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A new treatise of architecture, according to Vitruvius. : Wherein is discoursed of the five orders of columns, viz. The Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite. Divided into seven chapters. VVhich declare their different proportions, measures, and proper names, according to the practice of the antient architects, both Greeks and Romans; as also of all their parts general and particular: necessary in the building of temples, churches, palaces, castles, fortresses, and all other buildings, with their dependants: as gates, ... plat-forms, and other ornaments; serving as well for the beautifying of buildings in cities, as for necessary fortifications of them. Designed by Julian Mauclerc, Lord of Ligneron Mauclerc, Brossandiere and Remanguis. ... The whole represented in fifty large prints, ... A work necessary for ... all that are concerned in the famous art of building. Set forth in English by Robert Pricke. Licensed, May 27. 1669. Roger L'Estrange