Historic New England

A Select collection of valuable and curious arts and interesting experiments : which are well explained, and warranted genuine and may be performed easily, safely, and at little expense.

[4], [iii]-172 p. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1826.

GUSN: 150912

Call Number: Rare T49.S4 1826

The bloody doughnut; or, The cook's revenge. By Marie Blodget Gookin and Ruth Mary Greenough, assisted by Susan Welles Shaw.

8 p. : ill., plates ; cm.

Date: 1891.

Creators: Gookin, Marie Blodget. Greenough, Ruth Mary.

GUSN: 150913

Call Number: Rare PS1757.G642

A guide to old and new lace in Italy, exhibited at Chicago in 1893.

186 p. front., 2 ports., fold. facsim. 22 cm.

Date: 1893]

Creators: Brazzáa, Countess di, b. 1862.

GUSN: 150914

Call Number: Rare Browne NK9452.B7

An account of remarkable cures, performed by the use of Maredant's antiscorbutic drops.

29 p. ; cm.

Date: [1772?]

Creators: Norton, John, d. 1783.

GUSN: 150915

Call Number: Rare R730.N67 1772

The Book of trades, or, Library of the useful arts. Part II / illustrated with twenty-four copper-plates.

[4], 139 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1807

Creators: Ralph, William, engraver.

GUSN: 150916

Call Number: Rare T47.B72 1807

The art of tanning and currying leather: with an account of all the different processes made use of in Europe and Asia, for dying leather red and yellow. Collected and published at the expence of the Dublin Society ...

xx, 259, [5] p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1780.

Creators: Nourse, J., bookseller, London. Royal Dublin Society.

GUSN: 150917

Call Number: Rare TS965.D81

The Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition, illustrated.

v. : ill., plates, diagrs. ; cm.

Date: [1875]

Creators: Shinn, Earl, 1837-1886. Wilson, Joseph M. (Joseph Miller), 1838-1902.

GUSN: 150918

Call Number: Rare N4825.M2 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Tallis's history and description of the Crystal palace, and the Exhibition of the world's industry in 1851 / illustrated by beautiful steel engravings, from original drawings and daguerreotypes by Beard, Mayall, etc.

3 v. : front., plates. ; 28cm.

Date: 1852]

Creators: Tallis, John, 1815 or 6-1876. Strutt, Jacob George, 1790-1864.

GUSN: 150919

Call Number: Rare T690.B1 T14 vol.1

Soundings from the Atlantic. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

468 p. illus. 19 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

GUSN: 150920

Call Number: Rare PS1972.S7 1864

The rural cemeteries of America.

21 parts. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1847-1853?]

Creators: Cleaveland, N. (Nehemiah), 1796-1877. Smillie, James, 1807-1885, illus. Walter, Cornelia.

GUSN: 150921

Call Number: Stacks F5.R87

Ancient architecture, restored, and improved, by a great variety of grand and uesfull designs, entirely new in the Gothick mode ... engraved on LXIV large Quarto copper plates by Batty and Thomas Langley.

64 pl. 30 cm.

Date: 1742].

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751.

GUSN: 151123

Call Number: Rare Browne NA963.L36

Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration; calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artisans, and set to view in four parts ... The whole exemplify'd with a large number of folio copper plates, curiously engraven by the best hands. By Batty Langley.

6 p. ¾., viii, 136 p. fold. front., plates (incl. tables, diagrs; part. fold.) 36 cm.

Date: 1729.

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

GUSN: 151124

Call Number: Rare Browne T353.L28 1729

The builder's jewel, or, the youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer : explaining short and easy rules ... for drawing and working ... / by B. and T. Langley.

34, [2] p., 99 p. of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1763.

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751.

GUSN: 151125

Call Number: Rare NA2840.L2 1763

The builder's jewel, or, the youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer ... / by B. and T. Langley.

34, [2] p., 99 p. of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1757.

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751. Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751.

GUSN: 151126

Call Number: Rare NA2840.L2 1757

The architecture of A. Palladio in four books : containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building; as also the different construction of private and publick houses, high-ways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights / revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni ... Tr. from the Italian original.

4 v. in 1 : ports., plates, plans ; 48 cm.

Date: 1721.

Creators: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580. Leoni, Giacomo, ca. 1686-1746. Du Bois, Nicolas, tr.

GUSN: 151127

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2517.P3 1721

A practical essay on a cement and artificial stone : justly supposed to be that of the Greeks and Romans, lately re-discovered by Monsieur Loriot, for the cheap, easy, expeditious and durable construction of all manner of buildings, and the formation of all kinds of ornaments of architecture, even with the commonest and coarsest materials.

48 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1776.

Creators: Loriot, Antoine-Joseph, 1716-1782.

GUSN: 151128

Call Number: Rare TP881.L6713 1776

A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences; and on the choice of situations appropriate to every class of purchasers ... With an appendix ... By John Loudon ...

2 v. plates, plans. 27 cm.

Date: 1806.

