Historic New England

The rudiments of architecture, being a treatise on practical geometry, on Grecian and Roman mouldings; shewing the best method of drawing their curves, with remarks on the effect of both. Also, on the origin of building, on the five orders of architecture, on their general and particular parts and embellishments, with examples for cornices, base and surbase mouldings, architraves and stairs, correctly engraved on thirty-four copperplates. By Asher Benjamin.

96 p. ill., plates (2 fold.) 22 cm.

Date: 1820.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151088

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B5 1820

The American builder's general price book and estimator : to elucidate the principles of acertaining the correct value of every description of artificers' work required in building ... in any part of New England ... to which are added a variety of useful tables, memoranda, etc.

130, [2], 78, [1] p. incl. tables ; 22 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Gallier, James, b. 1798.

GUSN: 151089

Call Number: Rare TH435.G35 1836

The American builder's companion, or, A new system of architecture : particularly adapted to the present style of building in the United States of America ... / by Asher Benjamin and Daniel Raynard.

70 p. : ill., plates ; 27 cm.

Date: 1806

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845. Raynerd, Daniel

GUSN: 151090

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2610.B4 1806

The American builder's companion, or, A system of architecture particluarly adapted to the present style of building : treating on practical geometry, the origin of building ... / by Asher Benjamin.

iv, [2] p., pp. [5]-104 p., [1] p., [82] p. of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1811.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151091

Call Number: Rare NA2610.B4 1811 c.1 (and 1 more)

The American builder's companion, or, A new system of architecture ... / by Asher Benjamin.

iv, 102 p. : ill., plates ; 27 cm.

Date: 1816.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151092

Call Number: Rare NA2610.B4 1816

The American builder's companion, or, A new system of architecture ... / by Asher Benjamin.

iv, 106 p. : ill., plates ; 27 cm.

Date: 1826.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151093

Call Number: Rare NA2610.B4 1826

The builder's guide : illustrated by sixty-six engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture and other elements of the art. Designed for the use of builders, particularly of carpenters and joiners / by Asher Benjamin.

82 p., [66] leaves of plates : ill., diagrs. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1838,1839 printing.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151094

Call Number: Rare NA2815.B4

The country builder's assistant, fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings: for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders ... Plans and elevations of houses ... Also, the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular soffits in circular walls, &c. Correctly engraved on thirty-seven plates, with a printed explanation to each.

[36] p. 37 plates. 21 cm.

Date: 1798.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151095

Call Number: Rare NA2520.B4

The country builder's assistant : fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings ... correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each / by Asher Benjamin.

[36] p., [1], 37 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., plans ; 20 cm.

Date: 1805.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151096

Call Number: Rare NA2520.B4 1805

The practical house carpenter / by Asher Benjamin.

119 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151097

Call Number: Rare NA2520.B45 1832

The rudiments of architecture : being a treatise on practical geometry, on Grecian and Roman mouldings; shewing the best method of drawing their curves, with remarks on the effect of both. Also, on the origin of building, on the five orders of architecture, on their general and particular parts and embellishments, with examples for cornices, base and surbase mouldings, architraves and stairs / by Asher Benjamin.

96 p. : 32 plates (1 fold.; incl. diagrs.) ; 22 cm.

Date: 1814.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151098

Call Number: Rare NA2520.B5 1814

De la distribution des maisons de plaisance , et de la dâecoration des edifices en general / par Jacques Franðcois Blondel.

2 v. : ill., front., plates (some fold.); 29cm.

Date: 1737.

Creators: Blondel, Jacques Franðcois, 1705-1774.

GUSN: 151099

Call Number: Rare Browne NA1041.B56 1737 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Domestic architecture : containing a history of the science, and the principles of designing public edifices, private dwelling-houses, country mansions, and suburban villas ... ; also, some observations on rural residences, their characteristic situation and scenery ; with instructions on the art of laying out and ornamenting grounds ... / by Richard Brown ...

xii, 342 p., 63 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1852.

Creators: Brown, Richard, architect.

GUSN: 151100

Call Number: Rare NA961.B86 1852

Architecture pratique ... avec une explication et une confâerence de trente-six articles de la coutume de Paris, sur le titre des servitudes & rapports qui concernent les bãatimens & de l'ordonnance de 1673.

xxxij, 616 p., ill. ; cm.

Date: 1768.

Creators: Bullet, Pierre, 1639?-1716.

GUSN: 151101

Call Number: Rare TH145.B78 1768

Practical perspective : or, An easy method of representing natural objects, according to the rules of art / written in French by a Jesuit of Paris. Tr. by E. Chambers...To which is prefixed, The theory of perspective, by James Hodgson...

xxx, 150 p. : 154 plates ; 27 cm.

Date: [1780?]

Creators: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602-1670. Chambers, Ephraim, 1680 (ca.)-1740, tr. Hodgson, James, 1672-1755.

GUSN: 151102

Call Number: Rare NC749.D814 1780

Civil architecture / by William Chambers.

vi, 137 p. : plates ; 26 cm.

Date: 1781]

Creators: Chambers, William.

