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1. The lady's album of fancy work: consisting of novel, elegant and useful designs in knitting, netting, crochet and embroidery, with clear and explicit directions for working the patterns.
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2. The third [and fourth] book of Palladio's architecture :‡btranslated from the Italian, and the designs carefully copied by B. Cole, Engraver.
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3. [Central European costume]
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4. I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio.
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5. Patterns of Maw and Co.'s encaustic tile, geometrical mosaic and plain tile pavements, and majolica and enamelled wall tiles, white glazed tiles, etc. :‡bfor entrance halls, corridors, passages, conservatories, churches, cemetery chapels, porches,...
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1. I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio.
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2. The lady's album of fancy work: consisting of novel, elegant and useful designs in knitting, netting, crochet and embroidery, with clear and explicit directions for working the patterns.
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3. The first booke of architecture : entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch and out of Dutch into English
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4. Patterns of Maw and Co.'s encaustic tile, geometrical mosaic and plain tile pavements, and majolica and enamelled wall tiles, white glazed tiles, etc. :‡bfor entrance halls, corridors, passages, conservatories, churches, cemetery chapels, porches,...
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5. Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bucher von menschlicher Proportion durch Albrechten Durer von Nurerberg [sic.] erfunden und beschuben zu nutz allen denen so zu diser kunst lieb tragen
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I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio.
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The first booke of architecture : entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch and out of Dutch into English
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The third [and fourth] book of Palladio's architecture :‡btranslated from the Italian, and the designs carefully copied by B. Cole, Engraver.
219 days ago

Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bucher von menschlicher Proportion durch Albrechten Durer von Nurerberg [sic.] erfunden und beschuben zu nutz allen denen so zu diser kunst lieb tragen
219 days ago

Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects, etc. in English and Latin :‡bcontaining a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from the...
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[Central European costume]
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