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1. A descriptive and historical account of various palaces and public buildings, English and foreign : with biographical notices of their founders or builders, and other eminent persons / by James Norris Brewer.

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Creator:
Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
viii, 323 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Poétique des arts, ou Cours de peinture et de littérature comparées. Par J.-F. Sobry.

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Creator:
Sobry, Jean François, 1743–1820
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
490 p., 1 leaf. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. History of art by its monuments, from its decline in the fourth century to its restoration in the sixteenth; translated from the French of Seroux d'Agincourt ...

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Creator:
Seroux d'Agincourt, Jean Baptists Louis Georges, 1730–1814
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
3 v. in 1. 328 plates (incl. plans) 53 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A concise history and analysis of all the principal styles of architecture; namely, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, that of the dark ages, of the Arabians and of the Normans; including a detailed description of the origin, progress and decline of the Gothic. To which is added, a sketch of the architecture of England, down to the present time. By an amateur.

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Creator:
Boid, Edward
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
xx, [3]-212 p. 8 plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An historical essay on architecture / by the late Thomas Hope ; illustrated from drawings made by him in Italy and Germany ...

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Creator:
Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An analytical index.

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Creator:
Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
89 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The civil architecture of Vitruvius : comprising those books of the author which relate to the public and private edifices of the ancients / translated by William Wilkins, M.A. F.A.S., late fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; author of the 'Antiquities of Magna Graecia" ; illustrated by numerous engravings ; with an introduction, containing an historical view of the rise and progress of architecture amongst the Greeks.

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Creator:
Vitruvius Pollio
Date:
1812 [i.e. 1812-1817]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The palace of architecture : a romance of art and history / by George Wightwick, Architect.

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Creator:
Wightwick, George, 1802–1872
Date:
MDCCCXL [1840]
Physical Description:
xx, 219 p., [38] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A synopsis of the origin and progress of architecture : to which is added a dictionary of general terms / by William J. Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, William J., active 1831–1854
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
viii, 133 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The origin of building: or, The plagiarism of the heathens detected. In five books. By John Wood, architect.

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Creator:
Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
5 p. ., [3]-235 p. 36 [i. e. 25] plates (part fold.) 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A second letter to John Soane, Esq. professor of archtecture to the Royal Academy of Arts, F.R.S. F. S. A. etc. etc. etc. on the subject of new churches / by an architect.

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Creator:
Architect
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[4], 64 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The story of architecture.

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Creator:
Waterhouse, P. Leslie
Date:
[1950]
Physical Description:
xii, 228 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

13. Sir Banister Fletcher's A history of architecture.

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Creator:
Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866–1953
Date:
1975
Physical Description:
xvii, 1390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

14. A history of architecture on the comparative method.

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Creator:
Fletcher, Banister, 1833–1899
Date:
[1963]
Physical Description:
xxiv, 1366 p. illus., maps, plans. 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

15. Cities & people : a social and architectural history / Mark Girouard.

Cities & people : a social and architectural history / Mark Girouard.
Creator:
Girouard, Mark, 1931–
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
vii, 397 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

16. Apollo, a general history of the plastic arts, by S. Reinach. From the French by Florence Simmonds.

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Creator:
Reinach, Salomon, 1858–1932
Date:
1906
Physical Description:
xvi, 351 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

17. A visit to the Architectural Museum : written for students / by Jno. P. Seddon ; with sketches from the Museum by T. Raffles Davison.

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Creator:
Seddon, John Pollard, 1827–1906
Date:
1884
Physical Description:
23 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

18. Painting the sky black : Louis Kahn and the architectonization of nature / Florian Sauter ; managing editor Steve Pantazis ; language editor Marion Endt-Jones.

Painting the sky black : Louis Kahn and the architectonization of nature / Florian Sauter ; managing editor Steve Pantazis ; language editor Marion Endt-Jones.
Creator:
Sauter, Florian, 1978–
Date:
[2018]
Physical Description:
499 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Reference Library