Historic New England

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

The New England states : their constitutional, judicial, educational, commercial, professional and industrial history / by William T. Davis, editor ...

498 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: [c1897]

Creators: Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907.

GUSN: 150772

Call Number: Ref. F4.D26 vol.1

The Walpole Society note book. (Annual)

v. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Creators: Walpole Society (U.S.)

GUSN: 150773

Call Number: Stacks N11.W23 1944

Report on the custody and condition of the public records of parishes, towns, and counties / by Carroll D. Wright, commissioner.

li, 379 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Wright, Carroll Davidson, 1840-1909.

GUSN: 150774

Call Number: Stacks CD3290.A2

The Thomas Creese house Boston, Massachusetts, being the description of a typical townhouse of the early eighteenth century and containing a history of the site thereof from the time of Anne Hutchinson to the present day, by John Perkins Brown and Eleanor Ransom.

43 p. front., plates, double map, plans. 25 cm.

Date: 1940.

Creators: Brown, John Perkins. Ransom, Eleanor.

GUSN: 150775

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.B86

History of the Boston water works, from 1868 to 1876. Being a supplement to a "History of the introduction of pure water into the city of Boston, with a description of its Cochituate waterworks, etc., 1868".

1 p. ¾., [v]-vi p., 1 ¾., 290 p. front., plates, maps (1 fold.) fold. tables. 26 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Fitzgerald, Desmond, 1846-1926, comp. Boston (Mass.). Cochituate Water Board.

GUSN: 150776

Call Number: Stacks TD225.B7 B82

Rules and regulations for the government of the Police Department of the city of Boston, 1909.

308 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Boston (Mass.). Police Dept.

GUSN: 150777

Call Number: Stacks HV7578.A6 1909

Annual report of the Boston Infirmary Department of the City of Boston for the year ending ... (Annual)

v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1915-

Creators: Boston Infirmary Dept.

GUSN: 150778

Call Number: Stacks HA730.B7 A5 1915

The graveyards of Boston : first volume, Copp's Hill epitaphs. Prepared for publication by William H. Whitmore.

xxiii, 116 p. : ill. ; 26 x 16 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Whitmore, William Henry, 1836-1900, comp. Wyman, Thomas Bellows.

GUSN: 150779

Call Number: Stacks F73.61.C7 W6

Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890 / by Robert Brand Hanson.

xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Hanson, Robert Brand.

GUSN: 150780

Call Number: Stacks F74.D3 H27

Frontier of freedom; the soul and substance of America portrayed in one extraordinary village, Old Deerfield, Massetts, by Samuel Chamberlain and Henry N. Flynt. Illustrated by Samuel Chamberlain.

170 p. (chiefly illus.) 24 cm.

Date: [1957]

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

GUSN: 150781

Call Number: Stacks F74.D4 C47 1957

Mill and mansion : a study of architecture and society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865 / John Coolidge.

xi, 261 p., [49] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 1942.

Creators: Coolidge, John, 1913-

GUSN: 150782

Call Number: Stacks NA735.L9 C6

The Lowell directory and business key for 1849.

256 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: McPhetres, S. A. (Samuel A.)

GUSN: 150783

Call Number: Stacks F74.L9 M37 1849

Lowell illustrated : a chronological record of events and historical sketches of the large manufacturing corporations / compiled and edited by Frank P. Hill; photographic designs by N.C. Sanborn ... albertype plates by the Forbes Co., Boston; letterpress by Huse, Goodwin & Co., Lowell.

1 p. ¾., 92 numb. 1 : ill., plates ; 28 x 37 cm.

Date: 1884.

Creators: Hill, Frank Pierce, 1855-1941, comp. and ed.

GUSN: 150784

Call Number: Stacks F74.L9 H6

Memorial of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Malden, Massachusetts, May, 1899.

xii, 340 p. front., plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Malden (Mass.)

GUSN: 150785

Call Number: Stacks F74.M2 M25

Old Sturbridge Village, a guidebook, by Catherine Fennelly.

77 p. illus., fold. map (on back cover) 22 cm.

Date: [1966]

Creators: Fennelly, Catherine, 1918- Old Sturbridge Village.

GUSN: 150786

Call Number: Stacks F74.S93 O5 1966

History of the Department of Police Service of Worcester, Mass., from 1674 to 1900, historical and biographical : illustrating and describing the economy, equipment and effectiveness of the police force of to-day, with reminiscences of the past, containing information from official sources / by Herbert M. Sawyer. Arranged by R. E. Murphy.

276 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Sawyer, Herbert M. Murphy, R. E. Worcester (Mass.). Dept. of Police Service.

GUSN: 150787

Call Number: Stacks HV7625.W9

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation at the end of the century : a history / Edward Field.

3 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Field, Edward.

GUSN: 150788

Call Number: Stacks F79.R492 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Picturesque Rhode Island : pen and pencil sketches of the scenery and history its cities, towns, and hamlets, and of men who have made them famous / by Wilfred H. Munro.

56, 304, 57-96 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Munro, Wilfred H. (Wilfred Harold), 1849- Grieve, Robert, 1855-1924. Luther, Ellen R.

GUSN: 150789

Call Number: Stacks F79.M96

Rhode Island, a guide to the smallest state, written by workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works progress administration for the state of Rhode Island ...

xxvi, 500 p. plates, ports., maps (1 fold., in pocket) 21 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Federal Writers' Project. Rhode Island.

GUSN: 150790

Call Number: Stacks F79.F38

Vital record of Rhode Island : 1636-1850 : first series : births, marriages and deaths : a family register for the people / by James N. Arnold ....

v. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1891-

Creators: Arnold, James N. (James Newell), 1844-1927.

GUSN: 150791

Call Number: Stacks F78.A75 vol.7

Dedham records / edited by Don Gleason Hill.

5 v. : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1886-1899.

Creators: Hill, Don Gleason, ed. Dedham (Mass.)

GUSN: 150792

Call Number: Stacks F74.D3 D44 vol.1 1886 (and 4 more)

Abbot and Miss Bailey and Abbot in the early days / Jane B. Carpenter.

326 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1959.

Creators: Carpenter, Jane Brodie.

GUSN: 150793

Call Number: Stacks LD7251.A52 C37 1959

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