Historic New England

The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book :containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs. Together with much valuable instruction for all mechanics and amateurs, useful rules, tables, etc. ... /by H.W. Holly ... Illustrated by forty-three engravings.

57 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Date: 1888, Ã1863.

Creators: Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells)

GUSN: 307955

Call Number: Rare TH5608.H74 1888

The cabinetmaker & the carver :Boston furniture from private collections /Gerald W.R. Ward.

59 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 2013.

Creators: Ward, Gerald W. R. Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 307956

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.B6 W37 2013

The backstory of wallpaper :paper-hangings, 1650-1750 /Robert M. Kelly.

183 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Creators: Kelly, Robert M., 1949-

GUSN: 307957

Call Number: Stacks NK3400.K45 2013 (and 1 more)

A history of Howard Johnson's :how a Massachusetts soda fountain became an American icon /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

pages cm, "The story of the Howard Johnson's restaurant chain"-- Provided by publisher., "Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida and all the way to the West Coast. Popularly known as the "Father of the Franchise Industr...

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 307958

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX945.5.H595 S25 2013

The New England story, a novel.

346 pages 21 cm

Date: [1958]

Creators: Hough, Henry Beetle, 1896-

GUSN: 307959

Call Number: Stacks PS3515.O75933

In Berkshire fields, by Walter Prichard Eaton; illustrated by Walter King Stone.

xii 312 pages illustrations, plates (some color) 23 cm

Date: [1920]

Creators: Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957.

GUSN: 307960

Call Number: Stacks QH81 E3

A leadership for peace :how Edwin Ginn tried to change the world /Robert I. Rotberg.

xiii, 247 pages : portraits ; 24 cm, "For as long as there has been war, there have been those who have opposed such bloodshed. Here Robert Rotberg details the flowering of the great American peace movement in the late nineteenth century and the remarkable life of its foremost proponent, Edwin Ginn....

Date: 2007.

Creators: Rotberg, Robert I.

GUSN: 307961

Call Number: Stacks JZ5540.2 .G56 R68 2007

Irving J. Gill, architect /Bruce Kamerling

140 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Creators: Kamerling, Bruce A., author. Gill, Irving, 1870-1936, architect.

GUSN: 307962

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.G53 K36 1993

Grandeur preserved :the house museums of Historic Charleston Foundation /Historic Charleston Foundation ; introduction by Katharine S. Robinson.

96 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Historic Charleston Foundation (Charleston, S.C.)

GUSN: 307963

Call Number: Coll. F279.C48 A2 2008

Politics, war, and personality :fifty iconic World War II documents that changed the world /Kenneth W. Rendell ; foreword by John S.D. Eisenhower.

viii, 120 pages : color illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Creators: Rendell, Kenneth W., author. Eisenhower, John S. D., 1922-2013. Szmuk-Tanenbaum, Szilvia E., donor.

GUSN: 307964

Call Number: Stacks D743.2.R397 2013

The great American West :pursuing the American dream /Kenneth W. Rendell ; [foreword by Senator Alan Simpson].

218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.

Creators: Rendell, Kenneth W.

GUSN: 307965

Call Number: Stacks F591.R44 2013

The quest for paradise :a history of the world's gardens /Ronald Kind ; with an introd. by Anthony Huxley.

288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Date: Ã1979.

Creators: King, Ronald, 1914-

GUSN: 307966

Call Number: Stacks SB465.K56 1979

The world heritage of gardens /Duæsan Ogrin.

400 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm, "The study of gardens and their history has made such enormous strides in recent years that there is now urgent need for a book summarizing our present knowledge in a reliable and attractive form. Dusan Ogrin, a renowned authority on the subject...

Date: 1993.

Creators: Ogrin, Duésan.

GUSN: 307967

Call Number: Stacks SB465.O4713 1993

The Aloha Boathouse and the Iris Bathroom :two installations by the Grueby Faience and Tile Company from the Two Red Roses Foundation /Susan J. Montgomery.

80 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Montgomery, Susan J., 1947- Two Red Roses Foundation.

GUSN: 307968

Call Number: Coll. NK2115.5.T54 T89 2013

Community by design :the Olmsted firm and the development of Brookline, Massachusetts /Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, Roger G. Reed.

xvi, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm, In 1883, Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. moved from New York City to Brookline, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb that annointed itself the richest town in the world. For the next half century, until his son Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. relocated to California in 19...

Creators: Morgan, Keith N. Cushing, Elizabeth Hope, 1945- Reed, Roger G., 1950-

GUSN: 307969

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA9127.B68 M67 2013

State register of historic places /Massachusetts Historical Commission.

v. ; 22 x 28 cm.

Creators: Massachusetts Historical Commission.

GUSN: 307970

Call Number: Stacks F65.S73 2014

Bucket Town :woodenware & wooden toys of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635-1945 /Derin T. Bray.

xv, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Creators: Bray, Derin.

GUSN: 307971

Call Number: Coll. TT200.B73 2014 (and 2 more)

Thoreau: the Maine woods :a photographic journey through an American wilderness /photographs by Scot Miller.

xiv, 238 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm

Creators: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Miller, Scot. Walden Woods Project.

