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The country gentleman's pocket companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, Temples, Summer-Houses, Lodges, Huts, Grotto's, &c. in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste, With proper Directions annexed. Also, an exact estimate of their severa amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable. Correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates, from the designs, and under the direction of William and John Halfpenny, architects.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs and plans and elevations, &c. from the Imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China. ... The whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, ... adapted to this climate, by P. Decker, ...
Decker, Paul.Date: 1759- Books
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Chinese architecture. Part the second. Being a large collection of designs of their paling of different kinds, lattice work, &c. For Parks, Paddocks, Terminations for Vistos, Ha Ha's, Common Fence and Garden, Paling, both close and open, Chinese Stiles, Stair-Cases, Galleries, Windows, &c. To which are added, Several Designs of Chinese Vessels, Ewers, Ganges Cups, Tureens, Garden Pots, &c. The whole neatly engraved on twelve copper-plates, from real Chinese designs, improved by P. Decker, Architect.
Decker, Paul.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, ... on sixty copper plates with full instructions or workmen ... by Willm. & Jno Halfpenny ... Divided into four parts.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1752]- Pictures
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Bartlett Alley (subsequently Beckett), Chinatown, San Francisco, California. Photograph, ca. 1880.
Date: 1880Reference: 571415iPart of: United States of America: landscapes, architecture and portraits. Photographs (some by Francis Frith), ca. 1880.