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Architecture hydraulique, ou l'art de conduire, d'elever et de menager les eaux pour les différens besoins de la vie ... / Par M. Belidor.
Belidor, M. (Bernard Forest de), 1697?-1761.Date: 1737-1753- Books
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A treatise on civil architecture, In which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands. By William Chambers, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, of the Royal Academy of Architecture in Paris, and of the Society of Sciences in Stockholm, architect to the King, the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The art of fortification delineated: with rules for designing, drawing, washing, and colouring, in the most elegant taste, particular works and buildings, and their Plans, Elevations, Sections, Profiles, and Fronts, in Civil and Military Architecture: As likewise The intire Survey of a Place with its particular Charts, and the Description of Provinces, States, Kingdoms, Empires, &c. A Work absolutely necessary for the Gentleman, Officer, and Architect. Translated by J. Dinsdale. Adorn'd with twenty-three cuts, engrav'd by G. Bickham.
Buchotte, M., active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
The treasures of the Foundling Hospital / with a catalogue raisonné based on a draft catalogue by John Kerslake.
Nicolson, Benedict.Date: 1972- Books
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The mirror of architecture: or the ground-rules of the art of building, exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. Whereby the principal Points of Architecture are easily and plainly demonstrated for the Benefit of all Lovers and Ingenious Practitioners in the said Art. With the description and use of a joynt-rule, fitted with Lines for the ready finding the Lenghts and Angels of Rasters, and Hips, and Collar-Beams, in any Square or Bevelling Roof at any pitch; and the ready drawing the Architrave, Frize, and Cornice in any Order. With other useful Conclusions by the said Rule. By John Brown. The fifth edition. Whereunto is added, a compendium of the art of building. Giving a Brief Account of the Names, Natures, and Rates of all the Materials, belonging to the Erection of an Edifice: And what Quantity of each sort will be needful for the Building of any House. Whereby Estimates, Valuations and Contracts may be made between Builder and Workman, without Damage to either. And how to measure the Works of the several Artificers belonging to Building; and what Method and Customs are observ'd therein. By William Leyburn.
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552-1616.Date: 1708- Books
Tactile pictures : pictorial representations for the blind, 1784-1940 / Yvonne Eriksson.
Eriksson, Yvonne.Date: 1998- Books
Album prefaces and other documents on the history of calligraphers and painters / by Wheeler M. Thackston.
Thackston, W. M. (Wheeler McIntosh), 1944-Date: 2001- Books
Places of the soul : architecture and environmental design as healing art / Christopher Day.
Day, Christopher, 1942-Date: 2014- Books
Art and architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750 / [Rudolf Wittkower].
Wittkower, Rudolf.Date: [1973, ©1972]- Books
Caring culture : art, architecture and the politics of public health / [editors] Andrea Phillips, Markus Miessen.
Date: [2011]- Books
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A complete and universal English dictionary: including not only I. An explanation of difficult words and technical terms in all faculties and professions whether in Algebra Anatomy Architecture Arithmetic Astronomy Botany Chymistry Dialling Divinity Gardening Geography Geometry Grammar Heraldry History Husbandry Hydrostatics Law Mathematics Mechanics Military art Music Natural history Navigation Optics Painting Perspective Philosophy Pneumatics Poetry Rhetoric Sculpture Surveying &c. But also II. A pronouncing dictionary in which the proper sounds of English words are so given, that both natives and foreigners may acquire a just pronunciation. III. The origin of each word; with its different meanings; illustrated by authorities, properly accented; and followed by initial letters denoting the part of speech to which it is appropriated. IV. The differences pointed out between words esteemed synonimous. V. An epitome of the history of England; from the time of Egbert to the year 1798, arranged alphabetically under every sovereign's name. VI. A description of the various states, provinces and chief towns of the known world. VII. A statement of the sects and divisions in the Christian church; together with a brief history of the prophets and apostles. VIII. An account of the counties, cities and market-towns in Great Britain, with their distances from London. To which are prefixed a free inquiry into the origin and antiquity of letters: an essay on and grammar of the English language, besides a sketch of the constitution, government and trade of Britain. To the whole is added a chronological series of remarkable events, from the creation to the present period together with a list of the Grecian, Roman and English classics. A new edition corrected and improved by the addition of nearly five hundred articles. By the Rev. James Barclay, curate of Edmonton in Middlesex, and many years master of an academy in Goodman's Fields and at Tottenham.
Barclay, James, Curate of Edmonton.Date: 1799- Books
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Sarvistan : a study in early Iranian architecture / Lionel Bier.
Bier, LionelDate: [1986], ©1986- Books
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The architecture of the monastic library in Italy, 1300-1600 : catalogue with introductory essay / James F. O'Gorman.
O'Gorman, James FDate: [1972], ©1972- Books
Representing emotions : new connections in the histories of art, music and medicine / edited by Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Archives and manuscripts
"Various hospital art projects"
Date: 1990sReference: ART/COO/B/5/8Part of: Graham Cooper archive- Pictures
Giuseppina Grassini in the role of Zaire, in Turkish costume. Process print after E. Vigée-Lebrun, 1913.
Date: 1913Reference: 2020716i- Archives and manuscripts
"Public Art, Architecture, Landspace Architecture and Urban Design"
Date: 1980-1996Reference: ART/AFH/A/16/39Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Pictures
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A despondent woman sitting at her dressing table in a room which is extremely untidy. Photogravure by C. Eggimann, 1912, after J.B. Greuze.
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805.Date: 1912Reference: 33537i- Archives and manuscripts
British Health Care Arts
Date: 1987-1990Reference: ART/COO/B/2Part of: Graham Cooper archive- Books
Rudimentary dictionary of terms used in architecture, civil, architecture, naval, building and construction, early and ecclesiastical art, engineering, civil, engineering, mechanical, fine art, mining, surveying, etc., to which are added explanatory observations on numerous subjects connected with practical art and science / By John Weale.
Weale, John, 1791-1862.Date: 1849-1850- Books
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A practical essay on a cement, and artificial stone, justly supposed to be that of the Greeks and Romans, lately re-discovered by Monsieur Loriot, Master of Mechanics to His Most Christian Majesty, for the Cheap, easy, expeditious and durable Construction of all Manner of Buildings, and Formation of all Kinds of Ornaments of Architecture, even with the commonest and coarsest Materials. translated from the French original, lately published, by the Express Orders of the above Monarch.
Loriot, Antoine-Joseph, 1716-1782.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Adeline's art dictionary : containing a complete index of all terms used in art, architecture, heraldry, and archaeology / translated from the French and enlarged.
Adeline, Jules, 1845-1909.Date: 1891- Archives and manuscripts
Conference and meeting papers
Date: December 1981-May 2006Reference: ART/COO/B/1Part of: Graham Cooper archive- Archives and manuscripts
West Dorset
Date: c.1998-c.2003Reference: ART/COO/B/6Part of: Graham Cooper archive- Books
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The art of architecture, a poem. In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. Humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Honble the Earl of ---------
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754.Date: 1742