GUSN: 307972

Call Number: Stacks F27.P5 T43 2013

New Haven's sentinels :the art and science of East Rock and West Rock /Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and John Wareham.

xii, 156 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm.

Creators: Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle. Wareham, John.

GUSN: 307973

Call Number: Stacks QE93.Z448 2013

The Hub's metropolis :greater Boston's development from railroad suburbs to smart growth /James C. O'Connell.

xii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: O'Connell, James C.

GUSN: 307974

Call Number: Stacks HC108.B65 O26 2013

The materials of exchange between Britain and north east America, 1750-1900 /edited by Daniel Maudlin, University of Plymouth, UK, and Robin Peel, University of Plymouth, UK.

xi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Maudlin, Daniel, editor of compilation. Peel, Robin, editor of compilation.

GUSN: 307975

Call Number: Stacks PS159.E5 M38 2013

The holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments ; Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and With the former Translations diligently compared and revised :By His Majesty's special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches.

unnumbered pages : 28 cm

Date: 1768.

GUSN: 309064

Call Number: Rare BS125 1768

Historical rooms from the manor houses of England /by Charles L. Roberson.

3 v. : illus., plans, plates (part col.) ; 25 cm.

Date: [192 ?].

Creators: Roberson, Charles L. Knightsbridge Hall Galleries, Knightsbridge, Eng.

GUSN: 309491

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.001 Box B1 (barcode 000011076)

A description of St. Joseph's Church, Portland (Deering), Maine :crown of the Right Reverend Jubilarian's labors.

16 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm

Date: [1944?]

GUSN: 309492

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.002 Box B1 (barcode 000011076)

... Le luminaire ;transformations progressives du Ier au XIXe siècle ; spt cents reproductions documentaires; appliques, bougeoirs, candélabres, chandeliers, couronnes de lumiére, lampadaires, lampes, landternes, lustres, torchéres, trépieds, etc.Documents pub. par Édouard Rouveyre.

4 p.l. : 80 mounted pl. ; 29 cm.

Date: [1908?]

Creators: Rouveyre, Edouard, 1849-1930.

GUSN: 309519

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.003 Box B1 (barcode 000011076)

Index of exhibits [at the] Forty-sixth Annual Exhibition, February 27 to March 12, inclusive, 1932.

25, [1] pages 23 cm

Date: [1932]

Creators: Architectural League of New York.

GUSN: 309520

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.004 Box B1 (barcode 000011076)

The Euclid avenue Presbyterian church.Alexander McGaffin, minister. Dedication services April 2-7, 1911.

[36] pages including illustrations, plates frontispiece 31 cm

Date: 1911.

Creators: Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio)

GUSN: 309521

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.005 Box B1 (barcode 000011076)

Business planning guide :a handbook to help you design, write, and use a business plan tailored to your specific business needs : includes worksheets for financial data /David H. Bangs, Jr., William R. Osgood.

iv, 85 pages ; 29 cm.

Date: Ã1976.

Creators: Bangs, David H. Osgood, William R., author.

GUSN: 309522

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.006 Box B2 (barcode 000011077) copy 1 (and 2 more)

Beautiful pearls of Catholic truth, containing the teachings of the holy Catholic church, and the sacred books of the Bible as interpreted by the one truth church founded by Our Divine Saviour ...together with biographies of illustrious saints ...from the writings of the following distringuished authors, Rt. Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, LL. D., His Eminence Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Rt. Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, D.D., Rev. Arnold Damen, S.J., and other eminent Catholic writers of Europe and American, to which is added a sketch of the apostle of temperance, Father Mathew, and total abstinence from a Catholic point of view; profusely embellished with superb illustrations in colors, phototype and wood engravings.

No description

Date: [18--]

Creators: O'Reilly, Bernard, 1823-1907.

GUSN: 309523

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.007 Box B2 (barcode 000011077)

Recueil des oeuvres de Richard de Lalonde, dessinateur et décorateur (époque Louis XVI) contenant ses ouvrages d'orfèvrerie, de bijouterie et de serrurerie, ses cahiers d'ameublement, de meubles et d'ébânisterie.

No description

Date: [19--]

Creators: Lalonde, Richard de.

GUSN: 309524

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.008 Box B3 /246.3 (barcode 000011032)

Moderne ornamentale Werke im Stile der italienischen Renaissance /vom bildhauer A. Hauptmann.

138 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm

Date: [188-?]

Creators: Hauptmann, Karl August, -1878.

GUSN: 309525

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.009 Box B4 (barcode 000011078)

[Plates from] The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director :being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste ... and other ornaments to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture and rules of perspective with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified ... /by Thomas Chippendale ...

No description

Creators: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

GUSN: 309526

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.010 Box B4 (barcode 000011078)

Journal de la décoration :27e année.

1 portfolio : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm

Date: [19--?]

