Historic New England

Itinâeraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne, ou description gâenâerale des monumens anciens et modernes, et des ouvrages les plus remarquables en peinture, sculpture [etc.] / par le chevalier M. Vasi ... Rectifiâe par A. Nibby.

2 v. : plates, fold. maps ; 18 cm.

Date: 1804.

Creators: Romain Vasi, M[ariano] Nibby, A. (Antonio), 1792-1839.

GUSN: 150994

Call Number: Rare Browne DG804.V33 vol.1 (and 1 more)

M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem. Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Gvilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Clavdii Salmasii passim insertis. Prµmittuntur Elementa architectvrµ collecta ab ... Henrico Wottono ... Accedunt Lexicon Vitrvvianvm Bernardini Baldi Vrbinatis ... et ejusdem Scamilli Impares Vitrvviani. De pictvra libri tres absolutissimi Leonis Baptistµ de Albertis. De scvlptvra, excerpta maxime animadvertenda ex dialogo Pomponii Gavrici Neapolit. Lvdovici Demontiosii Commentarivs de scvlptra et pictvra. Cur variis indicibvs copiosissimis. Omnia in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Ioanne de Laet ...

4 p. l., 30, [2], 272, [27], 164, 69, [3] p. illus., diagrs. 31 cm.

Date: 1649]

Creators: Vitruvius Pollio. Philandrier, Guillaume, 1505-1565. Saumalse, Claude de, 1588-1653? Barbaro, Daniello, 1513-1570. Wotton, Sir Henry, 1568-1639. Baldi, Bernardino, 1553-1617. Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. Melbom, Marcus, d. 1711. Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555. Montjosieu, Louis de, 16th cent. Goldmann, Nikolaus, 1611-1665. Gaurico, Pomponio, 1481 or 82-1528? Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649.

GUSN: 150995

Call Number: Rare NA2517.V7 1649

Egypt; three essays on the history, religion and art of ancient Egypt.

4 p.l., 86 p. 32 pl., 1 map. 27 cm.

Date: 1892 [1891]

Creators: Brimmer, Martin, 1829-1896. Chapman, Minna Timmins, "Mrs. John Jay Chapman."

GUSN: 150996

Call Number: Rare Browne DT61.B85

Ancient Rome in the light of recent discoveries / by Rodolfo Lanciani ... With one hundred illustrations.

xxix, 329 p. : front., ill., map, plans ; 24 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929.

GUSN: 150997

Call Number: Rare Browne DG63.L24

Pagan and Christian Rome, by Rodolfo Lanciani ...

ix, 361, [7], [363]-374 p. front., illus., plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929.

GUSN: 150998

Call Number: Rare Browne DG809.L24

Rudiments of ancient architecture, containing an historic account of the five orders, with their proportions, and examples of each from antiques; also extracts from Vitruvius, Pliny, &c. relative to the buildings of the ancients. With a dictionary of terms. Illustrated with eleven plates.

xvi 117 p. 11 plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1794.

GUSN: 150999

Call Number: Rare NA260.R8 1794

The seats of the nobility and gentry, in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views, engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists. With descriptions of each view.

[172] p. LXXXIV pl. 21 x 28 cm.

Date: 1779.

Creators: Watts, William, 1752-1851.

GUSN: 151000

Call Number: Rare Browne DA660.W33

Essays of the London Architectural Society.

xii, 139 p., 4 ¾. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1808.

Creators: Taylor, J. London Architectural Society.

GUSN: 151001

Call Number: Rare NA961.L66 1808

A history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800, by Reginald Blomfield ... with drawings by the author and other illustrations ...

2 v. illus., plates, plans. 29 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942.

GUSN: 151002

Call Number: Rare Browne NA540.B6 vol.1 (and 1 more)

An analysis of Gothick architecture: illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice. By Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon.

2 v. illus., plates. 33 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877. Brandon, Joshua Arthur, 1822-1847.

GUSN: 151003

Call Number: Rare Browne NA480.B8 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Parish churches; being perspective views of English ecclesiastical structures: accompanied by plans drawn to a uniform scale, and letter-press descriptions / by Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon.

2 v. in 1 : plates, plans ; 28 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Brandon, Raphael, 1817-1877. Brandon, Joshua Arthur, 1822-1847.

GUSN: 151004

Call Number: Rare Browne NA5463.B8 1851 vol.1-2

Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England: embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture; also eighty-six plates of plans, sections, elevations, and views, with historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice and subject; an alphabetical list of architects of the Middle Ages and chronological lists of ancient churches; sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc. A dictionary of architectural terms, and copious indexes, by John Britton.

xviii, 223, lxiv p. 86 plates. 30 cm.

Date: 1835.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857.

GUSN: 151005

Call Number: Rare NA360.B75 vol.5

Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England : embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture : also eighty-six plates of plans, sections, elevations, and views, with historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice and subject; an alphabetical list of architects of the Middle Ages and chronological lists of ancient churches; sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc. : a dictionary of architectural terms, and copious indexes / by John Britton.

xvi, 260 p., [86] leaves of plates, lxiv p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1826.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857.

