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An essay on the study and practice of architecture. : Explaining 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

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1756.
Call number: 472981
Creator: Laugier, Marc-Antoine (1711-1769)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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An essay on the study and practice of architecture. : Explaining 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

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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