Historic New England

Principles of architecture; comprising fundamental rules of the art, with their application to practice: also rules for shadows for the five orders. By Peter Nicholson.

xx, 280 p. 216 (i.e. 219) pl. (part fold.) 24 cm.

Date: 1848.

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, ed.

GUSN: 151140

Call Number: Rare NA2520.N62

The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added a list of the price of carpenters' work : the whole illustrated and made perfectly easy by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each / by William Pain ....

16, 7, [1] p., 146 [i.e. 154] leaves of plates : chiefly ill., plans ; 25 cm. (4to)

Date: 1796.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790? American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 151141

Call Number: Rare NA2515.P3 1796

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish : illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published : with clear and ample instructions ... : the whole correctly engraven on 102 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs ... / by William Pain, architect and joiner.

[3], 81 [i.e. 104] leaves (4 folded) : ill., plans ; 40 cm. (fol.)

Date: 1762.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

GUSN: 151142

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P18 1762 c.1 (and 1 more)

Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant : demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish : illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections ... / the whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.

4, 16 p., 42 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1790.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790? Pain, James.

GUSN: 151143

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2517.P2 1790

The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building. Rules of carpentry. With plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, architect and joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.

3 p. ¾., LXXXIII pl. (incl. diagrs) 27 cm.

Date: 1799.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

GUSN: 151144

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P185

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

The new navy of the United States / by N.L. Stebbins; introduction by the admiral of the navy, George Dewey, U.S.N.; with a supplement on the Revenue cutter service, and an article by Captain Preston H. Uberroth, R.C.S.

[158] p. : ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore, 1847-

GUSN: 150922

Call Number: Stacks VA59.S85

The yachtsman's album : containing portraits of two hundred and forty yachts, representing all classes. Reproduced from photographs, with a descriptive index. / Published by N. L. Stebbins, Boston, Mass. 1896

No description

Date: 1896

Creators: Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore, 1847-

GUSN: 150923

Call Number: Rare GV821.S8

The last men of the Revolution. A photograph of each from life, together with views of their homes printed in colors. Accompanied by brief biographical sketches of the men, by Rev. E. B. Hillard.

64 p. col. plates, ports. 19 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Hillard, Elias Brewster, 1825-1895.

GUSN: 150924

Call Number: Rare E206.H54

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies / by W. Winterbotham.

590 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, port. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1796.

Creators: Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829.

GUSN: 150925

Call Number: Rare E18.W79 1796 vol.1

The history of New-England : containing an impartial account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the country to the year of Our Lord, 1700 ; To which is added, The present state of New-England : with a new and accurate map of the country, and an appendix containing their present charter, their ecclesiastical discipline and their municipal-laws / by Daniel Neal.

x, 330 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1720.

Creators: Neal, Daniel, 1678-1743.

GUSN: 150926

Call Number: Rare F7.N43 vol.1

Mount Desert, on the coast of Maine ... By Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin.

[10], [9]-95, [9] p. 5 mounted phot. (incl. front.) fold. map. 19 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Martin, Clara Barnes, d. 1886. Loring, Short & Harmon, Portland, Me., pub.

GUSN: 150927

Call Number: Rare F27.M9 M3

Mt. Desert in 1873 : portrayed in crayon and quill.

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

Date: [1873]

Creators: Mount Desert Island.

GUSN: 150928

Call Number: Stacks F27.M9 M68 1873

The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

1 p.¾., 14 p. 32 cm.

Date: 1759.

Creators: Massachusetts.

GUSN: 150929

Call Number: Rare KFM2430 1759.A2

Continuation of the history of the province of Massachusetts bay, from the year 1748. With an introductory sketch of events from its original settlement / by George Richards Minot.

2 v. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1798,1803.

Creators: Minot, George Richards, 1758-1802.

GUSN: 150930

Call Number: Rare F67.M66 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The history of the county of Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts : with a particular account of every town from its first settlement to the present time : including its ecclesiastical state, together with a geographical description of the same : to which is prefixed a map of the county, at large, from actual survey / by Peter Whitney.

vi, 339 p. : 1 folded map, port. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1793.

Creators: Whitney, Peter, 1744-1816

GUSN: 150931

Call Number: Rare F72.W9 W45 1793

Homes of our forefathers in Boston, Old England, and Boston, New England. From original drawings by Edwin Whitefield.

84 p. col. front., col. pl. 26 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin.

GUSN: 150932

Call Number: Rare F73.37.W59

Collection of facts and documents relative to the project of a bridge from South Street in Boston to Dorchester Neck : and the annexation of that peninsula to the town of Boston.

62 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1805.

GUSN: 150933

Call Number: Rare AC901.B3 vol. 65

Poetic localities of Cambridge. Ed. by W. J. Stillman. Illustrated with heliotypes from nature.

41 p. front., 11 pl. 25 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Stillman, William James, 1828-1901, ed.

GUSN: 150934

Call Number: Rare PN6110.P7 C4

Waltham, past and present ; and its industries : with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1738.

152 p. : plates, ports. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Nelson, Charles Alexander.

GUSN: 150935

Call Number: Rare F74.W2 N4

Plans and sections of the obelisk on Bunker's hill. With the details of experiments made in quarrying the granite.

31 p. illus. 35 cm.

Date: 1843.

Creators: Willard, S. (Solomon)

GUSN: 150936

Call Number: Rare NA9350.B6 W5 1843

Acts and laws, passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England.

163 p. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1726.

Creators: New Hampshire (Colony) New Hampshire. General Assembly.

GUSN: 150937

Call Number: Rare KFN1225.2 1726

Chronicles of the first planters of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1636. Now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts, and illustrated with notes. By Alexander Young...

viii, 571 p. port., map. 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Young, Alexander, 1800-1854.

GUSN: 150938

Call Number: Rare F67.Y68

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