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architecture113
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)55
Felibien, Andre Sieur Des Avaux Et De Javercy (1619-1695)7
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)7
Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682)6
Drouhin, Marie-FrançOis5
Langley, Batty (1696-1751)5
Millin, A L (1759-1818)5
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)5
Academie Royale De Peinture Et De Sculpture (France)4
Newton, James (1760-1829)4

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Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne : avec un recueil des dix principaux autheurs qui ont écrit des cinq ordres... [etc.]

Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray (1606-1676)

1650

Added t.p.: Parallele de l'architecture antique avec la moderne.

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A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter

Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray (1606-1676); Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472); Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639)

1723

Title in red and black; title-vignette; head-and tail-pieces; initials. Engraved frontispiece reads: A parallel of architecture both ancient & moderne, by Roland Freart, sr de Chambray.

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The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam... = Les ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam ... [etc.]

Adam, Robert (1728-1792); Adam, James (1732-1794); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Villiers, Victor Albert George Child (1845-1915)

1778-79

English and French. Leeds University Library copy at folio Architecture B-0.1 ADA is incomplete, only 2 parts. Contents are: Number I: Containing part of the designs of Sion House, a magnificent sea...

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Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent

Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Kent, William (1685-1748); Vardy, John (1718-1765); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Shafto, Robert; Adair, William; Johnson, Francis

1744

Title within ornamental border. Engraved throughout by John Vardy. Edited by William Kent.

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Ancient architecture : restored, and improved, by a great variety of grand and usefull designs, entirely new in the Gothick mode for the ornamenting of buildings and gardens exceeding every thing thats extant, exquisitely engraved on LXIV large quarto copper-plates and printed on superfine royal paper

Langley, Batty (1696-1751); Langley, T (1702-1751)

[1741]

"N.B. The editor's being at a great expence to compleat the first part... to enable the compleating of the last part, encouragers are humbly desired to pay ... on receiving the first part, and ... on ...

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Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des terms propres à chacun de ces arts

Félibien, André sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695)

1690

Signed prelim. p. [8], Felibien. Dictionary: p. [465]-797. Marginal notes.

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Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes (v.1)

Félibien, André sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695)

1685 [i.e. 1686]-

First published Paris, 1666-88.

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Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes : avec la vie des architectes (v.6)

Félibien, André sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695); Félibien des Avaux, J.-F (1658?-1733); Perrot, Catherine (fl. 17th century)

1725

Parts of v. 5 and 6 by J.-F. Félibien; "Traité de la miniature" in v. 6 by Catherine Perrot with separate title page and pagination. First published Paris, 1666-88.

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Original designs in architecture (oversize)

Thomas, William (1800); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1783

With a 2-page list of subscribers. Plates by J. Roberts, E. Malpas, and T. Miller, after the author. Plates dated 1781

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