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Columns of the temple at Idfu, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: 1 August 1846Reference: 31899iPart of: Egypt and Nubia- Books
Food: An Exhibition by White Columns, New York.
Morris, Catherine- Archives and manuscripts
Greenland, C. - Advice Columns A Psycho-Social Study
Date: 1958Reference: DGH1/6/18/80Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Pictures
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The Hall of Columns, Karnac, Egypt; stereoscopic views. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1856/1859.
Frith, Francis.Date: 1856-1859Reference: 567545i- Pictures
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The Hall of Columns, Karnac, Egypt; showing hieroglyphic marks; stereoscopic views. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1856/1859.
Frith, Francis.Date: 1856-1859Reference: 567544i- Books
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The laws of William the Conqueror, with notes and references. I. The Laws of William (being the same, as the Title imports, which Edward the Confessor observed before him) in three Columns; viz. the Laws themselves in the Norman Language, with Dr. Wilkins's Latin Translation of them in opposite Columns; and an English Translation in another Column, with Notes; and also References from each Law, to the Anglo-Saxon Laws. II. The 52d, 55th, 58th, 59th and 63d Laws, in Latin, of William, which, towards the latter End of his Reign, he added to those of Edward the Confessor, and by which he established the Feodal System here; translated into English, with occasional Notes. By Robert Kelham, Of Lincolns-Inn.
Kelham, Robert, 1717-1808.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
[Jo Spence zine / compiled by Christabel Stewart].
Spence, JoDate: 2013]- Books
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Clarendon against Lesly; or, the Difference between Two Restorations: the one, Legally Effected, of Charles the Second the other, Illegally Attempted by a Popish Pretender. Drawn up in opposite Columns for the Use of the Publick.
Date: 1715- Archives and manuscripts
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Some medical aspects of L(ong) R(ange) P(atrols), by Captain Harry William Whateley Good, Regimental Medical Officer to the Fourth Battalion, The Border Regiment, when they formed 34 and 55 Columns of "Chindits" in Burma
Date: 1944Reference: RAMC/1789Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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The builder's vade-mecum: or, a complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where, by Way of Dialogue in Nine Lectures, the Etymology, Characters, Proportions, Profiles, Ornaments, Measures and Dispositions of the Members of their several Columns and Entablatures are distinctly consider'd and explain'd, with respect to the Practice of Palladio. Together with the manner of drawing the geometrical elevation of the five orders of columns in Architecture, and to measure the several Parts of Buildings in general: illustrated on seven copper-plates, being a necessary Companion for all Gentlemen, as well as Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, &c. And all Others concern'd in the several Parts of Buildings in general. By B. Langley, of Twickenham.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1735- Books
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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces, Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. Proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts. Engraved on 184 Copper Plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to draw from and work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1767- Books
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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces. Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts, The like never before Published. Engraved on 184 Copper Plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to Draw from and Work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1747- Books
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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples. Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces, Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. Proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts. The like never before Published. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to Draw from and Work after. By Batty Langley, Architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1751- Books
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The builder's bench-mate: or inestimable pocket companion, making easy to the meanest capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick orders of architecture, by near five hundred examples taken from the ancients, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Frizes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces, Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. Proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts. Never done so before. Engraved on 184 copper-plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, Free from the erroncous Measures publish'd in the Editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c. Written For the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen, to Draw from, and Work after. By Batty Langley, Architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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The builder's chest-book; or a complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where by way of Dialogue in Nine Lectures the Etymology, Characters, Proportions, Profiles, Ornaments, Measures and Dispositions of the Members of their several Columns and Entablatures are distinctly considered and explain'd with respect to the Practice of Pallaaio. Together With the manner of drawing the Geometrical Elevation of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, and to measure the several Parts of Buildings in general. The whole exemplified by way of Dialogue, in a very concise and familiar manner, illustrated on seven copper-plates: Being a necessary Companion for Gentlemen, as well as Masons, Carpenters, Joyners, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Painters, &c. and all others concern'd in the several Parts of Buildings in general. By B. Langley of Twickenham.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture, Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Wherein The Proportions and Characters of the Members Of their several Pedestals, Columns and Entablatures, Are distinctly consider'd with respect to the Practice of the Antients and Moderns. Also A most Natural, Easie and Practicable Method laid down for determining the mostminute Part in all the Orders, without a Fraction. To which is annex'd, a discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture. Engraven on six folio plates of the Several Orders adorn'd with Twenty-Four borders, as many initial letters, and a like number of tail-pieces, b John Sturt. Written in French by Claude Perrault, Of the Royal Academy of Paris. Author of Ye Celebrated Comment on Vitruvius. Made English by John James of Greenwich.
