806

Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions.

4 p. ¾., 257 p. 22 cm.

Date: 1777.

Creators: Whately, Thomas, d. 1772.

GUSN: 151064

Call Number: Rare Browne SB471.W55 1777

Italian gardens ...

153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933.

GUSN: 151065

Call Number: Rare Browne NA9500.P69 (and 1 more)

The Scots gardener for the climate of Scotland : in three parts, treating of the following particulars, I. of contrivance and design, II. of gardens and orchards, &c., III. of levelling, measuring, and dividing land, IV. of cultivating and preparing ground, V. of forest and fruit trees, VI. of gathering and preserving fruits : together with The gardener's kalendar, The florist's vade-mecum, The practical bee-master, Observations on the weather, and the Earl of Haddington's Treatise on forest-trees / written originally by John Reid, gardener to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh ; and now carefully corrected, with alterations and additions, by an eminent hand.

[3]-viii, 208, 48, viii, 40 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., plans (etchings) ; 17 cm. (12mo)

Date: 1766.

Creators: Reid, John, Gardener. Haddington Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 1680-1735. Short treatise on forest-trees. Claridge, John. Shepherd of Banbury's rules. Claridge, John. The country kalendar, or the shepherd of Banbury's observations.

GUSN: 151066

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.S3 R35 1766

The parks, promenades and gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities and of public and private gardens / by W. Robinson.

xxxii, 644 p., 44 leaves of plates : ill., maps ; cm.

Date: 1869.

Creators: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.

GUSN: 151067

Call Number: Rare Browne SB485.P24 R63 1869

Garden-craft old and new / with a memorial notice by the Rev. E.F. Russell.

xxvi p., 1 ¾., 215 p. : front., plates ; cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Sedding, John Dando, 1838-1891. Russell, E. F.

GUSN: 151068

Call Number: Rare Browne SB455.S4 1892

Seven gardens and a palace / by "E.V.B." [i.e. E.V. Boyle] ; with illustrations by F.L.B. Griggs and Arthur Gordon.

xii, 297 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Boyle, Eleanor Vere Gordon, 1825-1916.

GUSN: 151069

Call Number: Rare Browne PR6003.O7 S4 1900

Gardens Ancient and Modern; an epitome of the literature of the garden-art, with an historical epilogue by Albert Forbes Sieveking.

xvi, 423 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Sieveking, Albert Forbes, 1857- ed.

GUSN: 151070

Call Number: Rare Browne SB455.S48

The evolution of horticulture in New England / by Daniel Denison Slade.

3 p. l., 180 p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Slade, Daniel Denison, 1823-1896.

GUSN: 151071

Call Number: Rare Browne SB83.S6

An island garden, by Celia Thaxter, with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam.

ix, 126 p. col. front., illus., col. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894.

GUSN: 151072

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.U7 T6

The incredible ditch : a bicentennial history of the Middlesex Canal / by Carl and Alan Seaburg and Thomas Dahill.

xi, 138 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 x 29 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Seaburg, Carl, 1922- Seaburg, Alan, 1932- Dahill, Thomas. Medford Historical Society (Medford, Mass.)

GUSN: 151223

Call Number: Stacks TC625.M6 S43 1997

A marble quarry : the James H. Ricau collection of sculpture at the Chrysler Museum of Art / H. Nichols B. Clark ; with an essay by William H. Gerdts.

280 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Clark, Henry Nichols Blake. Gerdts, William H. Chrysler Museum.

GUSN: 151224

Call Number: Stacks NB1210.M3 C56 1997

The America's cup races, by Herbert L. Stone ... illustrated with photographs.

7 p. ¾., 13-356, [3] p. front., illus., plates, ports., diagrs. 21 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Stone, Herbert Lawrence, 1871-

GUSN: 151225

Call Number: Stacks GV829.S7 1930

The furniture of our forefathers / by Esther Singleton ; with critical descriptions of plates by Russell Sturgis.

8 pt. in 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930. Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909.

GUSN: 151226

Call Number: Stacks NK2406.S58 1906 pt.1 (and 1 more)

St. Botolph's town : an account of old Boston in colonial days // by Mary Caroline Crawford.

xii, 365 p. : plates, ports., fold. map ; 20 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932.

GUSN: 151227

Call Number: Stacks F73.4.C89

Social life in old New England / by Mary Caroline Crawford ...

xiii, 515 p. : front., plates, ports ; 22 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932.

GUSN: 151228

Call Number: Stacks F5.C913 c.1 (and 1 more)

Lively days : some memoirs of Margaret Homer Shurcliff.

115 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Shurcliff, Margaret Homer Nichols.

GUSN: 151229

Call Number: Stacks CT275.S47 A35

Wallpaper, its history, design and use / by Phyllis Ackerman, PH. D. ; with frontispiece in color and numerous illustrations from photographs.

xix, 268 p. : ill., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: Ackerman, Phyllis, 1893-

GUSN: 151230

Call Number: Stacks NK3395.A3 1923a

The quest of the colonial [by] Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton; illustrated with many photographs and with decorations by Harry Fenn.

ix, 425 p. incl. illus., 44 pl. col. front. 22 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Shackleton, Robert, 1860-1923. Shackleton, Elizabeth, 1871-1936.

