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1. Traité des manieres de dessiner les ordres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties : auec plusieurs belles particularitez qui nont point parû jusques a present, touchat. les bastimts. de marque comme, la naturelle entresuitte des gros et menüs membres de l'eurs degrez ou escaliers : puis, le moyen darrester par dessein et modelle en petit, les parties d'vn edifice, en sorte q'uestant executé en grand, il fasse l'effet que l'on senst proposé, et enfin, la pratique de trouuer la place geometrale des jours ombres et ombrages, sur les corps geometraux / par A. Bosse.

Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: MVICLXIIII [1664, i.e. 1665]
Physical Description:: [3], XLIV leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

Creator:: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

Creator:: Montano, Giovanni Battista, 1545–1621
Date:: 1684
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer / by B. and T. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 34, [2] p., [99] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:: [12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. XXX. pieces d'architecture : tirees du tres exellent auteur Vincent Scamozze : et autres : tres necessaire a ceux qui sont Proffession de cet Art = XXX. pieces of architecture : taken out of the famous Author Vincent Scamozze : and others : Very necessary for all those that are affected to the said Art.

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1660.]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

Creator:: Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:: 1664
Physical Description:: [1], A-V leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

Creator:: Guarini, Guarino, 1624–1683
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: [8], 307, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The carpenters companion : being an accurate and compleat treatise of carpenters works : in which is contained various sorts of timber-floors, partitions, bridges ... : to which is added, the five orders of architecture, in a more easy and concise method than any yet published ... / by James Smith.

Creator:: Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:: 1733
Physical Description:: [1], x, 11-31 p., [41] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The Grecian orders of architectvre : delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens : also the parallels of the orders of Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola : to which are added remarks concerning pvblick abd private edifices, with designs.

Creator:: Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [20], 78 pages, 18, 10 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], 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 prefixed, 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.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. 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 Ottavio Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie, Gent.

Creator:: Revesi Bruti, Ottavio
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: 52 p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A nevv book of architecture : wherein is represented fourty figures of gates and arches triumphant, composed of different inventions according to the five orders of columnes, viz. the Tuscane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite / by Alexander Francine ... ; with a description of each figure ; set forth by Robert Pricke, for the use and benefit of all ingenious workmen that are concerned in eminent building.

Creator:: Francine, Alexandre, -1648
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [4] pages, XXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates.

Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 36 p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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 ... / by B. and T. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. 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 ... / by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: [3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. An essay in defence of ancient architecture, or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern : , shewing [sic] the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter : with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders : to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful / by Robert Morris ; illustrated with sixteen copper-plates.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1728
Physical Description:: xxviii, 114, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: second half of the 15th century
Physical Description:: 1 volume ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:: [8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The principles of ancient masonry, or, A general system of building compleated : wherein the theory and practice of architecture are universally demonstrated : comprising all the arts and sciences necessary to be understood for the attaining a just knowledge of building, in a more concise and easy manner than has been yet attempted to be made public, viz : arithmetick, vulgar and decimal : practical geometry : plain trigonometry : mensuration in general : surveying of land, &c. : architecture universally apply'd : perspective : mechanicks : dialing : painting and staining glass : interspersed with proper introductions, remarks, and observations : in which great care is taken to omit everything that is superfluous, and insert nothing but what is really useful : the whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty large folio copper plates, engraven by the best hands : exemplifying the several arts and proportions of the five order of columns, in a very great variety of useful designs of plans, elevations, and sections of building in general : by a society of the most experienced practitioners and workmen in building, and the several branches of learning relating thereto.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1733
Physical Description:: [2], 434, xi, [23] pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy... : by nearly 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient andmodern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... : engraved on 184 copper plates: wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ... / by Batty Langley ...

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: xxiv p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The first book of architecture / by Andrea Palladio ; translated out of Italian ; with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. LeMuet ... ; translated out of French by G. R. ...

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: [10], 32, [1], 36-159, [29], 191-198, [19] p. 218, [3], p. 220, [3], p. 226, [3], p. 230, [3], p. 234, [2], 237-239 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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 ... / by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: [1764?]
Physical Description:: [3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... / by Batty Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: [1790?]
Physical Description:: xxiv, [184] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus ... ; and engraved by B. Cole.

