Historic New England

An island garden /Celia Thaxter ; with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam ; introduction by Allen Lacy.

xiv, ix, 126 p. [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1988, c1894.

Creators: Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894.

GUSN: 259783

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB466.U7 C458 1988

Architekturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts /M. Scharabi.

x, 388 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Scharabi, Mohamed.

GUSN: 259784

Call Number: Stacks NA645.S32 1993

English slip-decorated earthenware at Williamsburg /Leslie B. Grigsby.

80 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Grigsby, Leslie B. (Leslie Brown)

GUSN: 259785

Call Number: Coll. NK4085.G75 1993

Bertram Goodhue :his life and residential architecture /Romy Wyllie.

224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm., "An architect of exceptional vision, whose work is still relevant today, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924) died at a crucial moment, when he was severing his ties to traditionalism and establishing himself as the leader of a new architectural style. This book ...

Date: c2007.

Creators: Wyllie, Romy.

GUSN: 259786

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.G6 W95 2007

The craftsman and the critic :defining usefulness and beauty in arts and crafts-era Boston /Beverly K. Brandt.

xxx, 391 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Brandt, Beverly Kay.

GUSN: 259787

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK1141.B73 2009 c. 1 (and 1 more)

The last muster :images of the Revolutionary War generation /Maureen Taylor ; with significant contributions by David Allen Lambert.

xii, 177 p. : col. ill., ports. (chiefly col.) ; 19 x 24 cm., This collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers. It is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the history of the early Repu...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Taylor, Maureen Alice.

GUSN: 259788

Call Number: Stacks E206.T39 2010

A new world imagined :art of the Americas /Elliot Bostwick Davis ... [et al.] ; [edited by Fronia Simpson, Mark Polizzotti, and Emiko K. Usui].

359 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 27 cm., This work proposes a bold new look at the art of the Americas by viewing it through its intersections and relationships with the world at large. Taking the vast geography and staggering cultural diversity of the North and South American continents as its s...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Davis, Elliot Bostwick. Wissman, Fronia E. Polizzotti, Mark. Usui, Emiko K. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 259789

Call Number: Coll. N520.A5 N49 2010 c. 2 (and 1 more)

Lift thine eyes :the landscape, the buildings, the heritage of Northfield Mount Hermon School /Sally Atwood Hamilton, editor.

xiii, 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 31 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Hamilton, Sally Atwood.

GUSN: 259790

Call Number: Stacks LD7501.M9285 L54 2010

With needle and brush :schoolgirl embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley, 1740-1840 /Carol Huber ... [et al.].

ix, 98 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Huber, Carol. Florence Griswold Museum.

GUSN: 259791

Call Number: Stacks NK9212.W57 2011 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Connecticut needlework :women, art, and family, 1740-1840 /Susan P. Schoelwer.

xiii, 220 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 32 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast. Connecticut Historical Society.

GUSN: 259792

Call Number: Coll. NK8802.H37 C663 2010 c. 2 (and 1 more)

Remodeling the nation :the architecture of American identity, 1776-1858 /Duncan Faherty.

xi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., "In this interdisciplinary study, Duncan Faherty argues that throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans conceptualized their still unsettled political and social states through metaphors of home building. During this period, a pervasive conce...

Date: c2007.

Creators: Faherty, Duncan.

GUSN: 259794

Call Number: Stacks NA7206.F34 2007

Hawthorne's Lenox :the Tanglewood circle /Cornelia Brooke Gilder with Julia Conklin Peters.

126 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Gilder, Cornelia Brooke. Peters, Julia Conklin.

GUSN: 259795

Call Number: Stacks F74.L57 G45 2008

Domestic architecture, furniture and ornament of England from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century :comprising photographic and measured drawings of exteriors, interiors and details /by G. Henry Polley.

76 leaves of plates : ill. ; 48 cm.

Date: [1911]

Creators: Polley, G. Henry (George Henry), b. 1846.

GUSN: 252420

Call Number: Perry NA7328.P6 1911

Choix des plus célèbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs /mesurées et dessinées par Charles Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine.

72 p., 75 [i.e. 77] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 58 cm.

Date: 1809.

Creators: Percier, Charles, 1764-1838. Fontaine, Pierre François Léonard, 1762-1853.

