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1. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:: [16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The builder's dictionary, or, Gentleman and architect's companion : explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof ... : also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences : together with the quantities proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ... / fully digested by the most approved writers on the subjects.

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Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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.

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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

4. Edward Ryland : copper plate printer in the Old Bailey near Ludgate Hill, London.

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Creator:: Ryland, Edwd. (Edward), active approximately 1762-1775
Date:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 27 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The perspective of architecture : in two parts : a work entirely new, deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor : and performed by two rules only of universal application : part the first, contains the description and use of a new instrument called the architectonic sector : part the second, a new method of drawing the five orders, elegant structures, &c. in perspective / begun by command of His Present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, by Joshua Kirby, designer in perspective to His Majesty.

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Creator:: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: [6], 82, [2], ii, 60, [2] pages, [1], XXV, LXXII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Gale's cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations : containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural, and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility ... : to which are added a great number of originals, likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics.

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Creator:: Gale, John, active 18th century-19th century
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xiv, 336 pages, VI folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A collection of voyages : in four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... III. A voyage round the world ... By W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-seas. VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Robert's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. Illustrated with maps and draughts: also several birds, fishes and plants ...

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Creator:: Dampier, William, 1652-1715
Date:: MDCCXXIX [1729]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, maps, tables ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The builder's price-book : containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London : to the several artificers concerned in building : including the journeymen's prices / by an experienced surveyor.

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Creator:: Experienced surveyor
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: viii, 176, [16] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts