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The city and country purchaser, and builder's dictionary: or, the compleat builders guide. Shewing The Qualities, Quantities, Proportions, and Rates or Value of All Materials relating to Building; with the Best Method of Preparing many of them. Also The Customs, and Methods of Measuring of all Artificers Work, concern'd in Building; together with the City and Country Prices not only of Workmanship, but of Materials also: The which will be extraordinary Useful in Making of Bargains, or Contracts betwixt the Work-Master and Work Man; and likewise in Computing the Value (or Charge of Erecting) of any Fabrick, Great or Small. Likewise The Explanation of the Terms of Art used by most Workmen. Together with Aphorisms, or Necessary Rules in Building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, and Form, &c. By Richard Neve, Philmath.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1726- Books
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The builder's dictionary: or, Gentleman and Architect's companion. Explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice Of the Various Branches thereof, requisite to be known by Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, Glaziers, Smiths, Turners, Carvers, Statuaries, Plumbers, &c. Also Necessary Problems in Arithmetic, Geometry, Mechanics, Perspective, Hydraulics, and other Mathematical Sciences. Together with The Quantities, Proportions, and Prices of all Kinds of Materials used in Building; with Directions for Chusing, Preparing, and Using them: The several Proportions of the Five Orders of Architecture, and all their Members, according to Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, Vignola, M. Le Clerc, &c. With Rules for the Valuation of Houses, and the Expence calculated of Erecting any Fabrick, Great or Small. The Whole Illustrated with more than Two Hundred Figures, many of them curiously Engraven on Copper-Plates: Being a Work of great Use, not only to Artificers, but likewise to Gentlemen, and others, concerned in building, &c. Faithfully digested from the most Approved Writers on these Subjects. In two volumes.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The rudiments of ancient architecture, in two parts. Containing an historical account of the five orders, with their proportions and Examples of each from the Antiques; also Vitruvius on the temples and intercolumniations, &c. of the ancients . Calculated for the Use of those who wish to attain a summary Knowledge of the Science of Architecture. With a dictionary of terms. Illustrated with ten plates.
Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The rudiments of architecture: or, the young workman's instructor. In two parts. Part First, Containing The five Orders of Columns entire, with Frontispieces, Doors, Windows, Porticoes, Intercolumniations, and Arcades, suited to each; Rustic Doors and Windows; Block and Cantaliver Cornices; Rustic; Quoins; the manner of constructing Brick and Stone-Arches; Centuring for Groins and Vaulting; Stairs, Twisted Rails, Roofs and Domes; Inspectional Scales, Tables, &c. Directions for Drawing Plans and Elevations with Indian Ink: Likewise, the French and Spanish Orders. Part Second, Containing Geometry; the Mensuration of Solids and Supersicies; Plain Trigonometry, and Surveying of Land. With twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, the builder's dictionary : Intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend Teachers.
Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The city and countrey purchaser, and builder's dictionary: or, the compleat builder's guide. ... By T. N. Philomath.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1703