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Total number of records: 14

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Books and printed items10
Archives4

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture4
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2
Leeds Russian Archive1

Top 10: Subject

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architecture14
buildings4
dwellings4
agriculture2
archive administration2
culture2
museums2
occupations2
prices2
temples1

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Delos Island (Greece)3
Faroe Islands2
Iceland2
Greenland1
Solovetski Islands (Russia)1

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Bruun, Daniel (1856-1931)4
Chapman, John4
Ecole Francaise D'Athenes3
Homolle, Theophile (1848-1925)3
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
Carter, John (1748-1817)2
Cook, Andrew George2
Harris, John (1931-)2
Holleaux, Maurice (1861-1932)2
Ison, Leonora (1904-1996)2

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Fortidsminder og nutidshjem paa Island

Bruun, Daniel (1856-1931)

1928

"Udgivet med understøttelse af Carlsberg-fondet."

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Fortidsminder og nutidshjem paa Island : orienterende undersøgelser foretagne i 1896

Bruun, Daniel (1856-1931); Carlsbergfondet (Copenhagen, Denmark)

[1897]

"Udgivet paa Carlsbergfondets bekostning."

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Thatched Roof with Heather Ropes, Isle of Skye

Chapman, John

1975

Detail of heather ropes tying down the thatched roof of a crofter's blackhouse on the Isle of Skye. The building has been restored and is in use as part of the Skye Museum of Island Life, Kilmuir, Isl...

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Thatched Roof with Heather Ropes, Isle of Skye

Chapman, John

1975

Detail of thatched roof of crofter's blackhouse on the Isle of Skye, tied down with heather ropes and weighted by boulders. The building has been restored and is in use as part of the Skye Museum of I...

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Thatched Blackhouse on Skye

Chapman, John

1975

Thatched side-building at crofter's blackhouse, restored and in use as part of the Skye Museum of Island Life, Kilmuir, Isle of Skye. Hay sledge(?) and cartwheel propped up against front wall. Mounted...

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Thatched Blackhouse on Skye

Chapman, John

1975

Thatched crofter's blackhouse with side building, restored and in use as part of the Skye Museum of Island Life, Kilmuir, Isle of Skye. Hay sledge(?) and cartwheel propped up against front wall of sid...

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Fra de færøske bygder

Bruun, Daniel (1856-1931)

1904

"Særtryk af ʻTidsskrift for landøkonomi̓."

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Solove︠t︡skie ostrova

Bartenev, Igorʹ Aleksandrovich; Dmitrenko, M V

1969

An album of photographs.

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The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder (Vol 2)

Carter, John (1748-1817); Cook, Andrew George; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Ison, Leonora (1904-1996); Ison, Walter (1908-1997); Harris, John (1931-); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979)

[between 1794 and 1817]

Society of Architects = John Carter. The second volume consists of the plates and their explanatory notes. Originally issued in monthly parts between 1774 and 1778 as: The builder's magazine: or Mon...

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The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder (Vol 1)

Carter, John (1748-1817); Cook, Andrew George; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Ison, Leonora (1904-1996); Ison, Walter (1908-1997); Harris, John (1931-); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979)

[between 1794 and 1817]

Society of Architects = John Carter. The second volume consists of the plates and their explanatory notes. Originally issued in monthly parts between 1774 and 1778 as: The builder's magazine: or Mon...

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Fra de færøske bygder : samlede afhandlinger om gammeldags sæd og skik

Bruun, Daniel (1856-1931)

1929

"Udgivet med understøttelse af Carlsbergfondet." "Denne bog indeholder dels en samling tidligere offentliggjorte, nu paa ny gennemsete afhandlinger, dels en del nyt, ikke forud behandlet stof, saal...

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Exploration archéologique de Délos

Robert, Fernand (1908-1992); Homolle, Théophile (1848-1925); École Française d'Athènes

1952

Bibliographical footnotes.

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