Historic New England

Revolutionary defences in Rhode Island : an historical account of the fortifications and beacons erected during the American revolution, with muster rolls of the companies stationed along the shores of Narragansett bay / by Edward Field.

xvi, 161 p. : ill., plates, 2 fold. maps, 2 fold facsims. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Field, Edward, 1858-1928.

GUSN: 150754

Call Number: Stacks F83.F54 1896

A short history of Rhode Island / by George Washington Greene.

xxvi, 356 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Greene, George Washington, 1811-1883.

GUSN: 150755

Call Number: Stacks F79.G79

The "Old Stone Bank" history of Rhode Island : presented by Providence Institution for Savings ...

4 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1929 - 44.

Creators: Haley, John Williams, 1897- Providence Institution for Savings.

GUSN: 150756

Call Number: Stacks F79.P95 vol.1 (and 3 more)

An account of the churches in Rhode-Island : presented at an adjourned session of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Rhode-Island Baptist State Convention, Providence, November 8, 1853 / by Henry Jackson.

134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Jackson, Henry, 1798-1863.

GUSN: 150757

Call Number: Stacks F80.J14

Once upon a time in Rhode Island, by Katherine Pyle, illustrated by Helen B. Mason.

204, [2] p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: c1914]

Creators: Pyle, Katharine, d. 1938. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Rhode Island.

GUSN: 150758

Call Number: Stacks F80.P98

The book of Rhode Island : an illustrated description of the advantages and opportunities of the state of Rhode Island and the progress that has been achieved, with historical sketches of many leading industries and a biographical record of citizens who have helped to produce the ... structure--historical, commercial, industrial, agricultural and recreational ... / distributed by Rhode Island State bureau of information, in cooperation with Rhode Island conference of business associations, compilers and publishers.

299 p. : ill., port., maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Rhode Island. State Bureau of Information. Rhode Island Conference of Business Associations.

GUSN: 150759

Call Number: Stacks F79.R49

Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790: Rhode Island.

71 p. 29 cm.

Date: 1966.

Creators: United States. Bureau of the Census. United States. Census Office. 1st census, 1790.

GUSN: 150760

Call Number: Stacks F83.U5 1966

Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England. Printed by order of the General Assembly. Ed. by John Russell Bartlett, Secretary of State.

10 v. ports. 30 cm.

Date: 1856-65.

Creators: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886. Rhode Island.

GUSN: 150761

Call Number: Stacks F76.R293 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Bristol, Rhode Island, September 24th , A.D. 1880 / Compiled by William J. Miller.

viii, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1880].

Creators: Miller, William Jones, 1818-1886.

GUSN: 150762

Call Number: Stacks F89.B8 C4

History of the town of East Greenwich and adjacent territory, from 1677 to 1877.

263 p. front., 2 pl. 20 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Greene, D. H. (Daniel Howland), 1807-1886.

GUSN: 150763

Call Number: Stacks F89.E15 G7

History of Jamestown on Conanicut Island in the State of Rhode Island.

111 p. : ill., maps 24 cm.

Date: c1949]

Creators: Watson, Walter Leon, 1878-

GUSN: 150764

Call Number: Stacks F89.J3 W3 1949

South county studies of some eighteenth century persons, places & conditions in that portion of Rhode Island called Narragansett / by Esther Bernon Carpenter.

xv, 297, p. : plate ; 24 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: Carpenter, Esther Bernon, 1848-1893. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

GUSN: 150765

Call Number: Stacks F87.N2 C3

Collected papers on The inscribed rocks of Narragansett Bay, by Edmund B. Delabarre.

3 p. ¾., 149 p. illus. (incl. map) plates, charts. 23 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Delabarre, Edmund Burke, b. 1863.

GUSN: 150766

Call Number: Stacks F87.N2 D2

Anchors of tradition; a presentment of some little known facts and persons in a small corner of colonial New England called Narragansett, to which are added certain weavings of fancy from the thread of life upon the loom of time, by Caroline Hazard.

viii, 242 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: Hazard, Caroline, 1856-1945.

GUSN: 150767

Call Number: Stacks F87.N2 H4

Flags of the Old state house, Newport, R.I. / John Howard Benson.

20 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: [1942]

Creators: Benson, J. H.

GUSN: 150768

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 B46 1942

Early recollections of Newport, R. I. : from the year 1793 to 1811. By George G. Channing.

xiv, 284 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Channing, George G. (George Gibbs), 1789-1881.

GUSN: 150769

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 C4

The American woman's home, or, Principles of domestic science : being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful and Christian homes / by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

500 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1869

Creators: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

GUSN: 150770

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX145.B415 1869

American horse-drawn vehicles : being a collection of two hundred and eighteen pictures showing one hundred and eighty-three American vehicles (and parts thereof) all reproduced from fashion plates of the builders of from little-known original photographs / by Jack Rittenhouse.

