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Total number of records: 32

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture13
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History3
Brotherton Collection1
English Literature1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

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architecture32
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)14
Brunk, Wille3
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)3
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-17793
Baldwin, Robert2
Carter, John (1748-1817)2
Cook, Andrew George2
Harris, John (1931-)2
Ison, Leonora (1904-1996)2
Ison, Walter (1908-1997)2

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Stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello

c. 1865

Thirteen photographs of stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello in Genoa. An inscription in a later hand on the original enclosure notes that the decoration was in place when (Joseph) Alf...

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The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.

1969-1979

This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...

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Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc
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Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc

Vivares, François and others (1709-1780); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Charpentier, Francois-Phillipe? (1734-1817); Angier, Paul (1725-1757); Benoist, Antoine (1721-1770?); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Delafosse, Jean Baptiste? (1721-1806); Eisen, Charles-Doinique-Joseph (1720-1778); Darly, Matthew (1721-1780); Le Romain, Jacques Dumont (1701-1781); Edwards, George (1694-1773); Peyrotte, Alexis (1699-1769); Brunetti, Gaetano? (1758); Babel, Pierre Edme (1775); Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788); Hemerick; Sympson, Samuel (1751); Vivares, Thomas (1744-1783)

[approximately 1754-1798]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Album or scrapbook containing eighteenth-century ornamental plates.

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Reigles generales de l'architecture, sur les cincq manieres d'edifices : ascauoir, thuscane, doric̄q, ionic̄q, corinthe, & cōposite, auec les exemples danticquitez, selon la doctrine de Vitruue

Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554); Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (1502-1550)

1545

Imprint from colophon, which also names the author. Signatures: A-S⁴.

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Opera di Andrea Fulvio delle antichità della città di Roma, & delli edificij memorabili di quella

Fulvio, Andrea (1510-1543); Tramezzino, Michele (1579); Del Rosso, Paolo (1569)

1543

Printer from colophon. Printer's device on title page and 2F8 verso. Running title: Delle antichità delle città di Roma. Signatures: A-2F⁸ (2F7 blank).

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Tratado nuevo de las cosas maravillosas de la alma ciudad de Roma. Adornado de muchas figuras, y en el se va discurriendo de trezientas, y mas iglesias

Felini, Pietro Martire; Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580); Parisio, Prospero; Muñoz, Alonso

1619

"Las antiguidades figuradas del alma ciudad de Roma" by Andrea Palladio with additions by Prospero Parisio: p. [257]-448. Title in red and black.

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Lofthouse (Sweden)
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Lofthouse (Sweden)

January 1965

Wooden loftbod, or lofthouse, at the open-air Upplandsmuseet (?), Gamla Uppsala (Sweden). There are two rooms on each floor of the building.

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