Historic New England

Practical masonry, bricklaying and plastering, both plain and ornamenmtal: containing a new and complete system of lines for stone-cutting; for the use of workmen; with an ample detail of the theory and practice of constructing arches, domes, groins, niches, stairs columns, &c. Including also, practical treatises on slating, plumbing, painting, and glazing; and a full description of the various materials employed in all these arts.

vii, 232 p. 45 plates. 30 cm.

Date: 1830.

GUSN: 151043

Call Number: Rare TH5311.P7

Essay on the construction of school-houses : to which was awarded the prize offered by the American institute of instruction, August, 1831 / by William A. Alcott. With an appendix.

iv, [5]. 66 p. : ill. (plans) ; 20 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Alcott, William Andrus, 1798-1859.

GUSN: 151044

Call Number: Rare LB3221.A5

The theory and practice of surveying; containing all the instructions requisite for the skilful practice of this art, by Robert Gibson. Illustrated by copper-plates. The whole corrected, newly arranged, and greatly enlarged, with useful selections, and a new set of accurate mathematical tables, by D. P. Adams.

324, 184 p. XIII fold. pl. 23 cm.

Date: 1814.

Creators: Gibson, Robert. Adams, D. P.

GUSN: 151045

Call Number: Rare TA545.G4 1814

American gardens / edited by Guy Lowell.

[26], [14] p. : ill., CXII plates ; 32 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927.

GUSN: 151046

Call Number: Rare SB465.L9

[Pamphlet miscellany : Eighteenth century]

1 v. (various pagings) ; 19 cm.

Date: 1800?]

Creators: March, R. A treatise on silk, wool, worsted, cotton, and thread. Haigh, James. A hint to the dyers, and cloth makers and well worth the notice of the merchant. Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government and the justice and policy of war with America. Dundonald, Archibald Cochrane, Earl of, 1749?-1831. Account of the qualities and uses of coal tar and coal varnish. Cox, Richard, Sir, 1702-1766. The case of Edward Lord Bishop of Elphin. Caldwell, James, Sir, d. 1784. An address to the House of Commons of Ireland. Long, John, clothier. The golden fleece.

GUSN: 151047

Call Number: Rare DA947.Z9 I7 1800

A history of gardening in England, By the Hon. Alicia Amherst.

xiv, 405 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Cecil, Evelyn, Mrs., d. 1941.

GUSN: 151048

Call Number: Rare Browne SB451.R6 1896

Dell'arte dei giardini inglesi / di Ercole Silva ; a cura di Gianni Venturi.

[4], 373 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1801 (Anno IX).

Creators: Silva, Ercole, conte di Biandrate, 1756-1840.

GUSN: 151049

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.G7 S55 1801

Florula bostoniensis. A collection of plants of Boston and its vicinity, with their generic and specific characters, principal synonyms, descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks. By Jacob Bigelow ...

5 p., 1 l., 422, [1] p. 25 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.

GUSN: 151050

Call Number: Rare QK166.B5 1824

The young florist : or, Conversations on the culture of flowers, and on natural history, with numerous engravings, from original designs / by Joseph Breck ...

168 p. : ill., plates, 13 cm.

Date: 1833.

Creators: Breck, Joseph, 1794-1873.

GUSN: 151051

Call Number: Rare SB405.B835

Confidences of an amateur gardener.

299 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Dew-Smith, A. M.

GUSN: 151052

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.D47

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc. with remarks on rural architecture... By A. J. Downing.

2 p. ¾., viii, [9]-451 p. front., illus. 24 1/2 cm.

Date: 1841

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852

GUSN: 151053

Call Number: Rare SB471.D7 1841

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out gardens and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial water, flower gardens, etc., with remarks on rural architecture.

xiv, [9]-497 p. front., illus., plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1844.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.

GUSN: 151054

Call Number: Rare SB471.D

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the improvement of country residences ... With remarks on rural architecture. By the late A. J. Downing, esq.

xvi, [17]-592 p. front. (port.) illus., plates, plans. 24 cm.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882.

GUSN: 151055

Call Number: Rare Browne SB471.D756

De l'art des jardins du XVe au XXe siáecle, par Marcel Fouquier.

x, 254 p., 1 ¾. incl. front. illus., plates, ports. 39 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Fouquier, Marcel, 1866-1961.

GUSN: 151056

Call Number: Rare Browne SB451.F7

Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds. With designs, in various styles of rural embellishment: comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves ... To which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants, adapted to villa grounds ...

xi, 70 p. 20 double pl. 31 cm.

Date: 1813.

Creators: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.

GUSN: 151057

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.L8

The theory and practice of gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, commonly called pleasure-gardens, as parterres, groves, bowling-greens &c. ... Together with remarks and general rules in all that concerns the art of gardening. Done from the French original, printed at Paris, anno 1709. By John James.

7 p. l., 218 p., 1 l., [2] p. illus., fold. plates. 26 x 21 cm.

Date: 1712.