101 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: Rittenhouse, Jack D. (Jack DeVere), 1912-

GUSN: 150771

Call Number: Coll. TS2010.R5

The new navy of the United States / by N.L. Stebbins; introduction by the admiral of the navy, George Dewey, U.S.N.; with a supplement on the Revenue cutter service, and an article by Captain Preston H. Uberroth, R.C.S.

[158] p. : ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore, 1847-

GUSN: 150922

Call Number: Stacks VA59.S85

The yachtsman's album : containing portraits of two hundred and forty yachts, representing all classes. Reproduced from photographs, with a descriptive index. / Published by N. L. Stebbins, Boston, Mass. 1896

No description

Date: 1896

Creators: Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore, 1847-

GUSN: 150923

Call Number: Rare GV821.S8

The last men of the Revolution. A photograph of each from life, together with views of their homes printed in colors. Accompanied by brief biographical sketches of the men, by Rev. E. B. Hillard.

64 p. col. plates, ports. 19 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Hillard, Elias Brewster, 1825-1895.

GUSN: 150924

Call Number: Rare E206.H54

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies / by W. Winterbotham.

590 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, port. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1796.

Creators: Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829.

GUSN: 150925

Call Number: Rare E18.W79 1796 vol.1

The history of New-England : containing an impartial account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the country to the year of Our Lord, 1700 ; To which is added, The present state of New-England : with a new and accurate map of the country, and an appendix containing their present charter, their ecclesiastical discipline and their municipal-laws / by Daniel Neal.

x, 330 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1720.

Creators: Neal, Daniel, 1678-1743.

GUSN: 150926

Call Number: Rare F7.N43 vol.1

Mount Desert, on the coast of Maine ... By Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin.

[10], [9]-95, [9] p. 5 mounted phot. (incl. front.) fold. map. 19 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Martin, Clara Barnes, d. 1886. Loring, Short & Harmon, Portland, Me., pub.

GUSN: 150927

Call Number: Rare F27.M9 M3

Mt. Desert in 1873 : portrayed in crayon and quill.

15 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: [1873]

Creators: Mount Desert Island.

GUSN: 150928

Call Number: Stacks F27.M9 M68 1873

The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

1 p.¾., 14 p. 32 cm.

Date: 1759.

Creators: Massachusetts.

GUSN: 150929

Call Number: Rare KFM2430 1759.A2

Continuation of the history of the province of Massachusetts bay, from the year 1748. With an introductory sketch of events from its original settlement / by George Richards Minot.

2 v. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1798,1803.

Creators: Minot, George Richards, 1758-1802.

GUSN: 150930

Call Number: Rare F67.M66 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The history of the county of Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts : with a particular account of every town from its first settlement to the present time : including its ecclesiastical state, together with a geographical description of the same : to which is prefixed a map of the county, at large, from actual survey / by Peter Whitney.

vi, 339 p. : 1 folded map, port. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1793.

Creators: Whitney, Peter, 1744-1816

GUSN: 150931

Call Number: Rare F72.W9 W45 1793

Homes of our forefathers in Boston, Old England, and Boston, New England. From original drawings by Edwin Whitefield.

84 p. col. front., col. pl. 26 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin.

GUSN: 150932

Call Number: Rare F73.37.W59

Collection of facts and documents relative to the project of a bridge from South Street in Boston to Dorchester Neck : and the annexation of that peninsula to the town of Boston.

62 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1805.

GUSN: 150933

Call Number: Rare AC901.B3 vol. 65

Poetic localities of Cambridge. Ed. by W. J. Stillman. Illustrated with heliotypes from nature.

41 p. front., 11 pl. 25 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Stillman, William James, 1828-1901, ed.

GUSN: 150934

Call Number: Rare PN6110.P7 C4

Waltham, past and present ; and its industries : with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1738.

152 p. : plates, ports. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Nelson, Charles Alexander.

GUSN: 150935

Call Number: Rare F74.W2 N4

Plans and sections of the obelisk on Bunker's hill. With the details of experiments made in quarrying the granite.

31 p. illus. 35 cm.

Date: 1843.

Creators: Willard, S. (Solomon)

GUSN: 150936

Call Number: Rare NA9350.B6 W5 1843

Acts and laws, passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England.

163 p. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1726.

Creators: New Hampshire (Colony) New Hampshire. General Assembly.

GUSN: 150937

Call Number: Rare KFN1225.2 1726

Chronicles of the first planters of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1636. Now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes. By Alexander Young...

viii, 571 p. port., map. 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Young, Alexander, 1800-1854.

GUSN: 150938

Call Number: Rare F67.Y68

Newport: our social capital, by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer. With frontispiece in color by Henry Hutt, many illustrations in photogravure and double-tone and from drawings by Edward Stratton Holloway.

