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Date 1733

Subject Terms Building -- Early works to 1800.

1. 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.

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

2. 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.

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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