GUSN: 309527

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.012 Box B5 (barcode 000011079)

Dekorative Vorbilder :eine Sammlung von figürlichen Darstellungen, kunstgewerblichen Verzierungen, plastischen Ornamenten, dekorativen Tier- und Pflanzen-typen, Allegorieen, heraldischen Motiven, Traphäen, etc. /für Zeichner, Maler, graphische Künstler, Dekorateure, Bildhauer, Architekten.

v. : ill. ; 36 cm.

GUSN: 309528

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.011 Box B5 (barcode 000011079)

Architectural digest.

v. : ill. ; 28-35 cm.

GUSN: 309540

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.013 vol. XI, no. 1 Box B6 (barcode 000011080) (and 7 more)

Ireland :crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840 /edited by William Laffan and Christopher Monkhouse ; with the assistance of Leslie Fitzpatrick ; with contributions by Toby Barnard [and 14 others].

288 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm, "This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with their native counterparts, forging a uniquely Irish style. Nearly all of the works within this remarkabl...

Creators: Laffan, William, editor. Monkhouse, Christopher P., editor. Fitzpatrick, Leslie, editor. Barnard, T. C. (Toby Christopher), contributor. Art Institute of Chicago,

GUSN: 309747

Call Number: Coll. N6787.I74 2015

Measured drawings of woodwork displayed in the American Wing.

[4] pages, XL plates 37 x 52 cm

Date: 1925.

Creators: Faulkner, Herbert Winthrop Waldron. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.

GUSN: 310488

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.014 Box B7 (barcode 000011088)

Moderne Rococo-Möbel in reicher Ausführung /von Adolf Hoffmann.

1 vol : 15 Tafeln ; 41 cm.

Date: [s.a.]

Creators: Hoffmann, Adolf.

GUSN: 310489

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.015 Box B8 (barcode 000011089)

Meubles modernes en bois massif[par] J. Arnoult.

1 preliminary leaf, 24 plates 45 cm

Date: [192-?]

Creators: Arnoult, J.

GUSN: 310490

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.016 Box B8 (barcode 000011089)

Panneaux décoratifs et tentures murales du XVIIIe siècle et du commencement du XIXe siècles; reproductions des modèles de l'époque, précédées d'une notice historique sur la décoration murale.

13 pages 34 plates

Date: [date of publication not identified]

Creators: Gusman, Pierre, 1862-1942.

GUSN: 310491

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.017 Box B8 (barcode 000011089)

Decors et ameublements au gout du jour /Gaston Fleury.

32 p. : ill. ; 47 cm.

Date: [1912?]

Creators: Fleury, Gaston.

GUSN: 310492

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.018 Box B9 (barcode 000011090)

Meubles de goût moderne en bois massif.6me série.

1 portfolio (24 leaves) : all illustrations ; 46 cm

Date: [192-?]

GUSN: 310493

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.019 Box B9 (barcode 000011090)

Rahmen :Italien und Deutschland XVI jahrhundert /text von Julius Lessing.

[2] p., [13] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 48 cm.

Date: 1888.

Creators: Lessing, Julius, 1843-1908. Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin, Germany)

GUSN: 310494

Call Number: IC-AHD CC010.007.020 Box B9 (barcode 000011090)

Nyåuingurando kikåo :amerika tåobu kyåosei no michi /Arai Hiroyuki.

319 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 2013.

Creators: Arai, Hiroyuki.

GUSN: 311080

Call Number: Stacks F4.A73 2013

Interpreting historic house museums /edited by Jessica Foy Donnelly.

viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., 14 museum professionals consider the history of historic house museums and discuss the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. They explore contemporary issues and successful programmes, and present practical guidelines a...

Date: Ã2002.

Creators: Donnelly, Jessica Foy, 1960-

GUSN: 328949

Call Number: Stacks E159.D66 2002

How prints look :photographs with a commentary /by W.M. Ivins.

164 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1943.

Creators: Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 328954

Call Number: 85M Stacks NE863 I95h 1943

A culture at risk :who cares for America's heritage? /Charles Phillips, Patricia Hogan ; with a historical introduction by John Alexander Williams.

xii, 95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã1984.

Creators: Phillips, Charles, 1948- Hogan, Patricia R.

GUSN: 328955

Call Number: Stacks E172.P54x, 1984

Historian's handbook :a key to the study and writing of history. /Wood Gray ; with the collaboration of William Columbus Davis [and others].

vii, 88 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1964.

Creators: Gray, Wood, 1905-

GUSN: 328956

Call Number: Stacks D13.G78 1964

Gifts of property :a guide for donors and museums /American Association of Museums, Association of Art Museum Directors.

25 pages ; 21 cm

Date: 1986, Ã1985.

Creators: American Association of Museums. Association of Art Museum Directors.

GUSN: 328957

Call Number: Coll. KF6388.G54 1986

Reinventing the museum :historical and contemporary perspectives on the paradigm shift /edited by Gail Anderson.

xii, 402 pages ; 26 cm, This volume gathers 35 seminal articles reflecting over 100 years of dialogue within the musem community about what it means to be a high-quality, relevant institution. Important reading for museum professionals, students, and anyone interested in museums and their developmen...

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Anderson, Gail, 1954-

GUSN: 328962

Call Number: Coll AM7.R435 2004

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