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.Date: [1708]- Books
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Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar, by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas; Whether Of Towers, Forts, Trees, Pyramids, Columns, Wells, Ships, Hills, Clouds, Thunder and Lightning, Atmosphere, Sun, Moon, Mountains in the Moon, Shadows of Earth and Moon, Beginning and End of Eclipses, &c. In which is also shewn, A Curious Trigonometrical Method of discovering the Places where Bees hive in large Woods, in order to obtain, more readily, the salutary Produce of those little Insects. By the Rev. Mr. Turner, later of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford, Author of The View of the Earth;-View of the Heavens;-System of Gauging; and Chronologer Perpetual.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- 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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A paraphrase on the four Evangelists. Wherein, For the Clearer Understanding of the Sacred History, the whole Text and paraphrase are printed in separate Columns over-against each other. With Critical Notes on the more difficult passages. Very Useful for Families. In two volumes. by Samuel Clarke, D. D. late Rector of St James's Westminster. The ninth edition. ...
Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- 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 Superficies; Plain Trigonometry, and Surveying of Land. With twenty-three 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.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances. Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working. I. The Five Orders of Columns entire; or any Part of an Order, without Regard to the Module or Diameter. And to enrich them With their Rusticks, Flutings, Cablings, Dentules, Modilions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, and Arcades. Together With Fourteen Varieties of Raking, Circular, Scroll'd, Compound, and Contracted Pediments; and the true Formation and Accadering of their Raking and returned Cornices; and Mouldings for Capping their Dentules and Modilions. II. Block and Cantaliver Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Cornices proportioned to Rooms, Angle Brackets, Mouldings for Tabernacle Framer, Pannelling, and Centering for Groins, Truss'd Partitions, Girders, Roofs, and Domer. With a Section of the Dome of St. Paul's, London. The Whole illustrated by upwards of 200 Examples, engraved on 100 Copper-Plates. By B. and T. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining short and easy rules. Made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working, I. The Five Orders of Columns entire: or any Part of an Order, without Regard to the Module or Diameter. And to enrich them With their Rusticks, Flutings, Cablings, Dentules, Modillions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, and Arcades. Together with Fourteen Varieties of Raking, Circular, Scrolled, Compound, and Contracted Pediments; and the true Formation and Accadering of their Raking and Returned Cornices; and Mouldings for Capping their Dentules and Modillions. II. Block and Cantaliver Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Cornices proportioned to Rooms, Angle Brackets, Mouldings for Tabernacle Frames, Pannelling, and Centering for Groins, Trussed Partitions, Girders, Roofs and Domes. With 8 Section of the Dome of St. Paul's, London. The Whole illustrated by upwards of 200 Examples, engraved on 100 Copper-Plates. By B. and T. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1768- Books
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The builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made familiar to the meanest Capacity, For Drawing and Working, I. The Five Orders of Columns entire; or any Part of an Order, without Regard to the Module or Diameter. And to enrich them With their Rusticks, Fluting, Saburg, Dentules, Modillions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, and Arcades. Together with Fourteen Varieties of Raking, Circular, Scrolled, Compound, and Contracted Pediments; and the true Formation and Accadering of their Raking and Returned Cornices; and Mouldings for Capping their Dentules and Modillions. II. Block and Cantaliver Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Cornices proportioned to Rooms, Angle Brackets, Mouldings for Tabernacle Frames, Pannelling, and Centering for Groins, Trussed Partitions, Girders, Roofs and Domes. With a Section of the Dome of St. Paul's, London. The Whole illustrated by upwards of 200 Examples, engraved on 100 Copper-Plates. By B. and T. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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The builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made familiar to the meanest Capacity, For Drawing and Working, I. The Five Orders of Columns entire; or any Part of an Order, without Regard to the Module or Diameter. And to enrich them With their Rusticks, Flutings, Cablings, Dentules, Modillions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, and Arcades. Together With fourteen Varieties of Raking, Circular, Scrolled, Compound, and Contracted Pediments; and the true Formation and Accadering of their Raking and returned Cornices; and Mouldings for Capping their Dentules and Modillions. II. Block and Cantaliver Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Cornices proportioned to Rooms, Angle Brackets, Mouldings for Tabernacle Frames, Pannelling, and Centering for Groins, Trussed Partitions, Girders, Roofs and Domes. With a Section of the Dome of St. Paul's London. The Whole illustrated by upwards of 200 Examples, engraved on 100 Copper-Plates. By B. and T. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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The British architect: or, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions called Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to glue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules Of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described. The whole being illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples, curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Carpenter.
Swan, Abraham.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]