Creators: Dâezallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765. James, John, d. 1746, tr. Le Blond, Alexandre Jean Baptiste, 1679-1719.

GUSN: 151058

Call Number: Rare SB461.L44

Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both, by Gertrude Jekyll; with 53 illustrations from photographs by the author.

xv, 301 p. incl. front. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.

GUSN: 151059

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.J44

Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur, by Gertrude Jekyll ... with 71 illustrations from photographs by the author.

xvi, 286 p. incl. front. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.

GUSN: 151060

Call Number: Rare Browne SB453.J5 1899

The gardens of Italy / by Charles Latham ; with descriptions by E. March Phillipps.

2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 41 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Latham, Charles Phillipps, Evelyn March, d. 1915.

GUSN: 151061

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. SB466.I8 P6 1905 vol.2

A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies, and other kinds of horticultural structures. With practical directions for their management, in regard to light, heat, and air / by Robert B. Leuchars.

vi, 366 p. : ill., tables ; 21 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Leuchars, Robert B.

GUSN: 151062

Call Number: Rare SB416.L5

The American gardener's calendar; adapted to the climates and seasons of the United States. Containing a complete account of all the work necessary to be done in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, orchard, vineyard, nursery, pleasure-ground, flower-garden, green-house, hot-house, and forcing frames, for every month in the year; with ample practical directions for performing the same. Also, general as well as minute instructions, for laying out, or erecting, each and every of the above departments ... To which are annexed, extensive catalogues of the different kinds of plants ... By Bernard M'Mahon, nursery, seedsman, and florist.

v, [1], 648, [18] p. fold. tab. 22.1 cm.

Date: 1806.

Creators: MacMahon, Bernard, 1775?-1816.

GUSN: 151063

Call Number: Rare SB93.M16 1806

Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions.

4 p. ¾., 257 p. 22 cm.

Date: 1777.

Creators: Whately, Thomas, d. 1772.

GUSN: 151064

Call Number: Rare Browne SB471.W55 1777

Italian gardens ...

153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933.

GUSN: 151065

Call Number: Rare Browne NA9500.P69 (and 1 more)

The Scots gardener for the climate of Scotland : in three parts, treating of the following particulars, I. of contrivance and design, II. of gardens and orchards, &c., III. of levelling, measuring, and dividing land, IV. of cultivating and preparing ground, V. of forest and fruit trees, VI. of gathering and preserving fruits : together with The gardener's kalendar, The florist's vade-mecum, The practical bee-master, Observations on the weather, and the Earl of Haddington's Treatise on forest-trees / written originally by John Reid, gardener to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh ; and now carefully corrected, with alterations and additions, by an eminent hand.

[3]-viii, 208, 48, viii, 40 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., plans (etchings) ; 17 cm. (12mo)

Date: 1766.

Creators: Reid, John, Gardener. Haddington Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 1680-1735. Short treatise on forest-trees. Claridge, John. Shepherd of Banbury's rules. Claridge, John. The country kalendar, or the shepherd of Banbury's observations.

GUSN: 151066

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.S3 R35 1766

The parks, promenades and gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities and of public and private gardens / by W. Robinson.

xxxii, 644 p., 44 leaves of plates : ill., maps ; cm.

Date: 1869.

Creators: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.

GUSN: 151067

Call Number: Rare Browne SB485.P24 R63 1869

Garden-craft old and new / with a memorial notice by the Rev. E.F. Russell.

xxvi p., 1 ¾., 215 p. : front., plates ; cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Sedding, John Dando, 1838-1891. Russell, E. F.

GUSN: 151068

Call Number: Rare Browne SB455.S4 1892

Seven gardens and a palace / by "E.V.B." [i.e. E.V. Boyle] ; with illustrations by F.L.B. Griggs and Arthur Gordon.

xii, 297 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Boyle, Eleanor Vere Gordon, 1825-1916.

GUSN: 151069

Call Number: Rare Browne PR6003.O7 S4 1900

Gardens Ancient and Modern; an epitome of the literature of the garden-art, with an historical epilogue by Albert Forbes Sieveking.

xvi, 423 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Sieveking, Albert Forbes, 1857- ed.

GUSN: 151070

Call Number: Rare Browne SB455.S48

The evolution of horticulture in New England / by Daniel Denison Slade.

3 p. l., 180 p. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Slade, Daniel Denison, 1823-1896.

GUSN: 151071

Call Number: Rare Browne SB83.S6

An island garden, by Celia Thaxter, with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam.

ix, 126 p. col. front., illus., col. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894.

GUSN: 151072

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.U7 T6

The journal and major essays of John Woolman. Edited by Phillips P. Moulton.

xviii, 336 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Woolman, John, 1720-1772.

GUSN: 151423

Call Number: Stacks BX7795.W7 A3 1971

Letters of Mrs. Adams ; the wife of John Adams. With an introductory memoir by her grandson, Charles Francis Adams.

lxiii, 447 p. : ports., 18 cm.

Date: 1840.

