One of my favorite tools and one I have seen misused by too may people over the years. Often these are snatched up at auctions by antiquey people who want a wall hanging but quality ones can be found on places like Ebay. I have several styles and they each have their virtues.
My carriage maker model gets all the heavy work where the carpenter’s razor gets the other 80%. And let’s not forget the humble but beautiful cabinet scraper.
Preindustrial Craftsmanship 
I found this in the pursuit of first principals : https://archive.org/search.php?query=woodworking+AND+collection%3Aadditional_collections&page=1 .
Not quite there , but I’m getting close
Nice. Look like good links.
I really need to start my searches in these two places : http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=wood
Project Gutenberg is a truly great facet of the internet.