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

GUSN: 151129

Call Number: Rare SB471.L88 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Designs for shop fronts : doors, door-cases, book-cases, roofs & c. With the details to each plate and various useful and ornamental designs for internal and external finish of houses. Also, the Grecian orders of architecture / by T. Faulkner ...

[27] p. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1---?]

Creators: Faulkner, T.

GUSN: 151130

Call Number: Rare NA6225.F3

A new and accurate method of delineating all the parts of the different orders in architecture, by means of a well contriv'd, and most easily manag'd instrument; whereon the just proportions of the principal members, and of their several parts, are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the difficulty of the fractional parts that usually attend these operations. English'd from the original Italian of Ottavio Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie ...

4 p. ¾., 52 p. diagrs. (part fold.) 37 cm.

Date: MDCCXXXVII.

Creators: Revesi Bruti, Ottavio. Malie, Thomas, tr.

GUSN: 151131

Call Number: Rare NA2812.R42

The circle of the mechanical arts; containing practical treatises on the various manual arts, trades, and manufactures. By Thomas Martin, civil engineer, assisted by eminent professional mechanics and manufacturers. Illustrated by numerous engravings.

2 p.¾., [iii]-616 p. front., ill., plates. 28 cm.

Date: 1815.

Creators: Martin, Thomas, civil engineer.

GUSN: 151132

Call Number: Rare T45.M38 1815

The Manufacturer and builder : a practical journal of industrial progress.

iv, 380 p. : ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [1869]

GUSN: 151133

Call Number: Rare NA1 M36 vol.1

An improved and enlarged edition of Nicholson's New carpenter's guide. Being a complete book of lines, for carpenters, joiners, and workmen in general, on methods entirely new, founded on geometrical principles ...

iv, xii, 121 p., 1 ¾. incl. tables. front. (port.) 121 plates. 28 cm.

Date: 1825 [-26]

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. Bowen, John, of Bridgewater.

GUSN: 151134

Call Number: Rare TH5605.N6 1826

The carpenter and joiner's assistant : containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together ... : to which are added, examples of various roofs executed ... : also extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. on the strength of timber, with practical observations / by Peter Nicholson.

79 p., 79 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1805.

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

GUSN: 151135

Call Number: Rare Browne TH5605.N61

The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery ... / by Peter Nicholson.

x, 76 p., 78 p. of plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1808.

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

GUSN: 151136

Call Number: Rare Browne HB161.G64

The builder and workman's new director : comprehending definitions and descriptions of the component parts of buildings ... employed in the erection of edifices / by Peter Nicholson ; illustrated with 150 copper plates and 480 wood cuts.

176,xl, [44]p., [140] leaves of plates : diagrs.,port. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1825.

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

GUSN: 151137

Call Number: Rare NA2521.N6

Practical carpentry, joinery, and cabinet-making / by Peter Nicholson, revised by Thomas Tredgold.

xvii, 140 p., 36, : ill., plates ; 27 cm.

Date: 1847.

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. Tredgold, Peter.

GUSN: 151138

Call Number: Rare NA711 N64

The principles of architecture, containing the fundamental rules of the art, in geometry, arithmetic, & mensuration; ... also the five orders of architecture; with a great variety of beautiful examples, selected from the antique; and many useful and elegant ornaments, with rules for projecting them.

3 v. plates 26 cm.

Date: 1809.

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

GUSN: 151139

Call Number: Rare NA2520.N58 1809 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Principles of architecture; comprising fundamental rules of the art, with their application to practice: also rules for shadows for the five orders. By Peter Nicholson.

xx, 280 p. 216 (i.e. 219) pl. (part fold.) 24 cm.

Date: 1848.

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, ed.

GUSN: 151140

Call Number: Rare NA2520.N62

The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added a list of the price of carpenters' work : the whole illustrated and made perfectly easy by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each / by William Pain ....

16, 7, [1] p., 146 [i.e. 154] leaves of plates : chiefly ill., plans ; 25 cm. (4to)

Date: 1796.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790? American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 151141

Call Number: Rare NA2515.P3 1796

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish : illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published : with clear and ample instructions ... : the whole correctly engraven on 102 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs ... / by William Pain, architect and joiner.

[3], 81 [i.e. 104] leaves (4 folded) : ill., plans ; 40 cm. (fol.)

Date: 1762.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

GUSN: 151142

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P18 1762 c.1 (and 1 more)

Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant : demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish : illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections ... / the whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.

4, 16 p., 42 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1790.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790? Pain, James.

GUSN: 151143

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2517.P2 1790

The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building. Rules of carpentry. With plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, architect and joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.

3 p. ¾., LXXXIII pl. (incl. diagrs) 27 cm.

Date: 1799.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

GUSN: 151144

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P185

The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper-plates, with explanations to each / by William Pain ...

v, 30 p. : 146 (i.e. 147) plates, plans, diagrs., part fold. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1805.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

GUSN: 151145

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P3 1805

I qvattro libri dell'architettvra / di Andrea Palladio ; ne' quali, dopáo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini, & di quelli auertimenti, che sono piu necessarii nel fabricare ; si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de' tempij.