401 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Van Rensselaer, May, 1848-1925.

GUSN: 150939

Call Number: Rare F89.N5 V2

Horace Walpole, a memoir : with an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill press / By Austin Dobson.

333 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: [c1890]

Creators: Dobson, Austin 1840-1921.

GUSN: 150940

Call Number: Rare Browne DA483.W2 D6 1890a

A new critical pronouncing dictionary of the English language ... To which will be prefixed, Mr. Walker's principles of English pronunciation ... Compiled from authors of the most approved reputation: with considerable additions. By an American gentleman ...

xiv, 85, [941] p. 26 cm.

Date: 1813.

Creators: Coxe, Richard S. (Richard Smith), 1792-1865. Walker, John, 1732-1807.

GUSN: 150941

Call Number: Rare PE1620.C75

A valuable assistant to every man: or, The American clerk's magazine. Containing the most useful and necessary forms of writings, which commonly occur between man and man, under the names of acquittances, affidavits ... By Samuel Freeman.

294 p. 18 cm.

Date: 1802.

Creators: Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831.

GUSN: 150942

Call Number: Rare KF170.F74 1802

An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great-Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs ... / By N. Bailey ...

[912] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo in 4s)

Date: 1773.

Creators: Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742.

GUSN: 150943

Call Number: Rare PE1620.B3 1773

The royal standard English dictionary : in which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, and their part of speech properly distinguished, but likewise, by a key to this work ... : to which is added the Scripture proper names ... / by William Perry.

xii, 516 p. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1806.

Creators: Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh. E. Merriam & Co.

GUSN: 150944

Call Number: Rare PE1620.P43 1806

The Toppans of Toppan's Lane : with their descendants and relations / collected and arranged by Joshua Coffin.

30 p. : geneal. tables ; 22 cm.

Date: 1862.

Creators: Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864.

GUSN: 150945

Call Number: Rare CS71. T175 1862

A critical pronouncing dictionary of the English language ... To which will be prefixed, Mr. Walker's principles of English pronunciation ... Compiled from authors of the most approved reputation: with considerable additions. By an American gentleman ...

xiv, 85, [941] p. 26 cm.

Date: 1813.

Creators: Coxe, Richard S. (Richard Smith), 1792-1865. Walker, John, 1732-1807.

GUSN: 150946

Call Number: Rare PE1620.C75

Perspectivae pictorum atque architectorum, I.[-II.] pars ... = Der Mahler und Baumeister Perspectiv, erster [-zweyter] Theil ... / inventa, designata & primáum edita Romae áa Fr. Andrea Puteo ... hac forma concinnata áa Joanne Boxbarth.

2 v. : ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [1709?].

Creators: Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709. Boxbarth, Johann, 18th cent.

GUSN: 150947

Call Number: Rare NC749.P8 pt.2

Trois siáecles de papiers peints / Eugene Claudius Petis.

135 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Musâee des beaux-arts de Rennes. Union centrale des arts dâecoratifs (Paris, France)

GUSN: 150948

Call Number: Stacks NK3380.R4

Old time wall papers; an account of the pictorial papers on our forefathers' walls, with a study of the historical development of wall paper making and decoration, by Kate Sanborn.

xiv, p., 1 ¾., 116 p., 1 ¾. illus. LXXXIII (i. e. 62) pl. (part col., incl. col. front.) 30 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917.

GUSN: 150949

Call Number: Stacks NK3400.S2 c.1 (and 3 more)

Oeuvres d'architecture : contenant les desseins tant en plans qu'en elevations, des principaux, & des plus nouveaux batimens dans le dernier agrandissement de la ville d'Amsterdam & autres endroits de ces provinces / ordonnez par Philippe Vingboons ...

2 v. in 1 : ill., plans ; 41 cm.

Date: 1715.

Creators: Vingboons, Philips, 17th cent.

GUSN: 150950

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7363.A4 V5 vol.1

The carpenter's treasure; : a collection of designs for temples, with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the Gothic taste; with the centres at large, for striking Gothic curves and mouldings; and some specimens of rails, in the Chinese taste: forming a complete system for rural decorations. / Neatly engraved on sixteen plates, from the original drawings of N. Wallis, architect.

[4] p., XVI leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 29 cm. (fol.)

Date: [1773]

Creators: Wallis, N.

GUSN: 150951

Call Number: Stacks NA8450.W35 1773

A collection of designs for modern embellishments suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, folding doors, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes, &c. on 25 plates, by C.A. Busby.

25 plates (partly col.) 24 cm.

Date: [1808?]

Creators: Busby, Charles Augustus, 1788-1834.

GUSN: 150952

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2135.B9

The decorative arts : their relation to modern life and progress : an address delivered before the Trades' Guild of Learning / by William Morris.

50 p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Morris, William, 1834-1896.

GUSN: 150953

Call Number: Rare NK1132.M8 1878b

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