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Carpentry made easy, or, the science and art of framing, on a new and improved system. With specific instructions for building balloon frames, barn frames, mill frames, warehouses, church spires, etc. Comprising also a system of bridge building, with bills, estimates of cost, and valuable tables. Illustrated by thirty-eight plates and near two hundred figures

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1857]
Call number: 714225
Creator: Bell, William E(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 26 cm
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Carpentry made easy; or, The science and art of framing, on a new and improved system. : With specific instructions for building balloon frames, barn frames, mill frames, warehouses, church spires, etc. Comprising also a system of bridge building; with bills, estimates of cost, and valuable tables. Illustrated by thirty-eight plates and near two hundred figures
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Woodward's national architect ... : 1000 original designs, plans and details, to working scale, for the practical construction of dwelling houses for the country, suburb and village. With full and complete sets of specifications and an estimate of the cost of each design
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The modern architect, or, Every carpenter his own master : Embracing plans, elevations, specifications, framing, etc., for private houses, classic dwellings, churches, &c. To which is added the new system of stair building
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Practical lessons in architectural drawing or : how to make the working drawings and write specifications for buildings. Illustrated by 33 full-page plates (one in colors,) and 33 woodcuts, showing methods of construction and representation. The work embraces: scale drawings of plans, elevations, sections and details of frame, brick and stone buildings, with full descriptions and a specification showing the various forms of writing the same for different kinds of buildings
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Home building. : A reliable book of facts, relative to building, living, materials, costs, at about 400 places from New York to San Francisco. Containing 42 plates and 45 original designs of buildings, with short descriptive specifications. Also with extended and elaborated specifications of materials and labor, merchandise, and where it may be produced. Tables of costs of materials at about 400 places from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Descriptions of statistics for 1876, of over 250 cities, towns and hamlets. How to reach them, their hotels, populations, healthfulness, industries, institutions, churches, newspapers, lots, farms near and values, advantages and prospects. Places of resort for health noted. Many illustrations and practical, useful suggestions
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631422
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Elementary principles of carpentry : a treatise on the pressure and equilibrium of timber framing : the resistance of timber : and the construction of floors, roofs, centres, bridges, &c. with practical rules and examples : to which is added an essay on the nature and properties of timber, including the methods of seasoning, and the causes and prevention of decay, with descriptions of the kinds of wood used in building : also numerous tables of the scantlings of timber for different purposes, the specific gravities of materials, &c
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