GUSN: 151231

Call Number: Stacks NK2406.S5

Colonial homes and their furnishings / by Mary H. Northend.

xxi, 252 p. CXVII pl. (incl. front.) on 69 l. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850-1926.

GUSN: 151232

Call Number: Stacks NA707.N6 c.1 (and 3 more)

Decorating for modern living : practical, room-by-room sourcebook of ideas / Gerd Hatje, Peter Kaspar.

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

Date: [1977]

Creators: Hatje, Gerd. Kaspar, Peter.

GUSN: 151233

Call Number: Stacks NK2115.H34

How to plan & design additions / project editor, Kenneth R. Burke ; lead writers, John R. Musgrave, Fred B. Thompson ; writers, Beverly DeWitt, Charistina Nelson ; illustrator, Rick Olson ; additional illustrations, Ron Hildebrand.

96 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Musgrave, John R. Thompson, Fred B. Burke, Ken. Ortho Books.

GUSN: 151234

Call Number: Stacks TH4816.M87 1986

A history of Ford Motor Company / Marie Cahill.

192 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: Cahill, Marie.

GUSN: 151235

Call Number: Stacks TL140.F6 C33 1992

Window shopping with Kirsch / [Roseann Fairchild, editor].

136 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1986.

Creators: Fairchild, Roseann. Cooper Industries. Kirsch Company.

GUSN: 151236

Call Number: Stacks TT390.W5 1986

Ladies' home journal book of interior decoration / by Elizabeth T. Halsey, with the co-operation of Ladies' home journal former interior decoration editor, Henrietta Murdock, interior decoration editor, Cynthia McAdoo Wheatland, architectural and garden editor, Richard Pratt, homemaking editor, Margaret Davidson, contributing editor, Gladys Taber [and] designer contributor, H.T. Williams.

256 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Halsey, Elizabeth T.

GUSN: 151237

Call Number: Stacks NK2110.H24 1957

The Doubleday book of interior decorating.

216 p. illus. (part col.) forms, plans. 29 cm.

Date: [1965]

Creators: Kornfeld, Albert.

GUSN: 151238

Call Number: Stacks NK2110.K67

A history of General Motors / Timothy Jacobs.

192 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 32 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: Jacobs, Timothy, 1950-

GUSN: 151239

Call Number: Stacks HD9710.U64 G4 1992

The Providence Athenaeum, a brief history, 1753-l939 / by Grace F. Leonard and W. Chesley Worthington.

61 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Leonard, Grace Fisher, 1873- Worthington, William Chesley, 1903-

GUSN: 151240

Call Number: Stacks Z675.S8 L46

The Providence National Bank : one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, 1791-1941.

52 , xiii, p. : ill. 22 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Providence (R.I.). National Bank.

GUSN: 151241

Call Number: Stacks HG2613.P94 N3 1941

A history of Vermont / by Edward Day Collins ... with geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, maps and illustrations.

x,325 p. : front. (port.), ill. maps ; 19 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Collins, Edward Day, 1869-1940.

GUSN: 151242

Call Number: Stacks F49 C56 1903

History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical : in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings.

224, 224, 200 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1842.

Creators: Thompson, Zadock, 1796-1856.

GUSN: 151243

Call Number: Stacks F49.T48 1842

Streets, public buildings and general views of Burlington, Vermont / published by L.G. Burnham ; C.P. Hibbard, photographer.

25 leaves of plates ; 18 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Hibbard, Charles P. Burnham, L. G.

GUSN: 151244

Call Number: Stacks F59.B9 H53

Appleton's cyclopedia of biography : embracing a series of original memoirs of the most distinguished persons of all times / Sir Archibald Alison, William Baird.

1058 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Alison, Archibald, Sir, 1792-1862. Baird, William.

GUSN: 151245

Call Number: Ref. CT103.R53 1872

Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888 / ompiled and pub. by Hamilton Child.

2 v. in 1 : ports ; 24 cm.

Date: 1888.

Creators: Child, Hamilton, b. 1836.

GUSN: 151246

Call Number: Stacks F57.O6 C53

The second battle of Bennington: a history of Vermont's centennial, and the one hundredth anniversary of Bennington's battle. A civic and military review. By Charles S. Forbes.

95, [1] p. incl. front. pl., port., 3 plans. 18 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Forbes, Charles Spooner, 1851-

GUSN: 151247

Call Number: Stacks E241.B4 F6

Memorials of a century : embracing a record of individuals and events, chiefly in the early history of Bennington, Vt., and its First church / by Isaac Jennings ...

xviii, [19]-408 p. : ill., plan, plates ; 21 cm.

Date: 1869.

Creators: Jennings, Isaac, 1816-1887.

GUSN: 151248

Call Number: Stacks F59.B4 J5

Dedication of the restored Old First church of Bennington : as Vermont's colonial shrine, Sunday, August 15, 1937 / edited by the minister of the church, Dr. Vincent Ravi Booth; Denison Bingham Hull, architect...

98 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Ravi-Booth, Vincent, 1876- ed.

GUSN: 151249

Call Number: Stacks BX7255.B43 F5

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