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1. 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
Credit Line:: 22913983310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. 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.

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Creator:: Neve, Richard. no_linkage
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [3], vi-xvi, [376] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22850188450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. 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
Credit Line:: 22611419610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection