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1. The five orders : geometrical and in perspective : with their corresponding antae : intended to facilitate the architect, the draughtsman, and also the builder, in designing and drawing, wherein the above orders are made use of / elucidated in a manner never hitherto shown by M.A. Nicholson ...

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Creator:
Nicholson, Michael Angelo, -1842
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
[4] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The practical architect's ready assistant, or, Builder's complete companion : exhibiting in a comprehensive form the standard prices, and the various trades connected with it ... / by William Stitt.

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Creator:
Stitt, William
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[iv], [iv], [iv], [1], 10-358 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

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Creator:
Roman, Edward
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The civil architecture of Vitruvius : comprising those books of the author which relate to the public and private edifices of the ancients / translated by William Wilkins, M.A. F.A.S., late fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; author of the 'Antiquities of Magna Graecia" ; illustrated by numerous engravings ; with an introduction, containing an historical view of the rise and progress of architecture amongst the Greeks.

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Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
1812 [i.e. 1812-1817]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Traité d'architecture : contenant les principes de l'art, cassines, mausolées, portes de Palladio, arcs de triomphe en cinquante-trois planches / par Chambers architecte du roi d'Angleterre, des Académies de Paris, Florence, Stockholm, &c. ; traduit de l'Anglais après la seconde édition par LeRouge, Ingénieur-Géogaphe du Roi.

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
[not before 1815?]
Physical Description:
[1], 52 [i.e. 53] leaves : all illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An essay on the Doric order of architecture : containing a historical view of its rise and progress among the ancients, with a critical investigation of its principles of composition and adaptation to modern use : illustrated by figures of the principal antique examples, drawn to one scale, from the best authorities / by Edmund Aiken ...

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Creator:
Aiken, Edmund, 1780–1820
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
23, [1] p., 7 leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture, viz., Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and composite ... To which is annex'd, a discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture. Engraven on six folio plates of the several orders, adorn'd with twenty-four borders, as many initial letters, and a like number of tail-pieces, by John Sturt. Written in French by Claude Perrault ... Made English by John James.

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Creator:
Perrault, Claude, 1613–1688
Date:
1708
Physical Description:
7 p. l., xxi, [1], 131 p. illus., VI (i. e. 7) pl. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

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Creator:
Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 28 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A practical explanation of the elements of architecture : for the use of drawing academies and mechanics' institutions : with seven engravings / by Geo. Smith, architect ...

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Creator:
Smith, George, architect
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
iv, 36 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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 ... : with a dictionary of terms ...

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Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[2], viii, 84 p., 10 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The student's instructor in drawing and working the five orders of architecture : fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings ... : with finished examples ... engraved on forty-one plates / by Peter Nicholson.

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Creator:
Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
viii, 39 p., [40] leaves of plates (some folded), 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A course of the five orders of civil architecture : with a plan, and some geometrical elevations of town gates of fortified places : for the use of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich / by I. Landmann, Professor of Fortification and Artillery ; the five orders are taken from Mr. Chambers's elegant treatise on civil architecture.

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Creator:
Landmann, Isaac, 1741–1826
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[2], 25, [1] pages, XIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

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Creator:
Robinson, William, approximately 1744–
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
[32] leaves, 33-47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided / by James Gibbs.

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Creator:
Gibbs, James, 1682–1754
Date:
MDCCXXXII [1732]
Physical Description:
[8], 42 pages, LXIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Traité d'architecture civile : tiré de Vignole, Daviler, & autres / Stephanus Riou, Londinensis Bonarum Artium ac Litterarum Studiosus in Universit. Genevens ... delint. & scripsit A.H.S. 1743.

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Creator:
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
1 volume (XCII pages) : illustrations ; 55 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. 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 ... designs ... engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates ... With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... To which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ... By B.L.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
1 p.., 22 p. 200 plates (incl. diagrs.) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias
Date:
[1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:
102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The young builder's rudiments, or, The principles of geometry, mechanicks, mensuration and perspective, geometrically demonstrated : together with the five orders of columns in architecture, according to the proportions of the celebrated Palladio : calculated for the use of workmen, gentlemen and others, who delight in designing, drawing, painting, engraving, and gardening, &c. / by B. Langley ; adorn'd with about thirty large copper plates, curiously engrav'd by J. Vandergucht and B. Cole.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1730
Physical Description:
[8], 130, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm. (4o.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A new parallel of the orders of architecture : according to the Greeks and Romans, and modern architects / with the original plates, drawn and engraved by Charles Normand, architect, and member of the French Academy at Rome ; with the text translated, and two additional plates, by Augustus Pugin, architect.

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Creator:
Normand, Charles Pierre Joseph, 1765–1840
Date:
MDCCCXXIX [1829]
Physical Description:
viii, 50 pages, [2], LXIV plates : illustrations ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Capital City : a walk through London's architectural orders / Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum.

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Date:
[2009]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Reference Library