GUSN: 252421

Call Number: Perry NA7594.P47 1809

English interior woodwork of the XVI, XVII, & XVIIIth centuries.A series of the best and most characteristic examples of chimney-pieces, panelling, staircases, doors, screens, &c.,measured and drawn and with introductory and descriptive text by Henry Tanner, junr.

viii, 10 p., 1 l., 50 plates. 45 x 33 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Tanner, Henry, 1876-1947.

GUSN: 252422

Call Number: Perry NA3900.T2 1903

Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs :collections de l'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs exposées au Palais de l'Industrie, à Paris.

1 v. : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Union centrale des arts décoratifs (Paris, France)

GUSN: 252423

Call Number: Perry NK480.P32 U55 1895

Pompeian decorations /by R.A. Briggs.

[15] p., 25 leaves, 26 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 37 cm.

Date: [1912]

Creators: Briggs, R. A. (Robert Alexander)

GUSN: 252424

Call Number: Perry NK1245.B7 1912

Polychromatic ornament :one hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediµval art, and including the renaissance and the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries /the subjects selected and arranged, in historical order and in a form suitable for practical use, by A. Racinet ; with explanatory text, and a general introduction, translated from the original French.

58 p., [102] leaves, 100 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825-1893.

GUSN: 252425

Call Number: Perry NK1530.R32 1877

Fragments d'architecture et de sculpture /dessinés d'après nature et autographiés par G. Bourgerel.

[3] leaves, ci leaves of plates : all ill. ; 46 cm.

Date: 1863.

Creators: Bourgerel, G.

GUSN: 252426

Call Number: Perry NA2707.B67 A4 1863

Italian gardens of the Renaissance,by J.C. Shepherd and G.A. Jellicoe.

1 v. : chiefly ill. ; 46 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Shepherd, J. C. (John C.), d. 1978. Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1900-1996, joint author.

GUSN: 252427

Call Number: Perry SB466.I8 S5 1925

Fifteenth century Italian ornament,chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in pictures in the National gallery, London;by Sydney Vacher ...

4 p. l., 5, [3] p. 30 col. pl. 53 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Vacher, Sydney.

GUSN: 252428

Call Number: Perry NK8952.V3 1886

Vieilles faïences turques en Asie Mineure et à Constantinople /[par] Alexandre Raymond. Avec introduction et descriptions explicatives par Charles Wulzinger.

27 p. 40 col. plates (4 double) 50 cm.

Date: 1922?]

Creators: Raymond, Alexandre M. Wulzinger, Karl, b. 1886.

GUSN: 252429

Call Number: Perry NK4129.R3 1922

Intérieurs & mobiliers de styles anciens :collection recueillie en belgique /publiée et décrite par P. Wytsman.

v. : plates ; 36 cm.

Date: 1900-

Creators: Wytsman, P. (Philogène), 1866-1925, ed.

GUSN: 252430

Call Number: Perry NK1860.W98 1900 v.1

Italian furniture, interiors and decoration from the XV to the XVIII century.

1 l., 60 plates. 37 cm.

Date: [19--?]

GUSN: 252431

Call Number: Perry NK2559.I855 1900z

The art of garden design in Italy,by H. Inigo Triggs.

xii, 135 p. illus., plans, 128 plates, 45 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Triggs, H. Inigo (Harry Inigo), 1876-1923.

GUSN: 252432

Call Number: Perry SB466.I8 T8 1906

The unedited antiquities of Attica;comprising the architectural remains of Eleusis, Rhamnus, Sunium, and Thoricus.By the Society of Dilettanti ...

3 p. l., 59 p. front., plates, maps, plans, diagrs. 50 cm.

Date: 1833.

Creators: Society of Dilettanti (London, England)

GUSN: 252433

Call Number: Perry NA271.S7 1833

Fabbriche e disegni di Giacomo Quarenghi, architetto di S.M. l'Imperatore di Russia ... /illustrate dal cav. Giulio, suo figlio.

46 p., lix leaves of plates : ill., plans, port. ; 47 cm.

Date: 1821.

Creators: Quarenghi, Giacomo, 1744-1817. Quarenghi, Giulio.