Creator:: Hoppus, E. (Edward), d. 1739
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 101 p., lxxxiv leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A brief and plain description of the five orders of columns of architecture : viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Roman and Corinthian, with their architraves, friezes and cornishes / by Simon Bosboon, the city-mason of Amsterdam. According to that most eminent and excellent architect Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. And reduced into minutes, with a diagonal sccale, very useful and necessary for all mason, bricklayers, carpenters, joyners, painters, carvers, plaisterers, turner, etc. Very plan and easie for all lovers and young practitioners, of this art of architecture.

Creator:: Bosboom, Simon, 1614–1670
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [8] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Vignola revived : wherein is shown the true and most elegant proportions of the five orders as laid down by that great master : illustrated by two hundred and twenty-seven designs of palaces and other magnificent buildings : executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere : neatly engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates : adapted not only to the general use of architecture, but herein particular subjects are treated with the greatest accuracy, viz. : the five orders; columns, symbolical, &c. &c. doors, windows, niches, &c. cornishes, French and Italian ; ballustrades, mosaic work, mouldings, &c., sections of rooms, with designs for furniture; ornamental iron-work for various purposes; temples, grotto's, and summer retreats, for parks, gardens, &c. plan, elevations, and sections of the castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a church, pallaces [sic], &c. : with many other particulars relative to the art of building.

Creator:: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Reghel van de vijf ordens der architecture / oversien, vermeerdert, ende uyt het groot int cleyn ghebracht door Mr. Muet.

Creator:: Vignola, 1507–1573
Date:: 1638
Physical Description:: 16 pages, 50 leaves of plates ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A treatise on the five orders of architecture : in which the principles of that art are illustrated by elegant and correct examples, ... accompanied with observations made on several of the antiquities at Rome, and various parts of Italy, ... and ... France, ... / by George Richardson, architect = Traité des cinq ordres d'architecture, ... par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: x, 32, [2] pages, xxii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Magnificent inventions : Jones's architectural orders as emblems of royal triumph / Vaughan Hart.

Creator:: Hart, Vaughan, 1960–
Date:: c2011
Physical Description:: p. [57]- 89 : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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4. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

5. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer / by B. and T. Langley.

6. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

8. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

9. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

14. The Grecian orders of architectvre : delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens : also the parallels of the orders of Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola : to which are added remarks concerning pvblick abd private edifices, with designs.

18. A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates.

19. 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 ... / by B. and T. Langley.

20. 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 ... / by William Halfpenny.

23. Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura.

27. The first book of architecture / by Andrea Palladio ; translated out of Italian ; with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. LeMuet ... ; translated out of French by G. R. ...

28. 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 ... / by William Halfpenny.

29. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... / by Batty Langley.

30. The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus ... ; and engraved by B. Cole.

33. Reghel van de vijf ordens der architecture / oversien, vermeerdert, ende uyt het groot int cleyn ghebracht door Mr. Muet.

35. Magnificent inventions : Jones's architectural orders as emblems of royal triumph / Vaughan Hart.

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4. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

5. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer / by B. and T. Langley.

6. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

8. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

9. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

14. The Grecian orders of architectvre : delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens : also the parallels of the orders of Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola : to which are added remarks concerning pvblick abd private edifices, with designs.

18. A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates.

19. 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 ... / by B. and T. Langley.

20. 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 ... / by William Halfpenny.

23. Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura.

27. The first book of architecture / by Andrea Palladio ; translated out of Italian ; with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. LeMuet ... ; translated out of French by G. R. ...

28. 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 ... / by William Halfpenny.

29. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... / by Batty Langley.

30. The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus ... ; and engraved by B. Cole.

33. Reghel van de vijf ordens der architecture / oversien, vermeerdert, ende uyt het groot int cleyn ghebracht door Mr. Muet.

35. Magnificent inventions : Jones's architectural orders as emblems of royal triumph / Vaughan Hart.