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Architecture of the brain / by Wm. Fuller.
Fuller, Wm. (William), 1842-Date: 1896- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental Viz. Books Of Plans And Elevations For Cottages, Farm-Houses, Mansions, &c. Temples, Bridges, &c. Of Ornaments for internal Decorations, Foliage for Carvers, &c. ON Perspective. Books of Use for Carpenters, Bricklayers, and Workmen In General, &c. &c. Which, with the best Ancient Authors, are constantly on sale at J. Taylor's Architectural Library, No.59 High Holborn, London. Where May BE Had, The Works of the most celebrated French Architects and Engineers.
Taylor, J. (Josiah).Date: [1800?]- Books
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The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centring for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a new Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and Two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases: with many other important Articles and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper-plates, with Explanations to each. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: 1799- Books
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Architecture in relation to hygiene.
International Congress of Hygiene and Demography.Date: 1892- Books
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The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centering for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a New Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases, with many other important Articles, and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, With Explanations to each, By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- 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
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
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The architecture of A. Palladio; in four books. Containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building: as also the different construction of private and publick houses, High-Ways, Bridges, Market-Places, Xystes, and Temples, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. Revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian, Architect to His Most Serene Highness, the Late Elector Palatine. Translated from the Italian original. The third edition, corrected. With notes and remarks of Inigo Jones: Now first taken from his Original Manuscript in Worcester College Library, Oxford. And also, An appendix, containing the Antiquities of Rome. Written by A. Palladio. And a Discourse of the fires of the Ancients. Never before Translated. In two volumes.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- 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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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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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
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
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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
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Pain's British Palladio: or, the builder's general assistant. Demonstrating in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated With Several New and Useful Designs of Houses, with their Plans, Elevations, and Sections. Also, Clear and Ample Instructions, annexed to each Subject, in Letter-Press; with a List of Prices for Materials and Labour, and Labour only. This Work will be universally useful to all Carpenters, Bricklayers, Masons, Joiners, Plaisterers, and others, concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. comprehending the following Subjects, viz. Plans, Elevations, and Sections, of Gentlemen's Houses. Designs for Doors, Chimneys, and Ceilings, with their proper Embellishments, in the most modern Taste. A great Variety of Mouldings, for Base and Surbase Architraves, Imposts, Friezes, and Cornices, with their proper Ornaments, for Practice, drawn to Half-Size: To which are added, Scales for enlarging or lessening at Pleasure. Also, great Variety of Stair-Cases; shewing the practical Method of executing them, in any Case required, viz. Groins, Angle-Brackets, Circular Circular Flewing and Winding Soffits, Domes, Sky-Lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest Capacity. The Proportion of Windows for the Light to Rooms. Preparing Foundations; the Proportion of Chimneys to Rooms, and Sections of Flews. The principal Timbers properly laid out, on each Plan, viz. the Manner of framing the Roofs, and finding the Length and Backing of Hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the Timbers, figured in Proportion to their Bearing. The Method for trussing Girders, Scarfing Plates, &c. And many other Articles, particularly useful to all Persons in the Building Profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, fro the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Pain's British palladio: or, The builder's general assistant. Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections. Also, clear and ample instructions annexed to each subject, in letter-press; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. This work will be universally useful to all carpenters, bricklayers, masons, joiners, plaisterers, and other concerned in the several branches of building, &c. comprehending the following subjects, viz. Plans, elevations, and sections of gentlemen's houses. designs for doors, chimneys, and ceilings, with their proper embellishments, in the most modern taste. A great variety of mouldings, for base and surbase architraves, imposts, friezes and cornices, with their proper ornaments, for practice, drawn to half-size: to which are added, scales for enlarging or lessening at pleasure. Also, great variety of stair-cases; shewing the practical method of executing them, in any case required, viz. groins, angle-brackets, circular flewing and winding soffits, domes, sky-lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest capacity. The proportion of windows for the light to rooms. Preparing foundations; the proportion of chimneys to rooms, and sections of flews. The principal timbers properly laid out, on each plan, viz. the manner of framing the roofs, and finding the length and backing of hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the timbers, figured in proportion to their bearing. The method for trussing girders, scarsing plates, &c. And many other articles, particularly useful to all persons in the building profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [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
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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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
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
Garden history : issues, approaches, methods / [edited by John Dixon Hunt].
Date: [1992], ©1992- 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. Taylors'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: 1796?]- Books
Ancient Roman villa gardens / [edited by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall].
Date: [1987], ©1987