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The practical house carpenter : being a complete development of the Grecian orders of architecture ... containing one example of the Tuscan order, three examples of the Doric order, three examples of the Ionic order, one example of the Corinthian order, and one example of the composite order ... to which are added a series of designs for porticos, frontispieces, doors ... etc. engraved on sixty-four large quarto copper plates

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1830.
Call number: 217578
Creator: Benjamin, Asher (1773-1845)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 28 x 24 cm
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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
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