GUSN: 151103

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2522.C53 1781

A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture / by Sir William Chambers ; with illustrations, notes, and an examination of Grecian architecture, by Joseph Gwilt.

p. 255-514 : ill., plates

Date: 1825.

Creators: Chambers, William, Sir, 1726-1796. Gwilt, Joseph.

GUSN: 151104

Call Number: Rare NA3321.C5 1825 vol.2

How to build, furnish & decorate / Consisting of elevations and plans for houses, barns, and every description of outbuilding, accompanied with clear and concise instructions; also, a complete treatise on house furnishing and decoration.

[106], 38, [60], 20 p. : ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: c1883.

Creators: Co-operative Building Plan Association.

GUSN: 151105

Call Number: Stacks NA8301.C66

Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa; calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life. Engraved on 70 copper plates, with reference and explanation of the use of every room, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurements.

vi, 26 p. 70 (i.e. 56) plates (part fold.; incl. plans ) 28 cm.

Date: 1791.

Creators: Crunden, John, ca. 1745-1835.

GUSN: 151106

Call Number: Rare Browne NA7132.C7 1791 c.1 (and 1 more)

Maniere de rendre toutes sortes d'âedifices incombustibles; ou, Traitâe sur la construction des voutes, faites avec des briques & du plãatre, dites voutes plates; & d'un toit de brique, sans charpente, appellâe comble briquetâe.

80 p. 2 fold. plans.

Date: 1754.

Creators: Espiâe, Fâelix Franðcois, comte d', 1708-1792.

GUSN: 151107

Call Number: Rare TH1069.E8

A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs.

xxv, 150 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 49 cm.

Date: 1728.

Creators: Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.

GUSN: 151108

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2620.G5 1728

Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture, in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

[8], ii, 40 p., LXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 47 cm. (fol.)

Date: 1738.

Creators: Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.

GUSN: 151109

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2699.G52 1738

Rural architecture in the Chinese taste : being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen : also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected / the whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Jnn. Halfpenny ...

4 pt. in 1 v. : 64 pl. (part fold.)

Date: 1755.

Creators: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.

GUSN: 151110

Call Number: Rare Browne NA8450.H17

Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors & windows, taken from Inigo Jones & other celebrated architects : to each plate, tables containing the exact proportions of the several parts, are likewise fitted : very useful to all true lovers of architecture, but particularly so to those who are engaged in the noble art of building / by William Halfpenny.

48 p., [26] leaves : ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.

GUSN: 151111

Call Number: Rare NA2810.H35

A series of select and original modern designs for dwelling houses, for the use of carpenters and builders: adapted to the style of building in the United States: with twenty-four plates. By John Hall ...

31, [1] p. 24 plates 29 cm.

Date: 1848.

Creators: Hall, John, architect.

GUSN: 151112

Call Number: Rare Browne NA7201.H25

The carpenters' and builders' guide : being a handbook for workmen, also a manual of reference for contractors, builders, etc. / by George A. Hall.

48 p., 4 p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Hall, George A.

GUSN: 151113

Call Number: Rare TH5607.H35 1870a

The builder's guide : a practical treatise on Grecian and Roman architecture, together with specimens of the Gothic style : also, practical treatises on geometry, decimal fractions, mensuration, trigonometry, and carpentry and joinery / by Chester Hills ; revised and improved with additions of villa and school-house architecture by H. Austin and Henry Barnard.

96 p., 50 leaves of plates (part double) : ill. ; 38 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Hills, Chester. Austin, Henry, 1804-1891. Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900.

GUSN: 151114

Call Number: Rare TH145.H5 1846

Treatises on architecture and building. From the Encyclopaedia Britannica; seventh edition. With twenty-six engravings.

105 p. 28 plates (incl. plans, diagrs.) 29 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Hosking, William, 1800-1861.

GUSN: 151115

Call Number: Rare NA2520.T7y 1832

The gentleman's and builder's repository; or, Architecture displayed ... The designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole.

4 p. l., 99, [1] p. front., illus. (incl. diagrs.) LXXXIV plates, 2 diagrs. on 1 l. 26 cm.

Date: 1738.

Creators: Hoppus, E. (Edward), d. 1739.

GUSN: 151116

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2810.H6 1738

Designs for parsonage houses, alms houses, etc.etc. with examples of gables, and other curious remains of old English architecture, by T.F. Hunt ...

vi p., 1 ¾., 34 p. xxi pl. (incl. plans.) 31 x 25 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hunt, Thomas F.

GUSN: 151117

Call Number: Rare NA2620.H8

Half a dozen hints on picturesque domestic architecture, in a series of designs for gate lodges, gamekeepers' cottages, and other rural residences. By T. F. Hunt ...

[34] p. 14 pl. (incl. plans) 31 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hunt, Thomas F.

GUSN: 151118

Call Number: Rare NA8302.H9

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy : both in theory and practice. In two books ... / by Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

2 v. in 1. : ill., plates, diagrs. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1755.

Creators: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774 Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731 Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 151119

Call Number: Rare NC749.K55

Portes cocháeres, portes d'entrâee, croisâees, balcons, entablemens et dâetails de menuiserie et de serrurerie des âedifices les plus remarquables de Paris. A l'usage des architectes et des amateurs. Par J. Ch. Krafft.

