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The chymist’s trade card
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
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The birth of the public museum
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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
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A miscellany on taste. By Mr. Pope, &c. Viz. I. of taste in architecture. An epistle to the Earl of Burlington. With notes variorum, and a compleat key. II. Of Mr. Pope's taste in divinity, viz. the fall of man, and the first Psalm. Translated for the use of a young lady. III. Of Mr. Pope's taste of Shakespeare. IV. - His satire on Mrs. P-y. V. Mr. Congreve's fine epistle on retirement and taste. Address'd to Lord Cobham.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1732- Books
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
Views of Cheltenham 1786-1860, topographical prints of a regency town : the catalogue of an exhibition held at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Clarence Street, Cheltenham, 14 July - 25 August 1984, being also a guide to the Art Gallery and Museums' collection of Cheltenham prints / exhibition organised and catalogue written by Steven Blake.
Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
The art of writing and drawing : a selection of one hundred books from the Ekström Collection in the National Library for Psychology and Education, Stockholm a descriptive and annotated catalogue of 16th through 18th rare and important books on calligraphy - perspective - architecture - drawing - anatomy - colours and related arts / compiled by Ove Hagelin.
Hagelin, Ove.Date: 1987- Books
200 Jahre seit der Gründung des Allgemeinen Krankenhauses in Prag / Ludmila Hlaváčková.
Hlaváčková, Ludmila.Date: 1989