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The rudiments of ancient architecture, in two parts. Containing an historical account of the five orders, with their proportions and Examples of each from the Antiques; also Vitruvius on the temples and intercolumniations, &c. of the ancients . Calculated for the Use of those who wish to attain a summary Knowledge of the Science of Architecture. With a dictionary of terms. Illustrated with ten plates.
Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Practical architecture, or a sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science: representing the five orders, with their several doors & windows taken from Inigo Jones & other Celebrated Architects to each Plate Tables Containing the exact Proportions of the several Parts are likewise fitted Very usefull to all true Lovers of architecture, but particularly so to those who are engag'd in y Noble Art of Building By Willm. Halfpenny.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1724?]- Books
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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for Piers, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney-Pieces, Tabernacle-Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochi's, Pulpits, Types, Altar-Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sun-Dials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book-Cases, Cielings, and Iron Works. Proportioned by Aliquot parts. With an appendix of fourteen plates of Trusses for Girders and beams, different Sorts of rafters, and a Variety of Roofs, &c. To which are prefix'd, The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose Members are proportioned by aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner than has yet been done. The whole interspersed With sure rules for working all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate Use of workmen, never published before, in any Language. By B. L.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1750- 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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A new and accurate method of delineating all the parts of the different orders in architecture, by means of a well contriv'd, and most easily manag'd instrument; whereon the just proportions of the principal members, and of their several parts, are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the difficulty of the fractional parts that usually attend these operations. English'd from the original Italian of Octavio Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie, Gent.
Revesi Bruti, Ottavio.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- 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, 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. In Two Volumes.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.Date: M.DCC.XXI. [1721]- Books
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Practical architecture; or, a sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science: representing the five orders, with their several doors and windows. taken from Inigo Jones, And other celebrated Architects. To each Plate, Tables, containing the exact Proportions of the several Parts, are likewise fitted. Very useful to all true Lovers of architecture, But particularly so to those who are engaged in the Noble Art of Building; By William Halfpenny.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1780?]- 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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Proposals for engraving, and printing, in folio, A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture ... Written in French by Claude Perrault ... Subscriptions are taken by John Sturt.
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.Date: 1707]- Books
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Andrea Palladios' first book of architecture, corrected from his original edition printed at Venice, 1581, wherein is pointed out the various mistakes and contradictions between the chapters and figur'd draughts; laid down both Geometrical, and in Perspective, in an entire new and easy Method. To these are added, thirteen different designs for pavements, halls, lobbies, &c. Ten of which are entirely new. The Whole being design'd to render this Science more useful to Gentlemen Draughtsmen, and Builders in general; more particular to those who desire to attain to the Knowledge of Perspective. These Examples are explained and demonstrated in a Manner so easy, that any Person who has the least Notion of drawing a Geometrical Design, may, with little Trouble, by the Help of this Treatise alone, lay down the same in Perspective. In twenty-eight copper-plates. By William Halfpenny.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]- Pictures
The five senses and the five orders of architecture. Engravings attributed to Justus Sadeler, ca. 1600.
Date: [1600?]Reference: 654707i