On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Subject Terms: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.

1. Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Architectura navalis, das ist, Von dem Schiffgebäw, auf dem Meer vnd Seekusten zugebrauchen : vnd nemblich, in was Form vnd Gestallt : fürs Erste, ein Galea ... zum Andern, ein Nave ... nach Verständlicher, gewisser Regul, vnd vnfehlbarer beständiger Ordnung sollen erbawen werden : allen, auf dem Meerpracticirten Liebhabern, wie auch den Bawmeistern, und Mahlern zu wolgefallen, vnd sonderbahren Nutzbarkeiten ... / durch Josephum Furttenbach.

Creator:: Furttenbach, Joseph, 1591–1667
Date:: anno MDCXXIX [1629]
Physical Description:: [22], 134 p., 20 leaves of double plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Creator:: Payne, John, 1710–1771
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: [6], 4 pages, [76] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented : being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort / correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects ; published according to act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented : being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort / correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects ; published according to act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 16 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.

Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.

Creator:: Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
Date:: MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:: [24], 795, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati: cōmentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti [da Cæsare Cæsariano] ...

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1521]
Physical Description:: IIII numb. leaves, 4 leaves, CLXXXIII numb. leaves, 1 leaf. ill. 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.

Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 64 pl. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Creator:: Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:: MDCCXV-MDCCLXXI [1715-1771]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The first[-fift] booke of architecture / made by Sebastian Serly ... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English.

Creator:: Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475–1554
Date:: 1611
Physical Description:: 5 v. in 1. ill., plans, diagrs. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The First [... fourth] booke of architecture.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: not before 1611
Physical Description:: 1 volume (272 leaves) : pen and ink on paper ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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, than has hitherto been published ... 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.

Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p., [56] leaves : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio : ne'quali, dopo un breve trattato de'cinque ordini, & di quelli avertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare : si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de'tempij : con privilegi / di Andrea Palladio.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1570
Physical Description:: 4 pts. in 1 v. (67, [1], 66 [i.e. 78], [2], 46, [2], 128, [6] p.) : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [2], 33, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

Creator:: Roman, Edward
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Excerpts from the Four books on architecture / Andrea Palladio ; translated by Robert Tavernor & Richard Schofield.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: [6], 14, [2] p. (last leaf folded) : ill. ; 44 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

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

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

18. The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Grotesque architecture, or, Rural amusement : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries ... : the whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs ... : to which is added a full explanation, in letter press, and true method of executing them / by William Wrighte.

Creator:: Wrighte, William
Date:: 1767
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: xiv p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks and other buildings : for decorating pleasure-ground, parks, forests, &c., &c. : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soan [sic].

Creator:: Soane, John, Sir, 1753–1837
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: [1], [2] p. : [38] (i.e. 37) leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Palladio Londinensis, or, The London art of building : in three parts. : I. Containing a demonstration of all geometrical problems ... : III. copiously treating of the several kinds of stair-cases : the whole illustrated with fifty-two copper plates : to which is annexed, the builder's dictionary ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 12, 132, [28] p., [52] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [70] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 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.

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

27. The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations and sections in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens ... &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement / by Thomas Collins Overton.

Creator:: Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: v, [30], 24 p., [152] leaves of plates (1 folded) : chiefly ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. An essay on architecture.

Creator:: Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 4–1778
Date:: 1776]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 21 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1773]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

33. 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.

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

34. 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.

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

35. 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.

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

36. 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.

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

37. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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.

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

39. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1486 or 7]
Physical Description:: [196] p. : ill. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. La nvova architettura civile, e militare / di Alessandro Capra, architetto, e cittadino cremonese ; divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligentemente corretta, ed accresciuta.

Creator:: Capra, Alessandro, 17th cent
Date:: MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. 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.

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

44. The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen ; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [3], vi-xvi, [376] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius : containing a system of the whole works of that author illustrated with divers copper plates, curiously engraved, with a table of explanation : to which is added in this edition the etymology and derivation of the terms used in architecture / first done in French by Monsr. Perrault, of the Academy of Paris, and now Englished, with additions.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1692
Physical Description:: [12], 158, [34] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plans ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats ... : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane.

