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Brotherton Collection7
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)7
Benois, Alexandre (1870-1960)5
Bilibin, Ivan ︠I︡Akovlevich (1876-1942)5
Dobuzhinskii, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957)5
Grabarʹ, Igorʹ Emmanuilovich (1871-1960)5
Lansere, E (1875-1946)5
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo (1895-1946)3
Alberti, Leon Battista1
Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472)1
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Vedute di Roma (v. 1)

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

[1748-1778]

Entirely engraved/etched. Imprint from title page: varies throughout. First issued ca. 1748, but issued with additional plates up to Piranesi's death in 1778, and subsequently; two plates added by...

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Vedute di Roma (v. 2)

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

[1748-1778]

Entirely engraved/etched. Imprint from title page: varies throughout. First issued ca. 1748, but issued with additional plates up to Piranesi's death in 1778, and subsequently; two plates added by...

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Vedute di Roma

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

[1748-1778]

Entirely engraved/etched. Imprint from title page: varies throughout. First issued ca. 1748, but issued with additional plates up to Piranesi's death in 1778, and subsequently; two plates added by...

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A parallel of the antient 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, Dorique, Ionique and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita the latter

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

1664

First edition. Bookseller's list, 1 page, on verso following p.159. Latin verses to Evelyn by Beale printed on A1r. Additional engraved title-page, with dedicatory portrait of Baron de Noyers, a...

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Examples of ornamental sculpture in architecture : drawn from the originals of bronze, marble, and terra cot[ta] in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy (oversize)

Vulliamy, Lewis (1791-1871); Moses, Henry (1782?-1870); Prowett, Septimus (179-?-1867); Jennings, Robert (fl. 1812-1831?); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Architectural Library; Priestley and Weale; Chatfield & Coleman

[1823-1827]

Engraved title page. Plates drawn by Lewis Vulliamy, architecture, and engraved by Henry Moses. Plates dated 1823 to 1827.

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India and China : a photographic study

Nawrath, Ernst Alfred (1890-)

[1939]

Descriptive letterpress in English and German at foot of plates.

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The thrones of earth and heaven

Beny, Roloff; Stark, Freya; Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963); Berenson, Bernard (1865-1959); Macaulay, Rose Dame; Spender, Stephen (1909-1995); Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c1958

Texts by Freya Stark, Jean Cocteau, Bernard Berenson, Rose Macaulay, Stephen Spender.

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The new vision : from material to architecture

Moholy-Nagy, László (1895-1946)

[1932]

"My lectures at the Bauhaus (Weimar and Dessau, 1923-1928) form the basis of the book." - foreword.

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