GUSN: 151006

Call Number: Rare NA5461.B7c vol.5

A history of the Gothic revival; an attempt to show how the taste for mediµval architecture, which lingered in England during the two last centuries, has since been encouraged and developed, by Charles L. Eastlake.

xvi, 427 p. front., illus., 35 pl. 24 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1836-1906.

GUSN: 151007

Call Number: Rare NA610.E2

Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II. to Henry VIII. With numerous illustrations of existing remains, from original drawings. By the editor of "The glossary of architecture".

2 v. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1859.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 151008

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T92 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A new display of the beauties of England : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ...

2 v. : plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1776.

GUSN: 151009

Call Number: Rare DA620.N53 1776 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Elementi d'architettura civile : ridotti in compendio / dal Conte Nicolino de'Conti di Calepio.

95 p. : viiii engr. plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1784.

Creators: Conti di Calepio, Nicolino de, conte.

GUSN: 151010

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.C3 1784

An attempt to determine the exact character of Elizabethan architecture : illustrated by parallels of Dorton house, Hatfield, Longleate, and Wollaton, in England; and the Palazzo della Cancellaria, at Rome. By James Hakewill ...

20, [2] p., 1 l. : ill., plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1835.

Creators: Hakewill, James, 1778-1843

GUSN: 151011

Call Number: Rare NA625.H3

Jones' views of the seats, mansions, castles, etc. of nobleman and gentlemen in England.

v. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1829]

Creators: Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847.

GUSN: 151012

Call Number: Rare DA660.N36 1829

Inigo Jones and Wren : or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England / by W. J. Loftie.

xvi, 284 p. : ill., plates ; 26 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911.

GUSN: 151013

Call Number: Rare Browne NA997.J7 L8

Development & character of Gothic architecture, by Charles Herbert Moore ...

xix, 333 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1890.

Creators: Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930.

GUSN: 151014

Call Number: Rare Browne NA440.M8

Examples of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. By A. Pugin. The literary part by E.J. Wilson.

3v. illus., plates (1 col., part fold.) plans (part double) 31 cm.

Date: 1838-39.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852. Wilson, Edward James, 1787-1854.

GUSN: 151015

Call Number: Rare Browne NA445.P8 1838 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Specimens of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large ... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. / By A. Pugin....The literary part by E. J. Willson.

2 v. : 112 plates. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1825.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854.

GUSN: 151016

Call Number: Rare NA445.P8 1825 vol.1

Examples of Gothic architecture; selected from various ancient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large ... accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. By A. Pugin and A. W. Pugin, architects, the literary part by E. J. Willson.

3 v. fronts., illus., 214 pl. (1 col., 5 double, incl. plans) 31 x 26 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852. Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854. Walker, T. L. (Thomas Larkin)

GUSN: 151017

Call Number: Rare NA445.P8 1850 vol.1 (and 2 more)

Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I. to Richard II., with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings, by the editor of "The glossary of architecture."

v, [10], 352 p. front., illus., plates, plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884.

GUSN: 151018

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T91

Some account of domestic architecture in England : from the conquest to the end of the thirteenth century / by T. Hudson Turner.

xxxii, 287 p. : ill., plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Turner, Thomas Hudson, 1815-1852.

GUSN: 151019

Call Number: Rare NA7328.T91 1851 vol.1

Cottage and villa architecture : two hundred designs / by Thomas U. Walter and J. Jay Smith.

4 v. : plates, plans ; 33 x 27 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887. Smith, John Jay, 1798-1881.

GUSN: 151020

Call Number: Rare NA7600.W35 1846 vol.1 (and 3 more)

Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views : or, Edinburgh in the nineteenth century: exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs / from original drawings by Mr. Thomas H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical, and critical illustrations [by John Britton]

vi, [168] p. : 88 plates ; 28 cm.

Date: 1829.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857. Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) illus.

GUSN: 151021

Call Number: Rare DA890.E3 B8 1829

Vanishing London: a series of drawings illustrating some of the old houses, etc., in London and Westminster. By Roland W. Paul.

24 p. illus., xl pl. 30 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Paul, Roland Wilmot.

GUSN: 151022

Call Number: Rare Browne NA970.P3

Illustrations of the public buildings of London: with historical and descriptive accounts of each ediface. By Pugin and Britton.

2 v. illus., plates (part fold.) plans (part fold.) 24 cm.

Date: 1838.

Creators: Britton, John, 1771-1857. Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. Leeds, W. H. (William Henry), 1786-1866.

GUSN: 151023

Call Number: Rare Browne NA970.B8 1838 vol.1 (and 3 more)

London and its environs in the nineteenth century, illustrated by a series of views from original drawings, by Thomas H. Shepherd. With historical, topographical and critical notices. Series the first, comprising the earlier edifices, antiquities, & c.

1 p.l., iii, 160 p. front, 79 pl. 27 cm.

Date: 1829.

Creators: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) Elmes, James, 1782-1862.

