Historic New England

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

Maria Longworth Storer :from music and art to popes and presidents /Constance J. Moore, Nancy M. Broermann.

xxi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents tells the story of one of Cincinnati's most prominent women activists and socialites, Maria Longworth Storer. A philanthropist and talented artist, known as the founder of Rookwood Pottery, Ma...

Creators: Moore, Constance J., author. Broermann, Nancy, 1950- author. University of Cincinnati. Press.

GUSN: 361429

Call Number: Stacks E748.S884 M66 2019

Lives of houses /edited by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee.

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm,

Creators: Kennedy, Kate, editor. Lee, Hermione, editor.

GUSN: 361430

Call Number: Stacks PN164.L58 2020

Twentieth-century building materials :history and conservation /edited with a new preface by Thomas C. Jester.

xv, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm, A guide to the materials used in architecture during the past century, as well as tips on building repair and restoration. With more than 200 illustrations, including a full-color photographic essay, it focuses on the history and conservation of mo...

Creators: Jester, Thomas C., editor. Tomlan, Michael A. Building modern America. Getty Conservation Institute,

GUSN: 361431

Call Number: Stacks TA403.6 .T87 2014

Boston's Apollo :Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent /edited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others].

256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm, "In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962), a young Black elevator attendant, at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller posed for most of the figures--both male and female--in Sargent'...

Creators: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, artist. Silver, Nathaniel E., editor, curator, contributor. Fisher, Paul, 1952- contributor. Greene, Nikki A. (Nikki Alma Rose), contributor. O'Grady, Lorraine, contributor. Hirschler, Erica E., contributor. Fairbrother, Trevor J., contributor. Riley, Casey (Curator), contributor. Tóibín, Colm, 1955- contributor. Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. Works. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,

GUSN: 361432

Call Number: Stacks N6537.S32 A4 2020

Larry Salk :California dreaming and the evolution of American fashion art, 1945-1965 /Frederic A. Sharf with Susan Ward.

62 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2007.

Creators: Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- Salk, Lawrence. Ward, Susan. Brigham and Women's Hospital. Sharf Admitting Center.

GUSN: 361433

Call Number: Coll TT509.S53 2007

Style and the city :New York city fashion art : two decades of advertising drawings : 1955-1975 /by Frederic A. Sharf with Morton Kaish and Alexandra B. Huff.

72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- Kaish, Morton, 1927- Huff, Alexandra B.

GUSN: 361434

Call Number: Coll NC998.5.N72 N489 2010

Figure, fabric, fantasy :five decades of American fashion drawing (1940s-1980s) : Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston /Alexandra B. Huff and Frederic A. Sharf with Phil French and Morton Kaish.

102 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm

Creators: Huff, Alexandra B., author. Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- author. French, Phil, author. Kaish, Morton, 1927- author. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

GUSN: 361435

Call Number: Coll TT509.H86 2012

Embroidered dreams :designs from the House of Madeleine & Madeleine : Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection /Emily Banis Stoehrer.

62 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã2014.

Creators: Stoehrer, Emily Banis. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 361436

Call Number: Coll TT505.M334 S76 2014

Maine and American art :the Farnsworth Art Museum /Michael K. Komanecky, Jane Bianco, Angela Waldron.

384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 x 25 cm, Published on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial, the book considers more than 200 major artworks of American art from the Farnsworth Art Museum's impressive holdings and details how the state has figured prominently in the development of Amer...

Creators: Komanecky, Michael, author. Bianco, Jane, author. Waldron, Angela, author. Farnsworth Art Museum.

GUSN: 361437

Call Number: Coll ND230.M2 K66 2020

Plans and views of public parks /Charles E. Beveridge, editor ; Lauren Meier, associate editor ; Irene Mills, assistant editor.

xiv, 429 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 x 29 cm.

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, designer. Beveridge, Charles E., editor. Meier, Lauren, editor. Mills, Irene. editor.

