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A short treatise of artificial stone : as 'tis now made, and converted into all manner of curious embellishments, and proper ornaments, of architecture : containing the most beautiful, the strongest, and the cheapest method, of adorning buildings of all sorts : being an excellent and most useful art, well known to the ancients, but lost to the world for many ages; now retriev'd

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1730.
Call number: 493478
Creator: Holt, Richard (active 1730)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Charles B. Wood III, Inc., August 1992.
Dimensions: 20 cm (8vo)
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