GUSN: 252434

Call Number: Perry NA1123.Q28 A4 1821

Houses and gardens by E.L. Lutyens,described and criticised by Lawrence Weaver.

xl, 344 p. incl. front., illus. 40 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-

GUSN: 252435

Call Number: Perry NA997.L8 W4 1913

Fragments d'architecture antique d'après les relevés & restaurations des anciens pensionnaires de l'Académie de France à Rome;publiés sous la direction de H. d'Espouy ...

2 v. 200 pl. (incl. plans, diagrs.) 44 x 35 cm.

Date: [189-?]-1905.

Creators: Espouy, H. d' (Hector d'), 1854-1928. Daumet, Georges, 1870-1918.

GUSN: 252436

Call Number: Perry NA261.E6 1890z v.1 (and 1 more)

Voyage pittoresque; ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

5 pts. in 4 v. illus., plates, maps (part fold.) 51 cm.

Date: 1781-1786.

Creators: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727-1791. Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, 1740?-1794. Précis historique de révolutions de Naples et de Sicile.

GUSN: 252437

Call Number: Perry DG821.S14 1781 v.1, pt.2 (and 2 more)

London churches of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.A selection of the most remarkable ecclesiastical buildings, including St. Paul's Cathedral, erected within and around the ancient city walls between the years 1630 and 1730, from the designs of Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and James Gibbs. A series of sixty-four plates, and numerous other illustrations. With historical and descriptive accounts by George H. Birch ...

5 p. l., [vii]-xviii, 165, [1] p. illus., LXIV pl. (incl. front.) plan. 49 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Birch, George Henry, 1842-1904. Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652. Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723. Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736. Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.

GUSN: 252438

Call Number: Perry NA5470.A1 B5 1896

Ionian antiquities /published with permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R. Chandler ; N. Revett, architect ; W. Pars, painter.

iv, 53 p., vi, xii : 10 plates, ill. ; 53 cm.

Date: 1769.

Creators: Chandler, Richard, 1738-1810. Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804. Pars, William, 1742-1782. Society of Dilettanti.

GUSN: 252439

Call Number: Perry NA271.C4 1769

Rediscovering the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House /editors: Michael Kenney and Gavin W. Kleespies.

40 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Kenney, Michael. Kleespies, Gavin W. Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.)

GUSN: 253141

Call Number: Stacks F74.C1 C1 2010

The Hall Park McCullough collection :portraits of George Washington /by Jenny Squires Wilker ; with an introduction by J. Robert Maguire.

38 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Wilker, Jenny Squires, 1941- Middlebury College. Museum of Art.

GUSN: 253142

Call Number: Coll. N7628.W3 W56 1995

Boston Women's Heritage Trail.

31 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Date: c1991.

Creators: Boston Women's Heritage Trail (Organization)

GUSN: 253143

Call Number: Stacks F73.18.B67 1991

The song of the ancient people,by Edna Dean Proctor; with preface and notes by John Fiske and commentary by F.H. Cushing. Illustrated with eleven aquatints, by Julian Scott.

xvii p., 1 l., 24 l., 1 l., 27-69 p. 11 col. pl. (incl. front.) 24 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923. Fiske, John, 1842-1901. Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900. Scott, Julian, 1846-1901, ill.

GUSN: 253144

Call Number: Stacks E99.P9 P8 1893

Death of an empire :the rise and murderous fall of Salem, America's richest city /Robert Booth.

xvi, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's first millionaire (still one of history's 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the country's ric...

Date: 2011.

Creators: Booth, Robert.

GUSN: 253145

Call Number: Stacks F74.S1 B66 2011

The American country club :its origins and development /James M. Mayo.

x, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., The American country club movement parallels the rise of suburbanization in the United States. Its roots can be found in the exclusive city clubs and summer resorts of the nineteenth century; its growth reflects a desire for permanent and organized places where the wealthy...

Date: c1998.

Creators: Mayo, James M.

GUSN: 254559

Call Number: Stacks HS2723.M39 1998

Living in the depot :the two-story railroad station /H. Roger Grant.

xiv, 131 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Grant, H. Roger, 1943-

GUSN: 254560

Call Number: Stacks TF302.U54 G73 1993

The new American ghetto /Camilo José Vergara.

p. cm., Photographs reveal the decay in such urban cities as Chicago, Newark, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles, showing the transformation of certain sites over time, and pointing out the beauty in some of the ruins.