128 p. : ill., plans ; 35 cm.

Date: 1570.

Creators: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

GUSN: 151146

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P25 1570

Modern finishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces ... to which are added some designs for villas and porticos ... the whole adapted for use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building / Engraved on eighty-six plates, from designs by W. F. Pocock ...

23, [1] p., 86 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1811.

Creators: Pocock, William Fuller, 1779-1849.

GUSN: 151147

Call Number: Rare NA2840.P63

Modern finishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces ... to which are added some designs for villas and porticos ... the whole adapted for use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building / Engraved on eighty-six plates, from designs by W. F. Pocock ...

23, [1] p., 86 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1837.

Creators: Pocock, William Fuller, 1779-1849.

GUSN: 151148

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2840.P63

A practical treatise on chimneys : containing full directions for preventing or removing smoke in houses.

79 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1777.

Creators: Anderson, James, 1739-1808.

GUSN: 151149

Call Number: Rare TH2281.A63 1777

The gentleman and builder's director : containing plain and familiar instructions for erecting every king of building, according to their respective classes, as regulated by an act of Parliament, passed the last sessions ...

54 p. : plates ; 20 cm.

Date: 1774]

Creators: Robinson, William.

GUSN: 151150

Call Number: Rare TH15.R63

Programmes ou râesumâes des leðcons du cours de construction ... / par M.J. Sganzin, ...

VIII, 296 p. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1809

Creators: Sganzin, J. M. (Joseph Mathieu), 1750-1837.

GUSN: 151151

Call Number: Rare TA18.S36 1809

Civil architecture, or, A complete theoretical and practical system of building ... / by Edward Shaw.

192 p., 97 leaves of plates, 10 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1832.

Creators: Shaw, Edward.

GUSN: 151152

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2522.S45 1832

The modern architect, or, Every carpenter his own master : embracing plans, elevations, specifications, framing, etc., for private houses, classic dwellings, churches, &c., to which is added the new system of stair-building / by Edward Shaw

128 p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm

Date: 1859.

Creators: Shaw, Edward, b. 1784.

GUSN: 151153

Call Number: Rare Browne N6510.S7

Vermont, the land of Green Mountains... Issued by the Vermont Bureau of publicity, office of secretary of state.

202, vi p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [c1913]

Creators: Vermont. Office of Secretary of State.

GUSN: 151154

Call Number: Stacks F54.V45

History and description of New England. Vermont. By A. J. Coolidge and J. B. Mansfield.

iv, 705-974, 11, [8] p. front., illus., plates, fold. map. 25 cm.

Date: 1860.

Creators: Coolidge, A. J. (Austin Jacobs) Mansfield, John Brainerd, 1826-1886, joint author.

GUSN: 151155

Call Number: Stacks F49.C77

Vermont, the Green mountain state, by Walter Hill Crockett ...

4 v. fronts., plates, ports., maps, plans, facsims. 25 cm.

Date: 1921.

Creators: Crockett, Walter Hill, 1870-1931.

GUSN: 151156

Call Number: Stacks F49.C8 vol.1 (and 3 more)

This is Vermont, by Walter and Margaret Hard; illustrated with 32 photographs and 16 reproductions of paintings from Vermont art exhibits.

8 p. 1., 318 p., 1 l. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Hard, Walter R., 1882-

GUSN: 151157

Call Number: Stacks F54.M36

A book of country things. Told by Walter Needham. Recorded by Barrows Mussey.

viii, 166 p. illus., map, port. 21 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Needham, Walter, 1896- Bond, Leroy L., 1833-1917. Mussey, June Barrows, 1910-

GUSN: 151158

Call Number: Stacks F54.N4

The Hoosac Valley : its legends and its history / by Grace Greylock Niles.

xxv, 584 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Niles, Grace Greylock.

GUSN: 151159

Call Number: Stacks F127.H7 N6

Vermont beautiful, by Wallace Nutting ... illustrated by the author with three hundred and four photographs covering all the counties in Vermont.

2 p. ¾., 3-302 p. incl. plates. 26 cm.

Date: [c1922]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 151160

Call Number: Stacks F54.N9

A narrative of a tour through the state of Vermont from April 27 to June 12, 1789.

44 p. (on double leaves) 2 ports. 22 cm.

Date: [1964]

Creators: Perkins, Nathan, 1748-1838.

GUSN: 151161

Call Number: Stacks F52.P44 1964

Adventure in Vermont, wherein we buy a house and have the pleasure of restoring it with the atmosphere and gracious living of an earlier day, by Walter Merriam Pratt... 49 illustrations.

xv, 182 p., 1 l. incl. front., illus. plates, ports. 23 -1/2 cm.

Date: [1943]

Creators: Pratt, Walter Merriam.

GUSN: 151162

Call Number: Stacks F49.P7

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