GUSN: 361448

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 F74 2015

Frederick Law Olmsted :plans and views of communities and private estates /Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills, editors.

xvii, 588 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 cm., Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in meeting other needs of society. Lavishly illustrated with over...

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author. Beveridge, Charles E., editor. Meier, Lauren, editor. Mills, Irene, editor.

GUSN: 361449

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 A3 2020

Asher Benjamin :American architect, author, artist /Bill Ranauro.

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, "From the rural backwater of Hartland, Connecticut, Asher Benjamin would rise to become one of the most important yet overlooked figures of American architecture in the first half of the nineteenth century. Taking inspiration from the neoclassical design...

Creators: Ranauro, Bill, author.

GUSN: 361450

Call Number: Stacks NA737.B46 R36 2021

Bunny Williams on garden style /written with Nancy Drew.

287 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm, In Bunny Williams on Garden Style , Williams visits impeccably designed gardens around the world, shedding light on the key components that make a garden so appealing and idyllic. For Williams, gardens offer an escape, and she imparts vital informatio...

Creators: Williams, Bunny, 1944- author. Drew, Nancy, 1948- author.

GUSN: 361451

Call Number: Stacks SB457.5 .W493 2015

Boston's oldest buildings and where to find them /Joseph M. Bagley.

222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, "A guidebook for Boston's 50 oldest buildings. Written in a conversational manner that does not bog the reader down in technical jargon, but allows them to see the history of Boston through the lens of its oldest structures whi...

Creators: Bagley, Joseph M., 1985- author.

GUSN: 361452

Call Number: Stacks F73.37 .B325 2021

Urban archipelago :an environmental history of the Boston Harbor Islands /Pavla Simková.

xi, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., "The Boston Harbor Islands have been called Boston's "hidden shores." While some are ragged rocks teeming with coastal wildlife, such as oystercatchers and harbor seals, others resemble manicured parks or have the appearance of wooded hills rising gently...

Creators: éSimková, Pavla, 1986- author.

GUSN: 361453

Call Number: Stacks GF504.M4 S56 2021

Lost towns of New England /Renee Mallet.

108 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm, "New England is home to abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. From villages sunk underwater to cities undone by the rise and fall of mill life, madness or just plain bad luck, these ghost towns offer a unique look into...

Creators: Mallet, Renee, author.

GUSN: 361454

Call Number: Stacks F4.M35 2021

Colonial Weymouth :the Forgotten Second Settlement /Mark Robert Schneider ; Maps by David Finney ; Photographs by Annemarie Reardon unless otherwise noted.

iii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Creators: Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948- author. Finney, David, mapmaker. Reardon, Annemarie, photographer.

GUSN: 361455

Call Number: Stacks F74.W77 S36 2021

The best ever! :Parades in New England, 1788-1940 /Jane C. Nylander.

xvi, 384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm, "Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skel...

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938- author.

GUSN: 361456

Call Number: Stacks GT4005.N95 2021

The citizen poets of Boston :a collection of forgotten poems, 1789-1820 /Paul Lewis, editor.

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Lewis, Paul, 1949- editor.

GUSN: 361457

Call Number: Stacks PS549.B6 C58 2016

Arts and crafts jewelry in Boston :Frank Gardner Hale and his circle /Nonie Gadsen, Meghan Melvin, Emily Stoehrer.

190 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm, "A vibrant and active community of jewelry makers at the turn of the century in Boston, united by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, created works of wearable art that came to define the 'Boston look' -- characterized by color...

Creators: Gadsden, Nonie, author. Melvin, Meghan, author. Stoehrer, Emily Banis, author. Snodgrass, Jennifer (Editor), editor. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

GUSN: 361458

Call Number: Coll NK7301.B67 M53 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

American history, art, and culture :writings in honor of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks /Pat Warner and Gerald W.R. Ward, editors.

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Creators: Warner, Pat. Ward, Gerald W. R. Fuller Craft Museum.

GUSN: 361459

Call Number: Coll NK805.A43 2018

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