Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice, demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio ... Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cantaneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. bullant, Julian Mau-clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, &c. &c. &c. And also of the CAriatides, Persians, French, and Spanish and English : together with their most valuable designs ... The whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master, illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates. With a dictionarial index, explaining the terms of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Main entry:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for and sold by the author, at Parliament-stairs, near Old Palace-yard ; Westminster : J. Milan, over-against the Admiralty-office ; and J. Huggonson, printer, in Chancery-lane, MDCCXXXVI [1736]

Description:

2 volumes (volumes I. 2 preliminary leaves, xi, [22] pages, pages 3-343. volumes II. 471 plates, some followed by additional plates in alphabetical sequence.) : folio

Notes:
Head-pieces, end-pieces, initials.
The copy filmed did not have a separate title page for vol. II.
The copy filmed did not have a separate title-page for vol. II.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list ; reel 5, no. A37). The item filmed may be a variant of the item Park lists as no. 37, as it does not show the joint author-ship with Thomas Langley she indicates and since the first volume bears the 1736 date and not the 1734 or 1735 date she tentatively assigns.

Subject:

Architecture.
Architecture Orders.
Arithmetic.
Geometry.
Architecture Ordres.
Arithmétique.
Géométrie.
architecture (discipline)
arithmetic.
geometry.

Added entries:

American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list.

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Location: Library study room microform 48168
Call No.: ID87B7159s119 MFM; ID:89-B7230
Status: Available

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