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1. Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent.

Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent.
Creator:
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652
Date:
1744
Physical Description:
3 p., 53 plates. 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura egizia, etrusca, e greca : con, Un ragionamento apologetico in difesa dell'architettura egizia, e toscana / opera del cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi = Divers manners of ornamenting chimneys and all other parts of houses taken from the Egyptian, Tuscan and Grecian architecture : with An apologetical essay in defence of the Egyptian and Tuscan architecture / by John Baptist Piranesi, Knight = Différentes manières d'orner les cheminées et toute autre partie des édifices tirées de l'architecture égyptienne, étrusque, et grèque : avec, Un discours apologetique en faveur de l'architecture égyptienne, et toscane / par le chevalier Jean Baptiste Piranesi.

Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura egizia, etrusca, e greca : con, Un ragionamento apologetico in difesa dell'architettura egizia, e toscana / opera del cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi = Divers manners of ornamenting chimneys and all other parts of houses taken from the Egyptian, Tuscan and Grecian architecture : with An apologetical essay in defence of the Egyptian and Tuscan architecture / by John Baptist Piranesi, Knight = Différentes manières d'orner les cheminées et toute autre partie des édifices tirées de l'architecture égyptienne, étrusque, et grèque : avec, Un discours apologetique en faveur de l'architecture égyptienne, et toscane / par le chevalier Jean Baptiste Piranesi.
Creator:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[4], 30, [2], 31-35, [3] pages, [4], 66 leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

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 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.
Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
iv, 24 pages, clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

4. Etchings, representing the best examples of ancient ornamental architecture; drawn from the originals in Rome, and other parts of Italy, during the years 1794, 1795, and 1796. By Charles Heathcote Tatham ...

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Creator:
Tatham, Charles Heathcote, 1772-1842
Date:
1799 [i. e. 1800]
Physical Description:
12 p. plates. 49 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms, from a common room to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margents and mouldings for the panelling: all large enough for practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions ... By Abraham Swan, architect ...

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Creator:
Swan, Abraham
Date:
[ca. 1768]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. 125 plates. 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. Safety from fire in chimnies : besides contributing to an act of great humanity.

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Creator:
Price, William
Date:
[ca. 1790]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen; also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected. The whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Inn. Halfpenny ...

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
4 pt. in 1 v. 64 plates (part fold.) 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Original designs in architecture, by William Thomas ... consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio; which contain plans, elevations, sections, ceilings and chimney pieces, for villas and town houses; designs for temples, grottos, sepulchres, bridges, &c. in the most approved taste. To which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs.

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Creator:
Thomas, William, -1800
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
12 p. XXVII plates. 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. 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
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
1 volume (XCII pages) : illustrations ; 55 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

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Date:
1766-1769
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

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. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by old Rooker, old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands / by Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. ...

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
[4], vi, [1], 8-137, [1] pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts