Historic New England

The carpenter's treasure; : a collection of designs for temples, with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the Gothic taste; with the centres at large, for striking Gothic curves and mouldings; and some specimens of rails, in the Chinese taste: forming a complete system for rural decorations. / Neatly engraved on sixteen plates, from the original drawings of N. Wallis, architect.

[4] p., XVI leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 29 cm. (fol.)

Date: [1773]

Creators: Wallis, N.

GUSN: 150951

Call Number: Stacks NA8450.W35 1773

A collection of designs for modern embellishments suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, folding doors, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes, &c. on 25 plates, by C.A. Busby.

25 plates (partly col.) 24 cm.

Date: [1808?]

Creators: Busby, Charles Augustus, 1788-1834.

GUSN: 150952

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2135.B9

The decorative arts : their relation to modern life and progress : an address delivered before the Trades' Guild of Learning / by William Morris.

50 p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Morris, William, 1834-1896.

GUSN: 150953

Call Number: Rare NK1132.M8 1878b

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide : being a complete drawing book, in which will be comprised treatises on geometry and perspective ... numerous engravings ... / by George Smith ...

viii, 219 p., [152] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1826.

Creators: Smith, George.

GUSN: 150954

Call Number: Rare NC705.S5

Examples of household taste / by Walter Smith.

x, 521 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: [1875]

Creators: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886.

GUSN: 150955

Call Number: Rare NK512.P44 P4 1875

A history of English furniture / by Percy Macquoid ; with plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author.

4 v. in 2 : ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm.

Date: 1904-1908.

Creators: Macquoid, Percy, d. 1925.

GUSN: 150956

Call Number: Rare NK2528.M2 1904 vol.1 (and 3 more)

Gothic furniture : consisting of twenty-seven coloured engravings / from designs by A. Pugin. With descriptive letter-press.

iv, 26 p.,[25] l. of plates ; 24 cm.

Date: [1826?]

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.

GUSN: 150957

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2542.P8 G68 1826

The house beautiful : essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks / by Clarence Cook.

336 p., [1] leaf of plates : 112 ill. (1 col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 Marsh, Henry. Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. former owner. Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150958

Call Number: Rare NK1960 C66

Textile fabrics; a descriptive catalogue of the collection of church-vestments, dresses, silk stuffs, needle-work and tapestries, forming that section of the Museum. By the Very Rev. Daniel Rock, D. D.. Pub. for the Science and art department of the Committee of council on education.

clxviii, 356 p. col. front., 19 pl. (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Rock, Daniel, 1799-1871. South Kensington Museum

GUSN: 150959

Call Number: Rare NK8802.L7 A5 1870

Nouveau traitâe âelâementaire de perspective áa l'usage des artistes et des personnes qui s'occupent du dessin : prâecâedâe des premiáeres notions de la gâeomâetrie âelâementaire, de la gâeomâetrie descriptive, de l'optique et de la projection des ombres / par J.-B. Cloquet.

viii, 333, [1] p. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1823.

Creators: Cloquet, J. B.

GUSN: 150960

Call Number: Rare NC750.C6 1823

Nouveau traitâe âelâementaire de perspective áa l'usage des artistes et des personnes qui s'occupent du dessin : prâecâedâe des premiáeres notions de la gâeomâetrie âelâementaire, de la gâeomâetrie descriptive, de l'optique et de la projection des ombres / par J.-B. Cloquet.

84 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1823.

Creators: Cloquet, J. B.

GUSN: 150961

Call Number: Rare NC750.C66 1823

The bachelor's own book : being the progress of Mr. Lambkin, (gent.) in the pursuit of pleasure ...

1 l., 12 plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1844.

Creators: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

GUSN: 150962

Call Number: Rare NC1479.C83 1844

The bachelor's own book : being the progress of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.) in the pursuit of pleasure and amusement, and also in search of health and happiness / designed, etched, and published by George Cruikshank.

[1], 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.

Date: [18--?]

Creators: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

GUSN: 150963

Call Number: Rare NC1479.C83

Pattern design : a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy, planning & evolution of repeated ornament / by Lewis F. Day.

xx, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910.

GUSN: 150964

Call Number: Rare NK1510.D38

A handbook of ornament / by Franz Sales Meyer.

viii, 548 p. : ill., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: [194-?]

Creators: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-

GUSN: 150965

Call Number: Rare NK1510.M6

Picturesque Maine. With descriptions by M.F. Sweetser.

65 p. plates. 21 cm.

Date: [1880]

Creators: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897.

GUSN: 150966

Call Number: Rare F25.S97

The history of New-Hampshire ... / by Jeremy Belknap.

3 v. : fold. map ; 21 cm.

Date: 1791-92.

Creators: Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798.

GUSN: 150967

Call Number: Rare F34.B43 vol.2 (and 1 more)

The science of double entry book-keeping : simplified, arranged and methodized ... containing also, a key, explaining the manner of journalizing ... / J.C. Colt, accountant.

188 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1841.

GUSN: 150968

Call Number: Stacks HF5635.S3

A literary history of wallpaper

211 p. illus. [part col.] ports., facsims. 26 cm.

Date: 1960.

Creators: Entwisle, E. A.

GUSN: 150969

Call Number: Ref. NK3400.E53 (and 1 more)

The book of wallpaper; a history and an appreciation. With an introd. by Sacheverell Sitwell.

151 p. illus. (part col.) ports. 26 cm.

Date: [1954]

Creators: Entwisle, E. A.

GUSN: 150970

Call Number: Stacks NK3400.E5

The spell of Belgium, by Isabel Anderson ...

ix, xv-xvi, 442 p. col. front., plates (part col.) ports., fold. map. 21 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Anderson, Isabel Perkins, Mrs., 1876-

GUSN: 150971

Call Number: Rare Browne DH433.A6

The art of garden design in Italy / by H. Inigo Triggs.

xii, 135 p. : ill., plans,128 plates , 45 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Triggs, H. Inigo (Harry Inigo), 1876-1923.

GUSN: 151073

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. SB466.I8 T8

The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century, by Warwick Wroth, assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth.

xviii, 335 p. illus. (part col.), ports. 22 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Wroth, Warwick William, 1858-1911. Wroth, Arthur Edgar.

GUSN: 151074

Call Number: Rare Browne DA689.P2 W9

Hints to gentlemen of landed property. By Nathaniel Kent, of Fulham.

vii, 282 p., 10 plates (plans) 22 cm.

Date: 1776.

Creators: Kent, Nathaniel, 1737-1810.

GUSN: 151075

Call Number: Rare S455.K4

Andrea Palladio, his life and works / by Banister F. Fletcher ...

xvi, 132 p. : 56 plates, port., plans; 29 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953.

GUSN: 151076

Call Number: Rare Browne NA1123.P2 F6

Sir John Soane / by H. J. Birnstingl ; with 35 illustrations from photographs by F. R. Yerbury.

29 p., [1], 34 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Birnstingl, Harry Joseph, 1890-

GUSN: 151077

Call Number: Rare Browne NA997.S7 B5 1925

Vita dell'architetto Luigi Vanvitelli / Luigi Vanvitelli.

55 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1823.

Creators: Vanvitelli, Luigi, 1700-1773.

GUSN: 151078

Call Number: Rare Browne NA1123.V36 A2 1823

The elements of civil architecture, according to Vitruvius and other ancients, and the most approved practice of modern authors especially Palladio. By Henry Aldrich ... Tr. by the Rev. Philip Smyth.

viii, 151 p. front. (port.) LV pl. (incl. plans) 24 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Aldrich, Henry, 1647-1710. Smyth, Philip, tr.

GUSN: 151079

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.A4

The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design, and machinist's and engineer's drawing companion : forming a complete course of mechanical, engineering, and architectural drawing / rewritten and arranged, with additional matter and plates, selections from and examples of the most useful and generally employed mechanism of the day, by William Johnson ; translated from the French of M. Armengaud, the elder ... and MM. Armengaud, the younger, and Amoureux.

v, 196 p. : ill., plates ; 29 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Armengaud, aãinâe (Jacques-Eugáene), 1810-1891. Armengaud, Charles A., 1813-1893. Amouroux, Jules. Johnson, William, 1823-1864.

GUSN: 151080

Call Number: Rare T353.A72 1854

Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de vignole, ... l'art de Bastire / par le sieur C.A. D'Aviler ... par Pierre-Jean Mariette.

iii-lvj, 447, [1] p., [77] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; cm.

Date: 1760.

Creators: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653-1701. Vignola, 1507-1573. Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564. Mariette, Pierre Jean, 1694-1774.

GUSN: 151081

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2510.A95 1760

The cottage builder's manual / by Z. Baker ...

176 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1856.

Creators: Baker, Z. (Zephaniah), 1815-1894.

GUSN: 151082

Call Number: Rare NA7561.B35 1856

The architect : or, Practical house carpenter / illustrated by sixty-four engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art; designed for the use of carpenters and builders. By Asher Benjamin ...

viii, [9]-119 p. : LXIV plates, plans, diagrs. ; 27 x 23 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151083

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B45 1851

The architect, or, Complete 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.

83 p., 66 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.

Date: 1845.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151084

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B44 1845

The architect; or, Practical house carpenter; illustrated by sixty-four engravings, which exhibit the orders of architecture, and other elements of the art; designed for the use of carpenters and builders.

viii, [9]-119 p. illus. 27 x 23 cm.

Date: 1853 [c1847]

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151085

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B4

Elements of architecture : containing the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders, with all their details and embellishments / Also, the theory and practice of carpentry ... Containing twenty-eight plates. By A. Benjamin ...

232 p. : ill., plates, tables. 24 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151086

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B43

Practice of architecture : containing the five orders of architecture, and an additional column and entablature, with all their elements and details explained and illustrated, for the use of carpenters and practical men, with sixty plates / by Asher Benjamin.

92 p., 60 leaves of plates : ill., plans, ; 27 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

GUSN: 151087

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.B48 1855

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

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