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A proposition for a new order in architecture, with rules for drawing the several parts. Shewing The Intercoluminations, Arcades, Windows and Niches of this Composition; and how it is adapted to assemble with the Grecian and Roman Orders: Also the Manner of placing it over the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite Orders. Shewing, likewise, how Columns of this Composition may be doubled for the Support of the Angle of a Building (as Palladio has doubled those of the Doric Order on the projecting Angle in the Front of the Palace of Count Valerio at Vicenza, where the Shafts intersect each other), and have a substantial and regular Effect. With two original designs (which have been executed) of this composition; one of them is a Portico, in which the Columns and Pilasters are Two Feet One Inch Diameter, and Thirty-Six Feet Eight Inches high, ornamented agreeably to those Rules. The other Design is a Bow Window, ornamented with Pilasters. To which are added, two plates of the Gothic screen or Gallery lately executed in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. On thirty-one copper-plates. By Henry Emlyn, F.A.S.
Emlyn, Henry, 1728 or 1729-1815.Date: M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]- Books
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Elements of perspective; containing the nature of light and colours, and the theory and practice of perspective, in regard to lines, surfaces, and solids, with its application to architecture. To which are added rules for painting in transparent water colours. By John Wood Master of the Drawing Academy Established at Edinburgh by the Honourable the Board of Trustees for Manufactories, &c.
Wood, John, Master of the Drawing Academy, Edinburgh.Date: 1799- Books
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Architecture of the brain / by Wm. Fuller.
Fuller, Wm. (William), 1842-Date: 1896- Books
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Architecture in relation to hygiene.
International Congress of Hygiene and Demography.Date: 1892- 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
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Architecture of Solitude : Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England / Peter Fergusson.
Fergusson, Peter, 1934-2022Date: 1984- Books
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The builder's complete assistant; or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial, and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. VII. Mechanick powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Porticos, &c. Proportioned by Modules and Minutes, according to Andrea Palladio; and by Equal Parts. Likewise Great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, obelisks, Vases, Pedestals for Bustos, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axes in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. Wherein the Properties, and Pressure of the Air on Water, &c. are explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large Quarto Copper-Plates. By Batty Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1775?]- Books
The Dutch garden in the seventeenth century / [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XII ; edited by John Dixon Hunt].
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture 1988)Date: [1990], ©1990- Books
Checklist of library building design considerations / [edited by] William W. Sannwald.
Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
Medieval gardens / [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, IX ; edited by Elisabeth B. MacDougall].
Date: [1986], ©1986- 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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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
Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860 : architecture, drawing books, art collections, magazines, navy and army, panoramas, etc., from the library of J. R. Abbey a bibliographical catalogue.
Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896-1969.Date: 1991- Books
Methods for the development of shipboard habitability design criteria / submitted by Hugo Blasdel [and others] ; conducted at the Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley.
Date: 1974- Books
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The Builders compleat assistant, or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. VII. Mechanick Powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by equal parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large Quarto Copper-Plates. By B. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1750]- Books
Garden history : issues, approaches, methods / [edited by John Dixon Hunt].
Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
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The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot. ... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder.
Carter, John, 1748-1817.Date: [between 1794 and 1817]- Books
Library linked data in the cloud : OCLC's experiments with new models of resource description / Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui Wang, Jeffrey K. Mixter.
Godby, Carol JeanDate: [2015]- Books
Ancient Roman villa gardens / [edited by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall].
Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
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George Heriot's Hospital : memories of a modern monk : being reminiscences of life in the Hospital / by Clement B. Gunn ; The Hospital described from an architectural standpoint, by Hippolyte J. Blanc ; Memoir of F.W. Bedford, by Charles Henry Bedford.
Gunn, Clement Bryce, 1860-1933.Date: 1902- Videos
Renal archaeology : The evolution of the intra-renal veins.
Date: c.1980- Film
Renal archaeology : The evolution of the intra-renal veins.
Date: c.1980- Books
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The builders compleat assistant, or a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. Vii. Mechanick Powers. Viii. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. Proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by Equal Parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. Wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates. By B. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1738]- Books
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Howard Association report, October, 1884.
Howard Association (London, England)Date: 1884- Books
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The orientation of buildings, or, Planning for sunlight / by William Atkinson.
Atkinson, William, 1866-Date: 1912