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Courtyard housing for health and happiness : architectural multiculturalism in North America / Donia Zhang.
Zhang, Donia, 1967-Date: [2015]- Books
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A plan of civil and historical architecture, in the representation of the most noted buildings of foreign nations, both ancient and modern: Taken from the most Approv'd Historians, Original Medals, Remarkable Ruins, and Curious Authentick Designs; and display'd in eighty-six double folio-plates, finely engraven, At a very Great Expence, by the most Eminent Hands; divided into five books. Containing. Book I. Twenty-Two Plates of the Ancient Jewish, Egyptian, Syrian, Persian and Grecian Edifices, Monuments, Pyramids, &c. in which the Manners of Structure used by those Nations, and bury'd in the Ruins of Barbarity, are restor'd, and set in a true Light. Book II. Fifteen Plates of the Ancient, and least known Roman Buildings. Book III. Fifteen Plates describing the Buildings of the Arabians, Turks, &c. and some Modern One's of the Persians, Siamese, Chinese, and Japonese. Book IV. Twenty-One Plates of Modern Structures, invented, and in Part executed, by the Author. Book V. Thirteen Plates of Ancient Egyptian, Grecian and Roman Urns and Vases; to which are added some Modern One's, partly invented by the Author. All drawn with Excellent Skill, and the Utmost Diligence; By Mr. John Bernhard Fischer, of Erlach; Principal Architect, and Chief Surveyor of the Works, to His Present Imperial Majesty. First published at Leipzig, with the Explanations of all the Plates, in German and French, out of the best Ancient and Modern Writers; and now faithfully translated into English, with large additional notes; by Thomas Lediard, Esq; Late Secretary to His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary in Lower Germany.
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656-1723.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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A new book of Chinese designs calculated to improve the present taste. Consisting of figures, buildings, & furniture, landskips, birds, beasts, flowrs. [sic] and ornaments; &c. By Messrs. Edwards, and Darly.
Edwards and Darly (Engravers)Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste: including a great variety of book-cases for libraries or private rooms. commodes, library and writing-tables, buroes, breakfast-tables, dressing and China-tables, China-cases, hanging-shelves, tea-chests, trays, fire-screens, chairs, settees, sopha's, beds, presses and cloaths-chests, pier-glass sconces, slab frames, brackets, candle-stands, clock-cases, frets. And other ornaments. To which is prefixed, a short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified: the whole comprehended in one hundred and sixty copper-plates, neatly engraved, calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life. By Thomas Chippendale, of St. Martin's-Lane, Cabinet-Maker.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the gothic, Chinese and modern taste: including a great variety of book-cases for libraries or private rooms. Commodes, library and writing-tables, buroes, breakfast-tables, dressing and china-tables, china-cases, hanging-shelves, tea-chests, trays, fire-screens, chairs, settees, sopha's, beds, presses and cloaths-chests, pier-glass sconces, slab frames, brackets, candle-stands, clock-cases, frets, and other ornaments. To which is prefixed. A short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified: the whole comprehended in one hundred and sixty copper-plates, neatly engraved. Calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life. By Thomas Chippendale, of St. Martin's-lane, cabinet-maker.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.Date: [1754]- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden-seats, palings, obelisks, termini, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen, annexed to each particular design. A near estimate of their charge, and hints where, with most advantage, to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1755?]- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings, obelisks, termini's, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen annex'd to each particular design; a near estimate of their charge, and hints where with most advantage to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament, Feb 1, 1751.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Pictures
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Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: 15 March 1866Reference: 25058i- Books
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The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or pocket director. Containing, sixty different designs, entirely New and Useful. Forty of which are Gothic, Chinese, Mosaic, and Ornamental Frets, Proper for Friezes, Imposts, Architraves, Tabernacle Frames, Book-Cases, Tea Tables, Tea Stands, Trays, Stoves, and Fenders. And Twenty new and beautiful Designs for Gothic, Modern, and Ornamental Fan-Lights For Over-Doors, in the most elegant Taste. Calculated for the universal Use of Carpenters, Joyners, Cabinet-Makers, Masons, Plaisterers, Smiths, &c. &c. And intended to assist the Nobility and Gentry in their Choice. The whole designed and engraved by John Crunden, architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
Taoism and the arts of China / Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman ; with essays by Patricia Ebrey [and others].
Little, Stephen, 1954-Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Mappa mundi / Qui Zhijie.
Qui, Zhijie, 1969-Date: [2019]- Books
China's longest campaign : birth planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005 / Tyrene White.
White, Tyrene, 1956-Date: 2006- Pictures
Ningbo, Zhejiang, China: Ningbo Tianhou Temple or Qingan Guildhall. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870Reference: 18956i- Pictures
Temple of Confucius (Kong Miao), Peking: Hall of Great Accomplishment (or Great Perfection Hall, Dachengdian), interior with altar and tablet to Confucius. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: [1871]Reference: 19524i- Pictures
Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: a monk ringing the bell. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870-1871Reference: 19510i- Books
Graphics and text in the production of technical knowledge in China : the warp and the weft / edited by Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Georges Métailié.
Date: 2007- Pictures
Chemo Day Drawings
Smith, ClareDate: 2019-- Books
Making sense of medicine : material culture and the reproduction of medical knowledge / edited by John Nott and Anna Harris ; with special contributions by Rachel Vaden Allison, Harro van Lente, Candida F. Sánchez Burmester, Andrea Wojcik and Sally Wyatt.
Date: 2022- Archives and manuscripts
Clare Smith: archives
Clare SmithDate: 2019-2020sReference: PP/CSM- Archives and manuscripts
Calendars
Date: 1887-1994Reference: WF/M/PB/31Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a temple. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870Reference: 18952i- Archives and manuscripts
Circulars Book 37
Date: 1931-1932Reference: WF/M/GB/01/37Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd