Historic New England

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

Wallace Nutting's biography / illustrated by six photographs.

vii, 295 p. : plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: [c1936]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941

GUSN: 150872

Call Number: Stacks CT275.N787 A3

Rebecca Nurse : saint but witch victim / by Charles Sutherland Tapley.

xiii, 105 p. : front. (port.) plates ; 20 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Tapley, Charles Sutherland, 1899-

GUSN: 150873

Call Number: Stacks BF1576.T23

Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane ...

1 p. l. : xxxviii plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1797.

Creators: Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.

GUSN: 150874

Call Number: Rare NA2707.S63 D47 1797

A collection of designs in architecture : containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... likewise some screens and pavilions ... / by Abraham Swan, architect ...

2 v. : 120 plates ; 42 cm.

Date: 1757.

Creators: Swan, Abraham.

GUSN: 150875

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7120.S93 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Original designs in architecture / by William Thomas ... consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio; which contain plans, elevations, sections, ceilings and chimney pieces, for villas and town houses; designs for temples, grottos, sepulchres, bridges, &c. in the most approved taste. To which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs.

12 p. : XXVII plates ; 54 cm.

Date: 1783.

Creators: Thomas, William, d. 1800 Mèuller, Tobias, fl. 1765-1790. Malpas, E., ill. Roberts, James, 1724 or 5-1799.

GUSN: 150876

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2620.T86 1783

The town and country builder's assistant ... : explaining short and easy rules ... / for drawing and working, the five orders of columns entire: or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's and arcades. Together with a variety of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pedements ... The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 60 folio copper-plates. By a lover of architect.

12+ p. : front., LX plates ; 32 cm.

Date: [1786]

Creators: Norman, John, 1748?-1817.

GUSN: 150877

Call Number: Rare NA2517.N84

A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations / from original designs by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

122 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1756.

Creators: Ware, Isaac, d. 1766. Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.

GUSN: 150878

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2517.W26

The sanitary condition of city and country dwelling houses / by George E. Waring, jr. ...

145 p. : ill. ; 16 cm..

Date: 1877.

Creators: Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.

GUSN: 150879

Call Number: Rare TD905.W28

Dictionnaire de l'ameublement et de la dâecoration depuis le XIIIe siáecle jusqu'áa nos jours / par Henry Havard.

4 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ; 33 cm.

Date: [1894?]

Creators: Havard, Henry, 1838-1921.

GUSN: 150880

Call Number: Rare Browne NK30.H4 1890z vol.1 (and 3 more)

Art in the house : historical, critical, and aesthetical studies on the decoration and furnishing of the dwelling / by Jakob von Falke ...

[2], [iii]-xxx, 356 p. : ill., LX pl. (part col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Falke, Jacob von, 1825-1897. Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886, tr.

GUSN: 150881

Call Number: Rare NK2110.F32

Pugin's Gothic furniture.

25 plates ; 30 cm.

Date: [182-?]

Creators: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.

GUSN: 150882

Call Number: Rare NK2542.P8 1820

Dekorative vorbilderj.

60 leaves of plates ; 30 cm.

Date: 1908.

GUSN: 150883

Call Number: Rare NK1160.D34 1908 vol.19 (and 2 more)

Modern decorative designs : coloured designs and sketches / by contemporary artists ; selected from "Dekorative Vorbilder."

1 portfolio (113 plates) : chiefly col. ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [191-?]

GUSN: 150884

Call Number: Rare NK1450.M63 (and 4 more)

The decoration of houses / by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr.

4p.¾., vii-xxii [1]-204p., 2¾. : ill. ; 22.4 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Codman, Ogden.

GUSN: 150885

Call Number: Rare NK2110.W5 1897

Characteristics of old furniture : styles in England 1600-1800 / by H. P. Benn and W. C. Baldock.

79 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 19--?]

Creators: Benn, H. P. (H. Pringuer) Baldock, W. C.

GUSN: 150886

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.B4

The decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries, by Francis Lenygon.

xii, 215 p. illus. 35 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Lenygon, Francis, 1877-1943.

GUSN: 150887

Call Number: Rare NK2043.L6 1909

Specimens of ancient furniture drawn from existing authorities by Henry Shaw ... with descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick ...

2 p. l., 57 p. lxxiv pl. (partly col.) 29 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir, 1783-1848. Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873.

GUSN: 150888

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.M4

Costume of the ancients.

2 v. 321 plates 25 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831.

GUSN: 150889

Call Number: Rare GT545.H6 1841 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements; also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various ... substances employed in these arts. With an appendix ... / by an experienced dyer. Assisted by several scientific gentlemen ...

xxi, 704 p. : X plates, diagrs. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Parnell, Edward A. (Edward Andrew)

GUSN: 150890

Call Number: Rare TP893.P25

My crochet sampler / by Miss Lambert.

160 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1847.

Creators: Lambert, Miss (F.)

GUSN: 150891

Call Number: Rare TT820.L36 1847

The practical book of oriental rugs.

359 p. : ill., plates (part col.) fold. map, fold. chart ; 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Lewis, G. Griffin (George Griffin), b. 1865.

GUSN: 150892

Call Number: Rare NK2808.L65 1911

Treatise on clock and watch making : theoretical and practical / by Thomas Reid.

viii, 476 p., 20 ¾. of plates : ill., tables ; 25 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Reid, Thomas.

GUSN: 150893

Call Number: Rare TS545.R35 1832

"What shall we do with our walls?" [By] Clarence Cook.

1 p. ¾., 35 p. col. front., col. plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Cook, Clarence Chatham, 1818-1900. Warren, Fuller & Lange, New York.

GUSN: 150894

Call Number: Rare NK3395.C6 1881

Le pitture antiche del sepolcro de Nasonii nella Via Flaminia / disegnate ed intagliate alla similitudine degli antichi originali da Pietro Santi Bartoli ; descritte & illustrate da Gio. Pietro Bellori.

16, 35-50, 65-76 p., XXXV leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (etchings) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Date: [1---?]

Creators: Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635-1700. Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1615?-1696.

GUSN: 150895

Call Number: Rare Browne ND2575.B38

Art in northern Italy, by Corrado Ricci.

vii, 372 p., 1 ¾. col. front., illus., col. plates. 19 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934.

GUSN: 150896

Call Number: Rare Browne N6911.R45

The art of writing reduced to a plain and easy system : on a plan entirely new, in seven books / y John Jenkins, writing master. Book 1. Containing a plain easy and familiar introduction, which may be considered as a grammar to the art.

xx, 68, [4] p. : front. (port.) ill., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1813]

Creators: Jenkins, John, 1755?-1823.

GUSN: 150897

Call Number: Rare Z43.J53

The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing, and the theory and practice of perspective : in a series of letters, containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure : with a new method of practical perspective : detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style for the use of teachers or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings ...

vi, 159 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 30 cm.

Date: 1840.

Creators: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150898

Call Number: Rare NC730.W48 1840

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