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101. The builder's sketch book, or, The youth's pocket companion : containing a great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [42], 52 p., 48 plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Nouuelles inuentions pour bien bastir et à petits fraiz / trouuees n'agueres par Philibert de L'Orme Lyonnois, Architecte, Conseiller & Aumonier ordinaire du feu Roy Henry, & Abbé de S. Eloy les Noyon.

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Creator:: L'Orme, Philibert de, 1515?-1570
Date:: 1576
Physical Description:: [12], 94, [6] p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper- plates. By Abraham Swan, carpenter.

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p. LX plates. 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. 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.

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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

105. De architectura Iacobi Androuetii du Cerceau, opus : quo descriptae sunt aedificiorum quinquaginta planè dissimilium ichnographiae, in omnium non modò potentiorum, sed etiam mediocrium & tenuiorum gratia[m], quos aedificandi studium oblectat: adiunctâ vsus & commoditatis in habitationibus singulis expositione, vnà cum integra cuisque aedificij dimensione. Hûc accedit breuis explicatio de structurarum, quibus aedifica constant, dimensione per orgyiam, que Gallica est architectorum mensura, sex longa pedes: quâ certè methodo nemo non aedificia quaevis metiri, & futuri in aedificando sumptus rationem secum inire poterit ...

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Creator:: Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549–1584
Date:: 1559
Physical Description:: [32] pages, [69] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. [Plans, elevations, and section for Carshalton House]

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Creator:: Leoni, Giacomo, approximately 1686–1746
Date:: [1728?]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : etching ; plate marks 35 x 76 cm, or smaller, on sheets 66 x 97 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. Convenient and ornamental architecture : consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections : beginning with the farm house and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : ... / by John Crunden ; the whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates by Isaac Taylor.

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Creator:: Crunden, John, ca. 1745–1835
Date:: 1767,
Physical Description:: viii, iv, 26 p. : 70 (i.e. 56) plates ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. 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. ...

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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

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

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

110. Vitruvius, On architecture, edited from the Harleian manuscript 2767 and translated into English by Frank Granger ...

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Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1955-56
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., plates, plans, diagrs. 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

111. The builder's pocket-treasure = or, Palladio delineated and explained ... the whole neatly and correctly engraved on forty-four copper plates, with printed explanations to face each plate / by William Pain ; engraved by Isaac Taylor.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: iv, 69 p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

112. The architecture of Sir Roger Pratt, Charles II's commissioner for the rebuilding of London after the great fire: now printed for the first time from his note-books. Edited by R. T. Gunther.

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Creator:: Pratt, Roger, Sir, 1620–1684
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: xi, 312 p. illus. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

113. The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant ... London, The Author, 1762.

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant ... London, The Author, 1762.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1972]
Physical Description:: 1 v. (various pagings) illus. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

114. Architectural drawings in the library of Elton Hall, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Sir Edward Lovett Pearce. Edited by Howard Colvin and Maurice Craig.

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Creator:: Vanbrugh, John, 1664–1726
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: lvi, 40 p. 82 plates (incl. 2 ports.) 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

115. Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects. Nor for the first time translated into English by Louisa S. Macklehose. Edited, with introd. & notes, by G. Baldwin Brown.

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Creator:: Vasari, Giorgio, 1511–1574
Date:: [1960]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 328 p. illus., ports, map. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

116. The British architect.

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: viii, viii, 16., 60 plates. 42 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library