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1. The architects store-house : being a collection of several designes of frontispieces, doors and vvindow-cases, cieling-pieces, alcoves, chimney-pieces and fountains, with divers other sorts useful in eminent buildings. Likewise a representation of the five columns of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite. Useful for painters,, carvers, masons, carpenters, bricklayers, joyners, cabinet-makers, plaisterers, &c. Containing fifty cooper-plate prints / collected and set forth by Robert Pricke.

The architects store-house : being a collection of several designes of frontispieces, doors and vvindow-cases, cieling-pieces, alcoves, chimney-pieces and fountains, with divers other sorts useful in eminent buildings. Likewise a representation of the five columns of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite. Useful for painters,, carvers, masons, carpenters, bricklayers, joyners, cabinet-makers, plaisterers, &c. Containing fifty cooper-plate prints / collected and set forth by Robert Pricke.
Creator:
Pricke, Robert
Date:
1674
Physical Description:
[2] p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Vignola, or the compleat architect : shewing in a plain and easie way the rules of the five orders in architecture : viz. Tuscan, Doric, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : whereby any that can but read and understand English, may readily learn the proportions that all members in a building have one unto another : set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola / translated into English by Joseph Moxon.

Vignola, or the compleat architect : shewing in a plain and easie way the rules of the five orders in architecture : viz. Tuscan, Doric, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : whereby any that can but read and understand English, may readily learn the proportions that all members in a building have one unto another : set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola / translated into English by Joseph Moxon.
Creator:
Vignola, 1507–1573
Date:
1655
Physical Description:
[9], 16-80 p., 23 leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.

A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another : the three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise, and the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain tearms particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues ; by John Evelyn, Esq. fellow of the Royal Society.
Creator:
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606–1676
Date:
MDCLXIV [1664]
Physical Description:
[24], 159, [1] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

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Creator:
Darly, Matthias
Date:
January 12, 1773
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. XXX. pieces d'architecture : tirees du tres exellent auteur Vincent Scamozze : et autres : tres necessaire a ceux qui sont Proffession de cet Art = XXX. pieces of architecture : taken out of the famous Author Vincent Scamozze : and others : Very necessary for all those that are affected to the said Art.

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Creator:
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:
1660.]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:
[12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Li cinque libri di architettura / di Gio. Battista Montani milanese ...

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Creator:
Montano, Giovanni Battista, 1545–1621
Date:
1684
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Traité des manieres de dessiner les ordres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties : auec plusieurs belles particularitez qui nont point parû jusques a present, touchat. les bastimts. de marque comme, la naturelle entresuitte des gros et menüs membres de l'eurs degrez ou escaliers : puis, le moyen darrester par dessein et modelle en petit, les parties d'vn edifice, en sorte q'uestant executé en grand, il fasse l'effet que l'on senst proposé, et enfin, la pratique de trouuer la place geometrale des jours ombres et ombrages, sur les corps geometraux / par A. Bosse.

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Creator:
Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:
MVICLXIIII [1664, i.e. 1665]
Physical Description:
[3], XLIV leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

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Creator:
Guarini, Guarino, 1624–1683
Date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:
[8], 307, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Des ordres de colõnes en l'architecture, et plusieurs aũes dependances dicelle / par A. Bosse.

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Creator:
Bosse, Abraham, 1602–1676
Date:
1664
Physical Description:
[1], A-V leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. The Grecian orders of architectvre : delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens : also the parallels of the orders of Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola : to which are added remarks concerning pvblick abd private edifices, with designs.

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Creator:
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[20], 78 pages, 18, 10 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A nevv book of architecture : wherein is represented fourty figures of gates and arches triumphant, composed of different inventions according to the five orders of columnes, viz. the Tuscane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite / by Alexander Francine ... ; with a description of each figure ; set forth by Robert Pricke, for the use and benefit of all ingenious workmen that are concerned in eminent building.

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Creator:
Francine, Alexandre, -1648
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
[4] pages, XXXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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

16. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:
[8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:
[6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A brief and plain description of the five orders of columns of architecture : viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Roman and Corinthian, with their architraves, friezes and cornishes / by Simon Bosboon, the city-mason of Amsterdam. According to that most eminent and excellent architect Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. And reduced into minutes, with a diagonal sccale, very useful and necessary for all mason, bricklayers, carpenters, joyners, painters, carvers, plaisterers, turner, etc. Very plan and easie for all lovers and young practitioners, of this art of architecture.

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Creator:
Bosboom, Simon, 1614–1670
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[8] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts