Historic New England

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

Early lighting; a pictorial guide, compiled and published by the Rushlight Club.

x, 129 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1972]

Creators: Rushlight Club.

GUSN: 150721

Call Number: Coll. NK6196.R87 (and 2 more)

Lighting in America : from colonial rushlights to Victorian chandeliers / edited by Lawrence S. Cooke.

159 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: [1976]

Creators: Cooke, Lawrence S.

GUSN: 150722

Call Number: Coll. NK6196.L53 (and 1 more)

Collection of heating and lighting utensils in the United States National museum / by Walter Hough.

viii, [110] p. : bill., plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Hough, Walter, 1859-1935. United States National Museum.

GUSN: 150723

Call Number: Coll. Q11.U6 no.141 (and 2 more)

Flickering flames; a history of domestic lighting through the ages.

138 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: [1958]

Creators: Thwing, Leroy Livingstone, 1897-

GUSN: 150724

Call Number: Coll. TP715.T45 (and 2 more)

Old lamps of central Europe and other lighting devices. Translated and edited by Leroy Thwing.

xii, 34 p. illus., plates. 28 cm.

Date: [1963, c1962]

Creators: Benesch, Ladislaus, Edler von, 1845- Thwing, Leroy (Leroy Livingstone), 1879- Rushlight Club.

GUSN: 150725

Call Number: Coll. NK8360.B45 (and 1 more)

Housewifery : a manual and text book of practical housekeeping / by Lydia Ray Balderston.

353 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [c1919]

Creators: Balderston, Lydia Ray.

GUSN: 150726

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX145.B3

American diaries : an annotated bibliography of published American diaries and journals / Laura Arksey, Nancy Pries, and Marcia Reed.

2 v. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1983-c1987.

Creators: Arksey, Laura. Pries, Nancy. Reed, Marcia. Matthews, William, 1905- American diaries.

GUSN: 150727

Call Number: Ref. Z5305.U5 A74 1983 vol.1

George Washington slept here : colonial revivals and American culture, 1876-1986 / Karal Ann Marling.

xii, 453 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Marling, Karal Ann.

GUSN: 150728

Call Number: 85M Stacks E312.17.M3 1988

The city of Gardiner, Maine, U.S.A. : its water power, industries, water front, picturesque avenues, attractions and surroundings / Published in the interest of the city by the Board of Trade.

112 p. : ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Gardiner, Maine. Board of Trade.

GUSN: 150729

Call Number: Stacks F29.G3 G38 1896 c.1 (and 1 more)

Massachusetts records : a handbook for genealogists, historians, lawyers, and other researchers.

66 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1957.

Creators: Bowen, Richard Le Baron.

GUSN: 150730

Call Number: Ref. CD3291.B6

A guide to Massachusetts local history; being a bibliographic index to the literature of the towns, cities and counties of the state, including books, pamphlets, articles in periodicals and collected works, books in preparation, historical manuscripts, newspaper clippings, etc., comp. by Charles A. Flagg ...

ix, [1], 256 p. maps. 25 cm.

Date: [1907]

Creators: Flagg, Charles Allcott, 1870-1920.

GUSN: 150731

Call Number: Ref. Z1295.F65

History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. / Comp. under the supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd...

2 v. : ill., plates, ports, double map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)

GUSN: 150732

Call Number: Stacks F72.W9 H5 vol.1

Vital records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850.

3 v. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1929-30.

Creators: New England Historic Genealogical Society.

GUSN: 150733

Call Number: Stacks F74.D25 D23 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Dedham's ancient landmarks and their national significance / by Edward Huntting Rudd ...

57 p. : plates ; 27 cm.

Date: [c1908]

Creators: Rudd, Edward Huntting, 1860-1909.

GUSN: 150734

Call Number: Stacks F74.D3 F8

Massachusetts Bay tercentenary, Dedham, October 6-11, 1930 / compiled by the Dedham Transcript.

136, 49 p. : ill., 1 folded map ; 23 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Dedham Transcript. Dedham (Mass.). Tercentenary Committee.

GUSN: 150735

Call Number: Stacks F74.D3 M37 1930

Historic Deerfield: houses and interiors, by Samuel Chamberlain and Henry N. Flynt. Illustrated by Samuel Chamberlain.

188 p. chiefly illus. 25 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895- Flynt, Henry.

GUSN: 150736

Call Number: Stacks F74.D4 C47 1972

The little brown house on the Albany road / by George Sheldon.

51 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1915

Creators: Sheldon, George, 1818-1916. Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner. Montague Press.

GUSN: 150737

Call Number: Stacks F74.D32 S54

Vital records of the town of Dorchester from 1826 to 1849.

288 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1905.

GUSN: 150738

Call Number: Stacks F74.D5 V58 1905a

In the heart of Cape Ann, or, The story of Dogtown / by Charles E. Mann ; with illustrations by Catherine Merrill Follansbee.

77 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map ; 18 cm.

Date: c1896.

Creators: Mann, Charles E. (Charles Edward), b. 1857.

GUSN: 150740

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.G5 M2

Illustrated history of Lowell / by Charles Cowley.

235 leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Cowley, Charles, 1832-1908.

GUSN: 150741

Call Number: Stacks F74.L9 C8

A history of Lowell / by Charles Cowley.

235 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Cowley, Charles, 1832-1908.

GUSN: 150742

Call Number: Stacks F74.L9 C81

Lynn and surroundings / by Clarence W. Hobbs.

161 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Hobbs, Clarence W.

GUSN: 150743

Call Number: Stacks F74.L98 H8

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