Historic New England

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

Vermont : a guide to the Green Mountain state / written by workers of the Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration for the state of Vermont ; sponsored by the Vermont State Planning Board.

392 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Federal Writers' Project. Vermont.

GUSN: 151163

Call Number: Stacks F49.F34 1937

Catalogue of the principal officers of Vermont : as connected with its political history, from 1778 to 1851 / with some biographical notices, &c., by Leonard Deming.

208 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Deming, Leonard, 1787-1853.

GUSN: 151164

Call Number: Stacks F48.D38 1851

Biennial directory for the use of the General Assembly ... / prepared pursuant to acts of the General Assembly by ... Secretary of State. Manual of parliamentary practice by ... Secretary of the Senate. (Biennial)

4 v. : ill., maps. : 17 cm.

Date: -1876.

Creators: Vermont. Office of Secretary of State.

GUSN: 151165

Call Number: Stacks JK3031.V4 1870

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

95 p. 29 cm.

Date: 1966.

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

GUSN: 151166

Call Number: Stacks F52.U5 1966

Vermont marriages.

92 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1967.

GUSN: 151167

Call Number: Stacks F48.V56 vol.1

Albany Institute of History & Art : 200 years of collecting / edited by Tammis K. Groft and Mary Alice Mackay ; with an introduction by Christine M. Miles.

332 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Groft, Tammis Kane. Mackay, Mary Alice, 1950- Albany Institute of History and Art.

GUSN: 151168

Call Number: Coll. N6530.N72 H843 1998

China and glass in America, 1880-1980 : from tabletop to TV tray / Charles L. Venable ... [et al.] ; photography by Tom Jenkins.

496 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Venable, Charles L. (Charles Lane), 1960- Jenkins, Tom, 1953- Dallas Museum of Art. Newark Museum.

GUSN: 151169

Call Number: Coll. NK4695.T33 C58 2000 (and 1 more)

'An invitation to tea' : an exhibition of antique related tea equipage at Witney Antiques ... Thursday November 21st to Wednesday 11th December 1991 ...

79 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1991.

Creators: Witney Antiques.

GUSN: 151170

Call Number: Coll. TX736.I56

French textiles : from the Middle Ages through the Second Empire / edited by Marianne Carlano and Larry Salmon.

197 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1985.

Creators: Carlano, Marianne. Salmon, Larry. Wadsworth Atheneum.

GUSN: 151171

Call Number: Coll. NK8849.F74 1985

Scottish woodwork of the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries : measured and drawn for the stone / by John William Small.

100 leaves of plates : ill. ; 44 cm.

Date: 1898.

Creators: Small, John William.

GUSN: 151172

Call Number: Ovr. NK2260.F87 1898

Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804 / by Bayard Tuckerman.

4 p. ¾., 277 p. : ill., map, port., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Tuckerman, Bayard, 1855-1923.

GUSN: 151373

Call Number: Stacks E207.S3 T8

Guy Hamilton Scull, soldier, writer, explorer and war correspondent / comp. and with an introduction by Henry Jay Case.

xviii p., 1 ¾., 267 p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm.

Date: 1922.

Creators: Case, Henry Jay.

GUSN: 151374

Call Number: Stacks CT275.S39 C3

Catherine Schuyler / by Mary Gay Humphreys ...

xi, 251 p. : front. port. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Humphreys, Mary Gay, d. 1915.

GUSN: 151375

Call Number: Stacks E207.S31 H9

Samuel E. Sewall; a memoir, by Nina Moore Tiffany.

175 p. front., port. 20 cm.

Date: 1898.

Creators: Tiffany, Nina Moore.

GUSN: 151376

Call Number: Stacks E449.T565

Lemuel Shaw : Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1830-1860 / Frederick Hathaway Chase.

vi, 330 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1918.

Creators: Chase, Frederic Hathaway, 1870-1948.

GUSN: 151377

Call Number: Stacks KF368.S53 C5 1918

Beacon Hill's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw / by Marion Whitney Smith.

512 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Smith, Marion Whitney.

GUSN: 151378

Call Number: Stacks F73.25.S64 1986

Life of Asa G. Sheldon : Wilmington farmer.

374 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1959.

Creators: Sheldon, Asa, 1788-1870.

GUSN: 151379

Call Number: Stacks CT275.S462 A3 1959

Reminiscences of early anti-slavery days / by Sarah H. Southwick.

39 p. : facsims. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Southwick, Sarah H., 1821-

GUSN: 151380

Call Number: Stacks E449.S73

The military services and public life of Major-General John Sullivan : of the American Revolutionary army / by Thomas C. Amory.

320 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Amory, Thomas C. (Thomas Coffin), 1812-1889.

GUSN: 151381

Call Number: Stacks E207.S9 A55 1868

Life of James Sullivan : with selections from his writings / By Thomas C. Amory...

2 v. : front. (port.) ; 23 cm.

Date: 1859.

Creators: Amory, Thomas C. (Thomas Coffin), 1812-1889.

GUSN: 151382

Call Number: Stacks F69.S94 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Memoir of Increase Sumner, governor of Massachusetts. By his son William H. Sumner. Together with a genealogy of the Sumner family. Prepared for the New England historical and genealogical register.

70 p. front. (port.) illus., facsims. 24 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Sumner, William H. (William Hyslop), 1780-1861. Trask, William Blake, 1812-1906.

GUSN: 151383

Call Number: Stacks CS71.S956 1854

Memorial addresses on the life and character of James Sumner, delivered at Commercial hall ... Boston ... November 10, 1895. With his last address / Reported by Miss Helen J. Wescott ...

52 p. : ill., port. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1895.

GUSN: 151384

Call Number: Stacks CT275.S66 M3

From 'prentice to patron : the life story of Isaiah Thomas / cby Annie Russell Marble.

xii, 326 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1935.

Creators: Marble, Annie Russell, 1864-1936.

GUSN: 151385

Call Number: Stacks Z232.T4 M3

Memorial of Eliza Butler Thompson / by her daughter.

172 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Spring, Elizabeth Thompson.

GUSN: 151386

Call Number: Stacks BX7260.T5 S6 1879

The Varick court of inquiry to investigate the implication of Colonel Varick (Arnold's private secretary) in the Arnold treason / ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart.

215 p. : front. (port.) illus., fold. facsims. 25 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Varick, Richard, 1753-1831, defendant. Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943. United States. Army. Courts of Inquiry. Varick. Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.)

GUSN: 151387

Call Number: Stacks E236.V29

Memoir of Mary L. Ware : wife of Henry Ware, jr. / By Edward B. Hall. 3d thousand.

vii, 434 p. : front. (port.) ; 21 cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Hall, Edward B. (Edward Brooks), 1800-1866.

GUSN: 151388

Call Number: Stacks BX9869.W35 H3 1853

The life of John Collins Warren, M.D. : compiled chiefly from his autobiography and journals / by Edward Warren.

2 v. : fronts., plates, ports ; 24 cm.

Date: 1860.

Creators: Warren, Edward, 1804-1878.

GUSN: 151389

Call Number: Stacks R154.W26 W2 vol.1

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