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Ancient masonry : both in the theory and practice, demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations ... Together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches ... ornaments, &c. The whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master, illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on ... copper plates. With a dictionarial index, explaining the terms of art used herein / by B. Langley.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Arithmetic.
- Geometry.
- Physical Description:
- 434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for and sold by the author, 1736.
- Contents:
- [v. 1.] Text.
- [v. 2] Plates.
- Local Notes:
- Pages 25-28 omitted in numbering.
- OCLC:
- 21160410
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