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An essay on the construction and building of chimneys. Including an enquiry into the common causes of their smoking, and the most effectual remedies for removing so intolerable a nuisance: with a table to proportion chimneys to the size of the room. Illustrated with proper figures. By Robert Clavering, builder.
Clavering, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The carpenter's and joiner's repository; or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, Cornices, and Mouldings, for Finishing Rooms, &c. &c. a Great Variety of Stair-Cases, on a Plan Entirely New, and Easy to be Understood. Circular Circular Soffits, Flewing and Winding, in Strait and Circular Walls, Groins, Angle-Brackets, Circular and Elliptical Sky-Lights, and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their Circular Bars, Shop. Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, joiner. A new edition. Engraved on sixty-nine copper plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The builder's price-book; containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building; including the journeymen's prices. The sixth edition, corrected. By an experienced surveyor.
Experienced Surveyor.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The builder's price-book; Containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building; including the journeymen's price. The fifth edition, corrected. By An experienced surveyor,
Experienced Surveyor.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The builder's price-book; Containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Including the journeymen's prices. The eleventh edition, corrected. By An experienced surveyor.
Experienced Surveyor.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The builder's price-book; Containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Including the journeymen's prices. The twelfth edition, corrected. By An experienced surveyor.
Experienced Surveyor.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]- Books
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Observations on smoky chimneys, their causes and cure; with considerations on fuel and stoves. Illustrated with proper figures. By Benjamin Franklin, LL.D.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The practical builder; or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; The Use of Tramel for Groins, Angle Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on flewing Jambs, the preparing and making their Soffits; Rules of Carpentry, To find the Length and Backing of Hips strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders in their general and particular Parts: Gluing of Columns; Stair-Cases with their Ramp and Twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. In The Newest Taste; With Plans and Elevations of Gentlemen's and Farm Houses, Barns, &c. The fifth edition; revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A treatise on theatres. By George Saunders.
Saunders, George, 1762-1839.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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An essay on the construction and building of chimneys. Including an enquiry into the common causes of their smoking, And The most effectual Remedies for removing so intolerable a Nuisance: with a table to proportion chimneys to the size of the room. Illustrated with proper figures. By Robert Clavering, Builder.
Clavering, Robert.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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On the structure and development of the liver / by C. Handfield Jones ; [communicated by Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie].
Jones, C. Handfield (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890.Date: 1849- Books
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On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney : with observations on the circulation through that gland / by William Bowman.
Bowman, William, Sir, 1816-1892.Date: 1842- Books
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On the development of the great anterior veins in man and Mammalia : including an account of certain remnants of foetal structure found in the adult, a comparative view of those great veins in the different Mammalia, and an analysis of their occasional peculiarities in the human subject / by John Marshall ; communicated by Professor Sharpey.
Marshall, John, 1818-1891.Date: 1850- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: Beginning with the farm-house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa; calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life. Engraved on seventy copper-plates. With reference and explanation in letter-press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurements. By John Crunden, architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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On the structure of the brain in marsupial animals / by Richard Owen.
Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892.Date: 1837- Books
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Spermatozoa observed within the mammiferous ovum / by Martin Barry.
Barry, M. (Martin), 1802-1855.Date: 1843- Books
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On the blow-hole of the porpoise / by Francis Sibson ; communicated by Thomas Bell.
Sibson, F. (Francis), 1814-1876.Date: 1848- Books
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On the chemical analysis of the contents of the thoracic duct in the human subject / by G. Owen Rees ; communicated by P.M. Roget.
Rees, G. O. (George Owen), 1813-1889.Date: 1842- Books
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On fibre / by Martin Barry.
Barry, M. (Martin), 1802-1855.Date: 1842- Books
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The blood-corpuscle considered in its different phases of development in the animal series / by T. Wharton Jones.
Jones, Thomas Wharton, 1808-1891.Date: 1846- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; ... Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's architectural library, No.56, High Holborn, London: where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1793?]- Books
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The coal viewer, and engine builder's practical companion. By John Curr, of Sheffield.
Date: 1797- Books
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An appendix, or, Second part to the complete treatise on perspective; Containing a brief history of perspective, from the earliest and most authentic accounts of it, down to the eighteenth century, when it first began to flourish in England; in which the methods of practice, used by the ancients, are exemplisied and compared with those now in use. Military perspective; bird's eye views; &c. The appearances of ascending and descending on an upright plane; such deceptions in vision accounted for, and illustrated by stricking representations: with useful and critical remarks on round subjects in general. The application of perspective to scenery; also to a ship; and in landscape; projection on curved surfaces; with other distortions, or anamorphoses; inverse perspective. Also the doctrine of reflection on plane mirrours. And, lastly, it contains a parallel and criticism on all the English authors who have wrote treatises on perspective; and the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor's perspective compared with Guidus Ubaldus, and S'sgravesande. The whole delivered in nine sections, and illustrated by ten plates. Second edition, with additions and improvements. Price one guinea. By Thomas Malton, sen.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: 1800- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental: Viz. Books of Plans and Elevations for Houses, Temples, Bridges, &c. Of Ornaments for Internal Decorations, Foliage for Carvers, &c. On Perspective. Books of Use to Carpenters, Bricklayers, and Workmen in general, &c. &c. Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's architectural library, no. 56, High Holborn, London. Where may be had the Works of the most celebrated French Architects and Engineers.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1795?]- Books
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Essays on Gothic architecture, by the Rev. T. Warton, Rev. J. Bentham, Captain Grose, and the Rev. J. Milner. (with A Letter To The Publisher.) Illustrated with ten plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient buildings; Calculated To exhibit the various Styles of different Periods.
Date: 1800