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The rudiments of architecture : being a treatise on practical geometry, on Grecian and Roman mouldings; shewing the best method of drawing their curves, with remarks on the effect of both. Also, on the origin of building, on the five orders of architecture, ... Correctly engraved on thirty-four copperplates / By Asher Benjamin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Orders.
- Architecture.
- Geometry.
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages, 32 leaves of plates, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : plans ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- Second edition, enlarged, with a plan and elevations of a church.
- Manufacture:
- [printed by Munroe & Francis]
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : published by R. P. & C. Williams, 1820.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-M⁴.
- Plates engraved by H.W. Snyder.
- Cited in:
- Shoemaker, 389.
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 144.
- OCLC:
- 249129458
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