Creators: Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818. Adams, John, 1735-1826 Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886.

GUSN: 151424

Call Number: Stacks E322.1.A3

New letters of Abigail Adams, 1788-1801 / edited with an introd. by Stewart Mitchell.

xlii, 281 p. : ill., ports., geneal. tables. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1947.

Creators: Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818. Cranch, Mary Smith, 1741-1811. Mitchell, Stewart, 1892-

GUSN: 151425

Call Number: Stacks E322.1.A37

The Cary letters : edited at the request of the family / by C. G. C.

ix, 335 p. : ports., plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1891.

Creators: Curtis, Caroline Gardiner Cary, 1827-1917.

GUSN: 151426

Call Number: Stacks CS71.C332 1891

The works of Rufus Choate, with a memoir of his life. By Samuel Gilman Brown ...

2 v. 2 facsim. (1 double) 24 cm.

Date: 1862.

Creators: Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859. Brown, Samuel Gilman, 1813-1885.

GUSN: 151427

Call Number: Stacks E338.C54 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Early letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord. Ed. by George Willis Cooke.

2 p. l., 293, [1] p. 20 cm.

Date: 1898.

Creators: Curtis, George William, 1824-1892. Cooke, George Willis, 1848-1923.

GUSN: 151428

Call Number: Stacks PS1493.A3 1898

Life in Carolina and New England during the nineteenth century, as illustrated by reminiscences and letters of the Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina, and of the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island.

233 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Middleton, Allecia Hopton, 1849-

GUSN: 151429

Call Number: Stacks F273.M62

Letters and recollections of John Murray Forbes; ed. by his daughter, Sarah Forbes Hughes ...

2 v. fronts., pl., ports., map, fold. facsim. 23 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898. Hughes, Sarah Forbes, ed.

GUSN: 151430

Call Number: Stacks E415.7.F69 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett / ed. by Annie Fields.

4 p. l., [3]-259, [1] p. : front., ports., facsim. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Fields, Annie, 1834-1915.

GUSN: 151431

Call Number: Stacks PS2133.A3 1911

The correspondence of John Lothrop Motley ... / ed. by George William Curtis ...

2 v. : ill., (port. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877. Curtis, George William, 1824-1892.

GUSN: 151432

Call Number: Stacks PS2436.A3 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A legacy of New England : letters of the Palfrey family.

2 v. (xviii, 401 p.) : ill., ports., facsims. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1950.

Creators: Ayer, Hannah Palfrey, 1881-

GUSN: 151433

Call Number: Stacks E340.P2 A9 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The life and letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765-1848 / by Samuel Eliot Morison ... with portraits and other illustrations ...

2 v. : front., plates, ports., facsims. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

GUSN: 151434

Call Number: 85M Stacks E340.O8 M8 vol.1 c.1 (and 3 more)

Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins : containing extracts from his diaries and letters.

304 p. : ill., port. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1856 [c1855]

Creators: Cary, Thomas G. (Thomas Greaves), 1791-1859.

GUSN: 151435

Call Number: Stacks F69.P46 1856

Life of Sir William Pepperell, Bart : the only native of New England who was created a Baronet during our connection with the mother country / Usher Parson.

xii, 352 p. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Parson, Usher.

GUSN: 151436

Call Number: Stacks E198.P423

The life of Timothy Pickering / Octavius Pickering.

4 v. : ill., ports ; 25 cm.

Date: 1867-1873.

Creators: Pickering, Octavius, 1791-1868. Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875.

GUSN: 151437

Call Number: Stacks E302.6.P5 P5 vol.1 (and 3 more)

Thomas Pownall, M.P., F.R.S., governor of Massachusetts Bay, author of The letters of Junius; with a supplement comparing the colonies of Kings George III and Edward VII, by Charles A. W. Pownall ...

ix, 470, 56, 25 p. illus., fold. diagr., facsims. (partly fold.), maps, plates, ports. 26 cm.

Date: [c1908]

Creators: Pownall, Charles Assheton Whately, 1848-

GUSN: 151438

Call Number: Stacks F67.P89

A memorial of Alexander Hamilton Rice from the city of Boston.

70 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Boston (Mass.). City Council.

GUSN: 151439

Call Number: Stacks F70.R5 B6

In memoriam : Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1810-1876, Ellen Bacon Sears, 1811-1897, Katharine Sears, 1843-1853.

171 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1898.

GUSN: 151440

Call Number: Stacks BX9867.I5

Richard Smith, first English settler of the Narragansett country, Rhode Island, with a series of letters written by his son, Richard Smith, jr., to members of the Winthrop family and notes on Cocumscussuc, Smith's estate in Narragansett, by Daniel Berkeley Updike; with illus. from drawings by Edmund Hort New.

xix, 118 p. plates 25 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941.

GUSN: 151441

Call Number: Stacks F82.U73

Gen. Stevenson.

129 p. front. (port). 20 cm.

Date: 1864?]

GUSN: 151442

Call Number: Stacks E467.1.S86 G3

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