Creator:: Soane, John, Sir, 1753–1837
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [1], [38] leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A new and accurate method of delineating all the parts of the different orders in architecture : by means of a well contriv'd, and most easily manag'd instrument; whereon the just proportions of the principal members, and of their several parts, are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the difficulty of the fractional parts that usually attend these operations / English'd from the original Italian of Ottavio Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie, Gent.

Creator:: Revesi Bruti, Ottavio
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: 52 p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Proofs for a selection of plates in Vitruvius Brittanicus, volume 5.

Date:: [1771?]
Physical Description:: 25 prints ; volume 52 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

Creator:: Aheron, John
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

Date:: MDCC LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [4], 345, [1], 100 p., CLXXXV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The city and countrey [sic] purchaser, and builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builder's guide ... / by T.N., philomath.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: [32], 288 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A proposition for a new order in architecture : with rules for drawing the several parts / by Henry Emlyn, of Windsor.

Creator:: Emlyn, Henry, 1728 or 1729–1815
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 11, [1] pages, X leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

Creator:: Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [viii], 54 p., illus., plans 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

Creator:: Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756, i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [18], 92, [2], 93-116, [2], 117-120, [2], 121-748, [4] pages, [115] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio : in ten books / translated from the Latin by Joseph Gwilt, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: MDCCCXXVI [1826]
Physical Description:: xl, 413 p., 10 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. 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.

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

60. L'academia Todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura, oder, Teutsche Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste : darinn enthalten ein gründlicher Unterricht von dieser dreyer Künste Eigenschaft, Lehr-Sätzen und Geheimnissen, von den Bau-Steinen und fünferley Bau-Arten ... neben aller egyptischen, griechischen, römischen, italiänischen, hoch-und nieder-teutschen, auch anderer alten und neuen Virtuosen Leben und fürehmsten Kunst-Werken beschrieben, Auch Mit 38 Platten von der Architectur, 68 Alt-Römischen Statuen, ganz und halsen Bildern, 74 Medaglinnen, 180 Contrafäten / durch die Hand der bästen heutigen Künstlere, in Kupfer gezieret ; durch Joachim von Sandrart auf Stockau Hoch-Fürstl. Pfalz-Neuburgischen Raht.

Creator:: Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606–1688
Date:: Anno Christi MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. 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 ...

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: [1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:: 102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: second half of the 15th century
Physical Description:: 1 volume ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. 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.

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

64. Leonis Baptiste Alberti De re aedificatoria incipit.

Creator:: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:: anno Salutis millesimo octavagesimo quinto, quarto chalendas Ianuarius [29 December 1485]
Physical Description:: [204] leaves ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. 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.

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

66. 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 : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [20] p., 83 plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building. Viz. solidity, conveniency, and ornament. By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly knight.

Creator:: Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:: 1662
Physical Description:: 6 p.., 44 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A treatise of architecture : with remarks and observations / by that excellent master thereof Sebastian LeClerc ... ; necessary for young people who would apply to that noble art ; engraven in CLXXXI copper plates by John Sturt ; translated by Mr. Chambers.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: [6], [181] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Every man a compleat builder, or, Easy rules and proportions for drawing and working the several parts of architecture ... / the whole nearly engraved on 51 copper plates ; compiled by the late Edward Oakley ... ; to which is annexed, a plan, elevation, and section of the carpenter's work, erected to support the center-arch of Black-Fryers-Bridge.

Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [52] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste : being above fifty intire [sic] new designs of plans, sections, elevations,&c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks,forests, woods, canals, &c. ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on fifty four copper-plates from the designs of Charles Over, architect.

Creator:: Over, Charles
Date:: 1758
Physical Description:: 8 p., [54] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Familiar architecture : consisting of original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats : with back-fronts, sections, &c. : together with banqueting-rooms, churches, and chimney-pieces : to which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks / by Thomas Rawlins, architect.

Creator:: Rawlins, Thomas
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], 30, [2] p., LX leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

Creator:: Skaife, Thomas
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. L'idea della architettvra universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi ... diuisa in X libri ...

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1615
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. ill., plans. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Neue und gründliche mathematische Friedens- und Kriegs-Schule : worinnen der Kern und die nothwendigsten Stücke der sechs nachfolgenden Wissenschafften, als Geometriae theoreticae, der Erdmess-Kunst. Architecturae civilis, der bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst. Architecturae militaris, der Fortification oder Kriegs-Bau-Kunst. Artis tormentariae, der Artillerie oder Büchsen-Meisteren. Pyrotechniae damnosae, des Ernst-Feuer-Wercks. Pyrotechniae jucundae, des Lust-Feuer-Wercks / aus vielen, sowol alten, als neuen berühmten und bewährten Autoren zu jedermanns nutzlichen Gebrauch, mit behörigen Figuren, fürtzlich, ordenlich und deutlich aufgesetzet und zusammen getragen durch Johann Sebastian Grubern, Majorn.

Creator:: Gruber, Johann Sebastian
Date:: An. 1697
Physical Description:: [14], 94, [4], 97-250, [2], 251-503, [3], 515-742 p., VI, 8, XVI, XXX, XIII, IV, XVI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. 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.

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

77. 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.

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

78. The city and country purchaser, and Builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builders guide ... / by Richard Neve.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [12], xx, [288] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. 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.

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

80. I dieci libri d'architettura / di Gio: Antonio Rusconi ; secondo i precetti di Vitruuio ; Nouamente ristampati, & accresciuti della prattica degl'horologi solari.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [12], 148 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. 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.

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

82. 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.

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

83. Vignola revived : wherein is shown the true and most elegant proportions of the five orders as laid down by that great master : illustrated by two hundred and twenty-seven designs of palaces and other magnificent buildings : executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere : neatly engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates : adapted not only to the general use of architecture, but herein particular subjects are treated with the greatest accuracy, viz. : the five orders; columns, symbolical, &c. &c. doors, windows, niches, &c. cornishes, French and Italian ; ballustrades, mosaic work, mouldings, &c., sections of rooms, with designs for furniture; ornamental iron-work for various purposes; temples, grotto's, and summer retreats, for parks, gardens, &c. plan, elevations, and sections of the castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a church, pallaces [sic], &c. : with many other particulars relative to the art of building.

Creator:: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. 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. ; to which are added designes of floors lately made at Somerset-House, and the framing of houses after the best manner of English building ...

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: [10], 199, [1], 101-115, [2], 210-222, [3], 228, [4] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The qualifications and duty of a surveyor explained in a letter to the right honourable the Earl of ****** : in which the essential accomplishements are particularly descrived and considered : necessary to be perused by all persons concerned in building.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 28 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Der furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen mathematischen vnd mechanischen Künst, eygentlicher Bericht, vnd vast klare, verstendliche Vnterrichtung : zu rechtem Verstandt der Lehr Vitruuij, in drey furneme Bücher abgetheilet ... : allen künstlichen Handtwerckern, Werckmeistern, Steinmetzen ... zu sonderlichem Nutz und vilfeltigem Vortheil in Truck verordnet / durch Gualtherum H. Riuium Medi. & Math. ...

Creator:: Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548
Date:: Anno 1547
Physical Description:: [6], XLII, LII, XLVII, [1], LII, XLVII, [5], XLVII, [1], IX, [4], XIX, XII leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The magazine of architecture, perspective, & sculpture : in five parts : Part the first. Geometrical, practical, & usefull [sic] problems ; for ye describing of circles, ovals, arches, groyns (Regular or rampant) & polygons, ye mouldings made use of in architecture; the handrail to stair-cases; ye wreath'd columns; ionic (capital antient & modern) volutes; & to flute columns and pilasters : Part the second. Plain & easy directions, for the construction of ye five orders of architecture , with their imposts & arches, plans, elevations & profiles, (accurately describ'd by feet, inches & parts; likewise by the customary measure of modules & minutes) frontispieces & windows; ornaments for mouldings, capitals & freezes; fretts & flowers; enrich'd pedestals for statues; compartiments [sic] for domes, soffites of arches & pavements; of the proportion and cieling [sic] of rooms; and designs of obelisks : Part the third. On the disposition & regularity of stair-cases; with several necessary improvements, wherein the symetry [sic] requir'd is preserv'd in ye steps & halfpaces, &c. also in ye rangeing [sic] ballisters & ornaments : Part the fourth. A most easy & expeditious method, to delineate in perspective, all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from ye confusion of occult lines : Part the fifth. The parts of human-body describ'd; with ye nature of motion reduc'd to geometrical rules; to which is added, a collection of ye most beautiful antique statues, with their parts describ'd, as measur'd from the originals / engraven on 96 copper plates by Benjn. Cole ; to which is annexed, an alphabetical explanation of ye terms made use of in architecture ; collected from the most approv'd authors, antient & modern, particularly, Palladio, Scamozzi & Vignola, & made a work of general use for gentlemen, architects, sculptors, painters, workmen, & all persons concern'd in building, by Edward Oakley, Architect . M. M.

Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: MDCCXXX [1730]
Physical Description:: [12], 119, [1] p., XCIII leaves of plates : ill., coat of arms, diagrams, plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy... : by nearly 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient andmodern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... : engraved on 184 copper plates: wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ... / by Batty Langley ...

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: xxiv p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

Creator:: Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711–1769
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: xvi, [2], 272, [8] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. 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.

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

91. 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. ...

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

92. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: [12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Useful architecture : being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter : in twenty-five new designs : with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns, with their respective offices, &c. ... : together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only ... : the four designs added, are for bridges ...

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [4], 78 [i.e. 76] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus ... ; and engraved by B. Cole.

Creator:: Hoppus, E. (Edward), d. 1739
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 101 p., lxxxiv leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. 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.

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

96. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

Creator:: Robinson, William, approximately 1744–
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [32] leaves, 33-47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The mirror of architecture, or, The ground-rules of the art of building / exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi master-builder of Venice ; reviewed and inlarged [sic] with the addition of a diagonal scale being very useful for dividing the author his given parts into minutes ... ; by Joachim Schuym of Amsterdam ; translated out of Dutch by W.F. ; hereunto is added The description and use of an ordinary joynt-rule fitted with lines for the ready finding the lengths and angles of rafters, ... by John Browne.

Creator:: Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552–1616
Date:: 1676
Physical Description:: [10], 23, 29, 22 p., [50] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. 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 ...

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

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

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

100. 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.

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

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2. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

6. Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.

7. De architectura libri dece traducti de latino in vulgare, affigurati: cōmentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti [da Cæsare Cæsariano] ...

8. Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.

10. The first[-fift] booke of architecture / made by Sebastian Serly ... Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English.

11. The First [... fourth] booke of architecture.

14. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

15. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

16. Excerpts from the Four books on architecture / Andrea Palladio ; translated by Robert Tavernor & Richard Schofield.

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

21. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

22. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks and other buildings : for decorating pleasure-ground, parks, forests, &c., &c. : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soan [sic].

23. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

25. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

26. 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.

28. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

29. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

30. An essay on architecture.

31. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

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

39. L. Victruuii Pollionis ad Cesarem Augustum De architectura liber primus.

40. La nvova architettura civile, e militare / di Alessandro Capra, architetto, e cittadino cremonese ; divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligentemente corretta, ed accresciuta.

41. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

44. The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen ; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve.

46. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

47. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats ... : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane.

49. Proofs for a selection of plates in Vitruvius Brittanicus, volume 5.

50. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

52. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

53. The city and countrey [sic] purchaser, and builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builder's guide ... / by T.N., philomath.

54. A proposition for a new order in architecture : with rules for drawing the several parts / by Henry Emlyn, of Windsor.

55. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

57. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

58. The architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio : in ten books / translated from the Latin by Joseph Gwilt, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

61. 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 ...

62. Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura.

64. Leonis Baptiste Alberti De re aedificatoria incipit.

66. 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 : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

67. A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building. Viz. solidity, conveniency, and ornament. By Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly knight.

68. A treatise of architecture : with remarks and observations / by that excellent master thereof Sebastian LeClerc ... ; necessary for young people who would apply to that noble art ; engraven in CLXXXI copper plates by John Sturt ; translated by Mr. Chambers.

72. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

73. L'idea della architettvra universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi ... diuisa in X libri ...

75. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

76. 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.

78. The city and country purchaser, and Builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builders guide ... / by Richard Neve.

80. I dieci libri d'architettura / di Gio: Antonio Rusconi ; secondo i precetti di Vitruuio ; Nouamente ristampati, & accresciuti della prattica degl'horologi solari.

85. The qualifications and duty of a surveyor explained in a letter to the right honourable the Earl of ****** : in which the essential accomplishements are particularly descrived and considered : necessary to be perused by all persons concerned in building.

89. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

91. 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. ...

94. The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus ... ; and engraved by B. Cole.

96. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

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

100. 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.