Guides: Rare Books for HSPV: Library Holdings for Documentation

Guide to the Rare Books Room

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Guide to the Fisher Fine Arts Library Rare Book Room

Books in the Fisher Fine Arts Rare Book Room

The linked titles below will take you to each item's record in Franklin, the Penn Libraries catalog. Click on "Request to view" from a record to let us know you would like to consult an item. You can also set up your Special Collections viewer account from the Research Account page.

Asher Benjamin, The American Builder's Companion, 1820
Asher Benjamin, The Country Builder's Assistant, 1805
Batty Langley, The City and Country Builder’s and Workman’s Treasury of Designs, 1745
Batty Langley, The City and Country Builder’s and Workman’s Treasury of Designs, 1756
E.C. Hussey, Home Building: a reliable book of facts, 1876
Henry Hudson Holly, Holly's Country Seats, 1863
Isaac Ware, Designs of Inigo Jones and Others, 1757
John Plaw, Sketches for Country Houses, Villas, and Rural Dwellings, 1803
Minard Lafever, The Beauties of Modern Architecture, 1849
Minard Lafever, The Modern Builder's Guide, 1833
O.S. Fowler, A Home for All, or, The gravel wall and octagon mode of building, 1854
Owen Biddle, The young carpenter's assistant; or, A system of architecture, adapted to the style of building in the United States, 1805
Palladio, Il Quattro Libri dell’Architettura, 1570 (vols. 3 and 4)
Robert Riddell, The Modern Carpenter and Builder, 1867
Samuel Sloan, Sloan's homestead architecture, 1861.
Samuel Sloan, The Model Architect, 1852
Twelve Designs of Country-Houses, 1757
Vitruvius, De Architettura, 1522
William Bell, Carpentry Made Easy, 1859
William Pain, The Practical House Carpenter, 1794

Atlases

Bromley Atlas of the City of Philadelphia, 22nd ward, 1889
Bromley Atlas of the City of Philadelphia, Complete in One Volume, 1895
Bromley Atlas of the city of Philadelphia, 22nd ward, 1899
Bromley Atlas of the city of Philadelphia, 22nd ward, 1928
Franklin Atlas of the 22nd Ward, 1955

Library Holdings

Reprints or titles otherwise not in the rare books room:

Langley, Batty. The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs. 1967. NA3310 .L3 1967

Price, William L. Model houses for little money / by William L. Price ; with an additional chapter on doors and windows by Frank S. Guild. full text online