Date: 1997, c1995.

Creators: Vergara, Camilo J.

GUSN: 254561

Call Number: Stacks HN57.V47 1997

Frank Lloyd Wright :designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932 /David G. De Long, general editor ; Anne Whiston Spirn, C. Ford Peatross, Robert L. Sweeney.

207 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm., During the 1920s, as the five remarkable projects in this book show, Frank Lloyd Wright developed architectural prototypes of far-reaching consequence. None of these schemes - Doheny Ranch, the Lake Tahoe summer colony, and the A. M. Johnson desert compound,...

Date: 1996.

Creators: Spirn, Anne Whiston, 1947- Peatross, C. Ford. Sweeney, Robert L. (Robert Lawrence), 1945- De Long, David Gilson, 1939- Centre canadien d'architecture. Library of Congress. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

GUSN: 254562

Call Number: Stacks NA737.W7 A4 1996

Perspectives in vernacular architecture,II /edited by Camille Wells.

244 p. : ill., plans ; 27 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Wells, Camille. Vernacular Architecture Forum (U.S.)

GUSN: 254563

Call Number: Stacks NA705.P472 1986 (and 1 more)

Inside culture :art and class in the American home /David Halle.

xvi, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., "David Halle's idea was simple but radical: to connect culture to everyday life by showing how people actually use the artifacts of culture - paintings, photographs, sculpture - in the most intimate of all settings: the home." "In the first book of its kind, Halle ...

Date: 1993.

Creators: Halle, David.

GUSN: 254564

Call Number: Stacks N72.S6 H32 1993

The perfect city /Bob Thall ; with an essay by Peter Bacon Hales.

113 p. : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm., In The Perfect City, photographer Bob Thall explores the changing downtown landscape of America's third-largest city - Chicago. In sixty-four duotone photographs, Thall provides a visual record of the changing architectural landscape of downtown Chicago between 1972 and ...

Date: 1994.

Creators: Thall, Bob. Hales, Peter B. (Peter Bacon)

GUSN: 254565

Call Number: Stacks NA735.C4 T48 1994

Cities of light and heat :domesticating gas and electricity in urban America /Mark H. Rose.

xviii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Cities of Light and Heat takes us to Kansas City and Denver during the late nineteenth century when gas and electricity were introduced to these "instant cities" of the West. With rich detail, Mark Rose shows how the new technology spread during the next century from a...

Date: c1995.

Creators: Rose, Mark H., 1942-

GUSN: 254566

Call Number: 85M Stacks HD4606.D33 R67 1995

Main street revisited :time, space, and image building in small-town America /Richard V. Francaviglia ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

xxiv, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., Main Street has come to symbolize a place of honest aspirations and few pretenses, a place where economics, community pride, and entertainment generate an intuitive appreciation of the small town as a vital part of the American experience. As an archetype for an e...

Date: c1996.

Creators: Francaviglia, Richard V.

GUSN: 254567

Call Number: Stacks HT167.F73 1996

Living downtown :the history of residential hotels in the United States /Paul Groth.

xxii, 401 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Groth, Paul Erling.

GUSN: 254568

Call Number: Stacks HD7288.U4 G76 1994

Real places :an unconventional guide to America's generic landscape /Grady Clay.

xxiii, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., Today's "good address" may be tomorrow's "changing neighborhood," with "drug scene" and even "ghost town" not too far off. The "edge of town" may be overrun with "speculative sites." A "depressed area" could be turning into a "growth area" and "lovers' lane" into...

Date: 1994.

Creators: Clay, Grady.

GUSN: 254569

Call Number: Stacks E169.Z82 C57 1994

The Massachusetts Historical Society :a bicentennial history, 1791-1991 /Louis Leonard Tucker.

xviii, 623 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Tucker, Louis Leonard, 1927-

GUSN: 254570

Call Number: Stacks F61.M43 T83 1995

Army engineers in New England :the military and civil work of the Corps of Engineers in New England, 1775-1975 /by Aubrey Parkman.

xi, 319 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Parkman, Aubrey, 1918-

GUSN: 254571

Call Number: Stacks UG23.P37 1978

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