36 p. 50 plates. 27 x 36 cm.

Date: 1810.

Creators: Krafft, J. Ch. (Jean-Charles), 1764-1833.

GUSN: 151120

Call Number: Rare NA1050.K89

The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs; or : the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture ... / with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... To which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio, by B.L.

24 p. : [200] leaves of plates ; cm.

Date: 1756.]

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

GUSN: 151121

Call Number: Rare NA3310.L3 1756 (and 1 more)

A sure guide to builders or, the principles ... of architecture ... made easy for the use of workmen ... : to which is added, and appendix wherein the ... Acts of Parliament ... relating to builders ... are explained ...

[16], 179 p. : plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1729.

Creators: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

GUSN: 151122

Call Number: Stacks NA961.L36 1729

America's jubilee /Andrew Burstein.

xiv, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., "On July 4, 1826, the United States celebrated its fiftieth birthday with parades and speeches across the country. But what ultimately sanctified the national jubilee in the minds of the celebrants was an extraordinary coincidence: the nearly simultaneous deaths of...

Date: 2001

Creators: Burstein, Andrew.

GUSN: 259745

Call Number: Stacks E285.B88 2001

Bodies of belief :Baptist community in early America /Janet Moore Lindman.

270 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Lindman, Janet Moore.

GUSN: 259746

Call Number: Stacks BX6233.L56 2008

The scrapbook in American life /edited by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler.

x, 332 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Tucker, Susan, 1950- Ott, Katherine. Buckler, Patricia.

GUSN: 259747

Call Number: Stacks TR465.S393453 2005

The slate roof bible /Joseph C. Jenkins.

316 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Jenkins, Joseph C.

GUSN: 259748

Call Number: Stacks TH2445.J45 2003

Manufacturing the muse :Estey organs & consumer culture in Victorian America /Dennis G. Waring.

xix, 356 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: c2002.

Creators: Waring, Dennis, 1944- Estey Organ Company.

GUSN: 259749

Call Number: Stacks ML597.W37 2002

Plastering skills /F. Van Den Branden, Thomas L. Hartsell ; With the collaboration of Old House Journal.

543 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., Intended as a guide for apprentice and journeyman professionals covering plastering and closely related building trades.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Van Den Branden, Felicien, 1907- Hartsell, Thomas L. Van Den Branden, Felicien, 1907- Plastering skill and practice.

GUSN: 259750

Call Number: Stacks TH8131.V25 1971

Out of tin boxes /by Carlton Bradford.

viii, 338 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 2001?]

Creators: Bradford, Carlton, 1926-

GUSN: 259751

Call Number: Stacks CT274.H378 B73 2001

The times of their lives :life, love, and death in Plymouth Colony /James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz.

xvi, 366 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., "The Times of Their Lives presents a realistic, factual account of the Plymouth colony based on contemporary archaeology, cultural research, and living history. Taking little known trial transcripts, personal accounts, wills, and probate records, as well as physica...

Date: c2000.

Creators: Deetz, James. Deetz, Patricia E. Scott

GUSN: 259752

Call Number: Stacks F68.D4 2000

Whose muse? :art museums and the public trust /James Cuno, editor ; with essays by Neil MacGregor ... [et al.].

208 p. : ill., port., plan.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Cuno, James B. MacGregor, Neil, 1946-

GUSN: 259753

Call Number: Stacks N430.W48 2003

A passion to preserve :gay men as keepers of culture /Will Fellows.

x, 288 p. ; 23 cm., From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings, revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, saving artifacts and documents of historical significance. This penchant to preserve, though ...

Date: c2004.

Creators: Fellows, Will.

GUSN: 259754

Call Number: Stacks HQ75.7.F45 2004

The paradise of all these parts :a natural history of Boston /John Hanson Mitchell.

xiii, 254 p. ; 23 cm., In 1614, explorer John Smith sailed into what was to become Boston Harbor and referred to the wild lands and waters around him as "the Paradise of all these parts". Within fifteen years, the Puritans were developing the tadpole shaped Shawmut Peninsula, as members of the Mass...

Date: c2008.

Creators: Mitchell, John Hanson.

GUSN: 259755

Call Number: Stacks QH105.M4 M58 2008

Beyond the architect's eye :photographs and the American built environment /Mary N. Woods.

xxxiii, 317 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Woods, Mary N., 1950-

GUSN: 259756

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR659.W66 2009

A guide to historic Plymouth /James Baker.

142 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Baker, James W.

GUSN: 259757

Call Number: Stacks F74.P8 B35 2008

Maple sugarin' in Vermont :a sweet history /Betty Ann Lockhart.

192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Lockhart, Betty Ann. Lockhart, Don.

GUSN: 259758

Call Number: Stacks TP395.L63 2008

Piety and dissent :race, gender, and biblical rhetoric in early American autobiography /Eileen Razzari Elrod.

xii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Elrod, Eileen Razzari.

GUSN: 259759

Call Number: Stacks BR515.E47 2008

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