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Creator Langley, Batty, 1696–1751

1. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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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