Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic in which is contained a series of designs for domes, roofs and spires with a number of plates showing the interior construction and finish of bays, window shutters, sliding doors, etc., designed expressly for the joiner's use ; choice examples of The five orders of architecture, selected from the most celebrated specimens of antiquity, with the figured dimensions of their history, projection and profile, and their division into parts, to which is added a number of useful geometrical problems, examples of groins, centering for arches, diagrams of stair lines, with architraves, door mouldings, etc. the whole being illustrated by sixty-six carefully prepared plates accompanied by explanatory text and general essays, to which is appended a copious glossary / by Samuel Sloan, architect.

Main entry:

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859.

Description:

148 pages, lxvi leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Domes -- Roof and spire construction -- Carpentry and joinery -- The five orders (First series) -- The orders in parts (Second series) -- Practical carpentry -- Joinery.

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Subject:

Architecture Details.
Roofs.
Building.
Domes.
Spires.
Buildings.
Architecture Orders.
Architecture Designs and plans.
Roofing.
Architecture Détails.
Toits.
Constructions.
Architecture Ordres.
Architecture Dessins et plans.
Dômes.
Clochers.
Construction.
roofs.
constructions (sculpture)
domes (architectural elements)
architecture (object genre)
steeple crowns.
architectural orders (assembly and style)
architectural drawings (visual works)
steeples (building components)
Architecture

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Architectural drawings

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Location: Library main 49986
Call No.: 373; ID:89-B896
Status: Available

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