GUSN: 151024

Call Number: Rare DA683.S54

The history of Whitby, and of Whitby abbey : collected from the original records of the abbey, and other authentic memoirs, never before made public, containing, not only the history of Whitby and the country adjacent, but also the original and antiquity of many particular families and places in other parts of Yorkshire, divided into three books... / by Lionel Charlton.

xviii, 379 p., 4 pl. (1 fold.) : ill., maps., plan. 27 cm.

Date: 1779.

Creators: Charlton, Lionel, 1720-1788.

GUSN: 151025

Call Number: Rare DA690.W57 C4

Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham ... embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building, with perspective views of the same.

44 [i.e. 46], 8 p., [2] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., plans ; 22 cm.

Date: 1766.

Creators: Seeley, B. (Benton)

GUSN: 151026

Call Number: Rare Browne SB479.T45 S84 1766

Pen sketches of old houses / Wm. E. Barry.

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: [1874?]

Creators: Barry, William E.

GUSN: 151027

Call Number: Rare NA707.B37

The architecture of country houses; including designs for cottages, farm-houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating. With three hundred and twenty illustrations. By A. J. Downing.

x, 484 p. illus. (incl. plans) plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1861.

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

GUSN: 151029

Call Number: Rare NA7561.D75 1861

Cottages and cottage life : containing plans for country houses, adapted to the means and wants of the people of the United States; with directions for building and improving; for the laying out and embellishing of grounds; with some sketches of life in this country / by C.W. Elliott.

xii p., 1 ¾., 226 p. : 16 plates, ; 25 cm.

Date: 1848.

Creators: Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883.

GUSN: 151030

Call Number: Rare NA7561.E46

Homes of American authors : comprising anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches, by various writers ...

viii, 469 p. : ill., plates, ports., facsims. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1854.

GUSN: 151031

Call Number: Stacks PS141.H6 (and 1 more)

Civil architecture : or, A complete theoretical and practical system of building. Containing the fundamental principles of the art, with the five orders of architecture. Also a great variety of examples selected from Vitruvius, Stuart, Chambers, and Nicholson. With many useful and elegant ornaments, and rules for projecting them / by Edward Shaw ...

175, [1], 95 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1831.

Creators: Shaw, Edward, b. 1784. Perry Collection.

GUSN: 151032

Call Number: Rare NA2522.S45 1831

Examples of American domestic architecture, by John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb, architects, Portland, Maine.

30, [25], 32-40 p. incl. front., illus. LIX pl. 26 x 37 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Stevens, John Calvin. Cobb, A. W. (Albert Winslow)

GUSN: 151033

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7511.S8

Early New England interiors. Sketches in Salem, Marblehead, Portsmouth and Kittery / by Arthur Little ...

45 ¾ : 36 plates ; 28 x 36 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Little, Arthur.

GUSN: 151034

Call Number: Rare NA707.L7

Experimental essays on the principles of construction in arches, piers, buttresses, etc. : made with a view to their being useful to the practical builder / by William Bland.

vi, 138, 12 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1867.

Creators: Bland, William.

GUSN: 151035

Call Number: Rare TG327.B64 1839

A rudimentary treatise on the history, construction and illumination of lighthouses.

204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Stevenson, Alan, 1807-1865.

GUSN: 151036

Call Number: Rare VK1024.S74 1850

Les plus belles âeglises du monde : notices historiques et archâeoloques sur les temples les plus câelebres de la Chrâetientâe / par ... J. -J. Bourassâe ; illustrations d®apr°es Karl Girardet.

504 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 26 cm.

Date: 1857.

Creators: Bourassâe, Jean Jacques, 1813-1872.

GUSN: 151037

Call Number: Rare Browne NA4815.B6 1861

Designs for churches and chapels, of various dimensions and styles : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, with estimates: also some designs for altars, pulpits, and steeples. By W.F. Pocock ...

28 p.. 44 l. of plates ; 30 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Pocock, William Fuller, 1779-1849.

GUSN: 151038

Call Number: Rare NA4810.P7 1835

A treatise on bridge architecture : in which the superior advantages of the flying pendent lever bridge are fully proved / by Thomas Pope.

[2], vi, [8], [vii]-xxxii, [33]-288 p., 15 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1811.

Creators: Pope, Thomas

GUSN: 151039

Call Number: Rare TG145 P67 1811

Stables, outbuildings and fences : illustrated with a series of 120 original designs and plans, with descriptive matter / by George E. Harney.

vi, [90] p., 62 leaves of plates : plans ; 30 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Harney, George E.

GUSN: 151040

Call Number: Rare NA8301.H3 1870a

The Cabinet-maker's guide, or, Rules and instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering, and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal : with observations on their management and application.

108 p. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1825.

GUSN: 151041

Call Number: Rare TT305.C15 1825

The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations, manufactures, and other useful purposes / By D.R. Hay ...

vii, [1], 72 p., 5 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798-1866.

GUSN: 151042

Call Number: Rare ND1280.H5 1836

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

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