Historic New England

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

The dedication of the Bennington Battle Monument : and celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the admission of Vermont as a state, at Bennington, August 19, A. D., 1891, with an historic introduction and appendices / Pub. by authority of the Centennial Committee.

viii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1892-[98]

Creators: Stillson, H. L. (Henry Leonard) Vermont Centennial Commission. Bennington Battle Monument and Historical Association.

GUSN: 151250

Call Number: Stacks E241.B4 V6

Brattleboro: selected historical vignettes [by] John N. Houpis, Jr.

64 p. illus. 18 x 26 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: Houpis, John N.

GUSN: 151251

Call Number: Stacks F59.B8 H68

Picturesque Brattleboro : with over two hundred illustrations.

96 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1894.

Creators: Pomeroy, Frank T.

GUSN: 151252

Call Number: Stacks F59.B8 P7

Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain / by Joseph Auld. One hundred and sixty-four illustrations.

xiv, 190 p. : front., ill., plates, map ; 23 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Auld, Joseph, 1848-1921.

GUSN: 151253

Call Number: Stacks F59.B9 A9 1894

Early houses of Norwich, Vermont / [by] Philip Aylwin White [and] Dana Doane Johnson, edited by Hugh S. Morrison.

vii, 51 p. ill., map, plates, plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 1938.

Creators: White, Philip Aylwin, 1915- Morrison, Hugh, 1905- Johnson, Dana Doane, 1914-

GUSN: 151254

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7238.N7 W5 1938

Burning of Royalton, Vermont, by Indians : a careful research of all that pertains to the subject, including a reprint of Zadock Steele's narrative, also a complete account of the various anniversaries and the placing of a monument commemorating the event, has herein been made, by Ivah Dunklee...

88 p. plates, ports. (incl. front.) 25 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Dunklee, Ivah. Steele, Zadock, b. 1758.

GUSN: 151255

Call Number: Stacks F59.R74 D9

Shelburne Farms, the history of an agricultural estate / William C. Lipke, editor.

79 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Lipke, William C. Robert Hull Fleming Museum.

GUSN: 151256

Call Number: Stacks S451.V5 S53

The town of St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; a review of one hundred twenty-five years to the anniversary pageant 1912, by Edward T. Fairbanks...

592 p. front., pl., ports. 24 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Fairbanks, Edward T. (Edward Taylor), 1836-1919. Daughters of the American Revolution. Vermont. St. John de Crevecoeur Chapter, St. Johnsbury.

GUSN: 151257

Call Number: Stacks F59.S12 F16

One of a thousand, a series of biographical sketches of one thousand representative men resident in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89 / comp. under the editorial supervision of John C. Rand.

4 p.l., 707 p. : ill., ports., facsim. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1890.

Creators: Rand, John C. (John Clark), b. 1842 ed.

GUSN: 151258

Call Number: 85M Ref. F63.R18

Biographical encyclopedia of Massachusetts of the nineteenth century.

iii, 472, v p., 71 ¾. of plates : ill., ports. ; 31 cm.

Date: 1879, c1877.

GUSN: 151259

Call Number: Ref. F63.B54

Our famous women : an authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times.

715 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1885.

GUSN: 151260

Call Number: Ref. CT3260.O7 1885

Woman's record; or, Sketches of all distinguished women : from the creation to A.D. 1854. Arranged in four eras. With selections from female writers of every age / by Sarah Josepha Hale. Illustrated by two hundred and thirty portraits, engraved on wood by Lossing and Barritt.

xlviii, 17-912 p. : front. (port.) ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1860.

Creators: Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879.

GUSN: 151261

Call Number: Ref. CT3202.H3 1860

The American geneologist, being a catalogue of family histories. A bibliography of American genealogy, or a list of the title pages of books and pamphlets on family history, published in America, from 1771 to date.

406 p. 27 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Whitmore, William Henry, 1836-1900. Munsell, firm, publishers.

GUSN: 151262

Call Number: Stacks Z5313.U5 W61

Topographical dictionary of 2885 English emigrants to New England, 1620-1650 / Edited and indexed by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell.

295 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1963.

Creators: Banks, Charles Edward, 1854-1931.

GUSN: 151263

Call Number: Ref. F3.B35 1963

The planters of the Commonwealth : a study of the emigrants and emigration in colonial times: to which are added lists of passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the ships which brought them; their English homes and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640 / by Charles Edward Banks.

xiii, 231 p. : maps. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1961.

Creators: Banks, Charles Edward, 1854-1931.

GUSN: 151264

Call Number: Ref. F67.B19 1961

Soldiers in King Philip's war : being a critical account of that war, with a concise history of the Indian wars of New England from 1620-1677, official lists of the soldiers of Massachusetts colony serving in Philip's war, and sketches of the principal officers, copies of ancient documents and records relating to the war, also lists of the Narraganset grantees of the united colonies, Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Connecticut; with an appendix, 3d ed., with additional appendix containing corrections and new material / by George Madison Bodge.

xiii, [1], 502 p. : ill., port., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Bodge, George M. (George Madison), 1841-1914.

GUSN: 151265

Call Number: Stacks E83.67.B662

Biographical notices of distinguished men in New England: statesmen, patriots, physicians, lawyers, clergymen, and mechanics. By Alden Bradford ...

464 p. 19 cm.

Date: 1842.

Creators: Bradford, Alden, 1765-1843.

GUSN: 151266

Call Number: Stacks F4.B78

New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars, by Emma Lewis Coleman ...

2 v. fronts., illus. (map, facsim.) plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Coleman, Emma Lewis.

GUSN: 151267

Call Number: Stacks E85.C72 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Famous families of Massachusetts / by Mary Caroline Crawford ...

2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932.

GUSN: 151268

Call Number: Ref. F63.C89 v.1 (and 1 more)

Dictionary of American biography, including men of the time; containing nearly ten thousand notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history of the American continent. Giving also the pronunciation of many of the foreign and peculiar American names, a key to the assumed names of writers, and a supplement. By Francis S. Drake.

x, 1019 p. 27 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885.

GUSN: 151269

Call Number: Ref. E176.D72

National portrait gallery of eminent Americans: including orators, statesmen, naval and military heroes, jurists, authors, etc., etc., from ... paintings by Alonzo Chappel. With biographical and historical narratives, by Evert A. Duyckinck ...

2 v. ill., ports. 28 cm.

Date: [1862]

Creators: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878.

GUSN: 151270

Call Number: Stacks E176.D98 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A biographical dictionary, containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New England / by John Eliot, D.D., corresponding secretary of the Massachusetts historical society.

viii, 511 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1809.

Creators: Eliot, John, 1754-1813.

GUSN: 151271

Call Number: Stacks F3.E42

Heralds of a liberal faith.

4 v. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1910-[52]

Creators: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950.

GUSN: 151272

Call Number: Stacks BX9867.E4 vol.1 (and 3 more)

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)

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