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Gail E Schrader, Manager Photographic Section
Date: 18 May 2001Reference: WF/M/AV/O/02/29Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The character of the Russians and a detailed history of Moscow. Illustrated with numerous engravings. With a dissertation on the Russian language; and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia, &c. &c / By Robert Lyall.
Lyall, Robert, 1790-1831.Date: 1823- Books
The provincial asylum in Toronto : reflections on social and architectural history / editor Edna Hudson.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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A catalogue of a large collection of useful and valuable books: Of the most approved Authors, in all Languages, Arts, and Sciences, and in the several Branches of Learning, including a A very good collection of architecture, Many of them beautiful Impressions and very scarce, with several other Libraries and Parcels of books, all lately purchased: Among many others are the following in Folio. Viz. L'architecture, par Desgodetz, scarce Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent fine Copycampbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 v. Ruins of Palmyra, Balbec, and Athens Ware's Body of Architecture Chambers's Civil Architecture Kirby's Perspective in Architecture, 2 v. Gibbs's Designs, and Rules for Drawing Swan's Designs, and British Architect. Rapin, Tindal, Guthrie, Ralph, Echard and Smollet's History of England Clarendon's Rebellion and Life, 4 vol. Universal History, 8 vol. Burnet's Reformation, 3 vol. ... Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, fine copy Burton's Leicestershire, very scare Dart's Cantebury, large and small p. Biographia Britannica, 5 vol. Hughes's History of Barbadoes Cambden's Britannia by Gibson, 2 vol. Dictionaries, viz. Johnson, 2 vol. Chambers, 2 vol. Postlethwayte, 2 vol. Bayle, 5 vol. Ainsworth, 2 vol. and Harris, 2 vol. Fox's Book of Martyrs, 3 vol. l. p. Grafton's and Holinshed's Chronicles Guy's Bible, Russia, Eleg. Houbraken's Heads of illustrious Persions, large paper Blair's Chronological Tables, fine copy Locke's Works, 3 vol. Raleigh's History of the World, 2 vol. Grabe Septuagint, 2 tom. Loon's Histoire Metallique, 5 tom. Miller's Gardener's Dictionary Smith and Bloom's History of the Bible Wood's Body of Conveyancing, 3 vol. Bacon's new Abridgment, 4 vol. ... Fountains in the Gardens at Rome, 2 v. Brook Taylor, and Pozzo's Perspective Leoni, Ware, and Cole's Palladio Vignola and Scamozzi's Architecture Motraye's Travels, 2 vol. Lily's Practical Register, 2 vol. best edit. Salkield, Shower, Vernon, and Saunders's Reports Jacob's Law Dictionary Which will begin to be sold (very Cheap for ready Money only) (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) On Monday, Feb. the 15th, 1762, and will continue Daily Selling. By A. Webley, Bookseller, At the Bible and Crown in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane. Where is given the full Value in ready Money for any Library, or Parcel of books, particularly in Architecture.
Webley, A., bookseller.Date: 1762]- Books
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Catalogue of books, for sale or circulation by William P. Blake, at the Boston book-store, no. 59, Cornhill. Consisting of the most celebrated authors in history, voyages, travels, lives, memoirs, antiquities, philosophy, novels, divinity, law, physic, surgery, chemistry, geography, husbandry, navigation, arts, sciences, architecture, miscellanies, poetry, plays, &c. &c.
Blake, William Pynson, 1769-1820.Date: 1796- Books
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Literary memoirs of Germany and the north, being a choice collection of essays on the following interesting subjects, viz. alchemy, Algebra & Analysis, Anatomy, Animal Oeconomy, Architecture, Astronomy, Chemistry, Chronology, Geography, Hydraulics, Hydrology, Levelling, Literary History, Logic, Manufactures, Mechanics, Medicine, Metallurgy, Meterology, Mineralogy, Natural History, Optics, Surgery, agriculture, &c. &c. Done from the Latin and High-Dutch, by a Society of Gentlemen. In two volumes. ... . Illustrated with copper-plates.
Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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An authentic history of the professors of painting, sculpture, & architecture, who have practised in Ireland; involving original letters from Sir Joshua Reynolds, which prove him to have been illiterate. To which are added, memoirs of the Royal Academicians; Being an Attempt to Improve the Taste of the Realm. by Anthony Pasquin, Esq.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: [1796]- Books
The baths of Acqui : city planning and architecture for treatment and leisure / Alessandro Martini.
Martini, Alessandro.Date: [2009]- Books
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The life of Benvenuto Cellini: a Florentine artist. Containing A Variety of Curious and Interesting Particulars, relative to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; and The History of his own Time. Written by himself in the Tuscan language, and translated from the original By Thomas Nugent, L.L.D. F.S.A. in two volumes. ...
Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
Ancient Roman gardens / [edited by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and Wilhelmina F. Jashemski].
Date: 1981- Books
Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.
Laudan, Rachel, 1944-Date: [2013], ©2013- Books
Corpus sanum in domo sano : l'architecture du mouvement en faveur de la salubrité domestique, 1870-1914 = Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano the architecture of the domestic sanitation movement, 1870-1914 / [text by Annmarie Adams, translation by Catherine Roberge].
Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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The Chinese Empire illustrated : being a series of views from original sketches, displaying the scenery, architecture, social habits etc. of that ancient and exclusive nation / by Thomas Allom ; with historical and descriptive letterpress by G.N. Wright. The work will also contain a succinct account of the history of China : a narrative of British connexion with that nation, the opium war of 1840, and full details of the causes and events of the present war.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: [1858?]- Books
Through the healing glass : shaping the modern body through glass architecture, 1925-35 / John Stanislav Sadar.
Sadar, John StanislavDate: 2016- Books
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A philosophical and critical history of the fine arts, painting, sculpture, and architecture: with occasional observations on the progress of engraving, in it's several branches, deduced from the earliest records, through every country in which those arts have been cherished, to their present establishment in Great-Britain, under the auspices of His Majesty King George III. In four parts. By the Rev. Robert Anthony Bromley, B.D. Rector of St. Mildred's in the Poultry, and Minister of Fitzroy-Chapel, London.
Bromley, Robert Anthony, 1735-1806.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
The history of progress in Great Britain / by Robert Kemp Philp ; with numerous illustrations by W. Newman [and others].
Philp, Robert Kemp, 1819-1882.Date: 1859-1860- Books
The history of the arts and sciences of the antients: in three volumes / by Mr. Rollin. Translated from the French.
Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741.Date: 1768- Books
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Munimenta antiqua; or, observations on antient castles. Including remarks on the whole progress of architecture, ecclesiastical, as well as military, in Great Britain: And ON The Corresponding Changes, In Manners, Laws, And Customs. Tending Both To Illustrate Modern History: And To Elucidate Many Interesting Passages In Various Antient Classic Authors. By Edward King, Esq. F.R.S. And A.S. ...
King, Edward, 1735?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]- Books
Ancient Roman villa gardens / [edited by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall].
Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
History beyond the text : a student's guide to approaching alternative sources / edited by Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird.
Date: 2009- Books
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Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain. Giving a true and just description of the present state of those countries; their natural, literary, and political history; manners, laws, commerce, manufactures, painting, sculpture, architecture, coins, antiquities, curiosities of art and nature, etc / Illus. with copper-plates, engr. from drawings taken on the spot, by John George Keysler. Carefully translated from the second edition of the German.
Keyssler, Johann Georg, 1693-1743.Date: 1756-1757- Books
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Sacred power, sacred space : an introduction to Christian architecture and worship / Jeanne Halgren Kilde.
Kilde, Jeanne Halgren, 1957-Date: 2008- Books
The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States / Carla Yanni.
Yanni, Carla.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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Florentine new towns : urban design in the late Middle Ages / David Friedman.
Friedman, David, 1943 August 15-Date: [1988], ©1988- Books
Criminal intimacy : prison and the uneven history of modern American sexuality / Regina Kunzel.
Kunzel, Regina G., 1959-Date: 2008