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A treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture. It contains a variety of information on Greek and Roman buildings, as well as prescriptions for the planning and design of military camps, cities, and structures both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). (From Wikipedia)

The second of three volumes of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus. They contain the plans, elevations, and sections of regular buildings, both public and private, in Great Britain, with a variety of designs reproduced in 200 large engraved plates. Buildings included: Whitehall, designed by Inigo Jones; Covent Garden; The Royal Exchange; Bow Steeple; Design for a Church; York Stairs; Cobham Hall, Kent; Cholmondeley Hall, Cheshire; Eaton Hall, Cheshire; Belton in Lincolnshire; High-Meadow in Gloucestershire; Design for Tobias Jenkins Esq.; Boddington Place, Surrey; MR. Hudson's House at Sunbury, Middlesex; Mr. Waller's House in Beaconsfield; Mr. Rooth's House at Epsom; Melvin House in Scotland; Mr. Campbell's House at Glasgow; Design for a Person of Quality in Somersetshire; Longleate in Wiltshire; Cliefden House in Buckinghamshire; Chevening House in Kent; Design inscribed to Earl Stanhope; Sir Charles Hotham's House at Beverly in Yorkshire; Chester-Lee Street in the Bishoprick of Durham; Design inscribed to Mr. Comptroller Methuen; High Wittham in Somersetshire; Dyrham House in Glocestershire; Newbold Hall in Warwickshire; Althorp in Northamptonshire; Design inscribed to Earl Cadogan.

The first of three volumes of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus. They contain the plans, elevations, and sections of regular buildings, both public and private, in Great Britain, with a variety of designs reproduced in 200 large engraved plates. Buildings included: St. Paul's Church, London; St. Peter's at Rome; Design for a Church in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; St. Philip's Church at Birmingham; Banqueting House at Whitehall; Queen's House at Greenwich; The Great Gallery in Somerset Gardens; Gunnersbury House, near Brentford; Design for the Duke of Argyle; Design for the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Castlemain; Design inscribed to the Earl of Hallifax; Burlington House in Picadilly; Montague House, London; Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland; Marlborough House, St. James's; Powis House, London; Buckingham House; Stoke, Hereford; Kings-Weston, Glocestershire; Lindsey House, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; Willbery, Wiltshire; Design for the Earl of Islay; Blenheim; Castle Howard; Chatsworth; Mr. Johnston's House at Twickenham; Sir William Yonge's House; Mr. Cary's House at Roehampton; Greenwich Hospital; Thorsby House; Stainborough; Design for Lord Percival; Lord's Leimpster's House.

The third of three volumes of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus. They contain the plans, elevations, and sections of regular buildings, both public and private, in Great Britain, with a variety of designs reproduced in 200 large engraved plates. Buildings included: Greenwich Hospital; Castle Howard; Ambersbury, Wiltshire; Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire; Stoke Park, Northamptonshire; General Wade's House, Great Burlington street, London; Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire; Eastbury, Dorsetshire; Seaton-Delaval, Northumberland; Burlington House, in Picadilly, London; Houghton, Norfolk; Mereworth Castle, Kent; Wanstead, Essex; Stourhead Castle, Wiltshire; The Rolls, Chancery Lane; Newby, North Riding, Yorkshire; Ebberton Lodge, near Scarborough, Yorkshire; Lord Herbert's House in Whitehall; Hall Barn, near Beaconfield, Bucks; Goodwood, Sussex; MR. Plumptre's House, Nottingham Town; Design for a Bridge at Lambeth; Wilton, Wiltshire; Apple Dorecombe, Isle of Wight; High Meadow, Glocestershire; Long Gate, Wiltshire; Chatsworth, Derbyshire; Belton, Lincolnshire; Woodstock Park, Oxfordshire; Boughton, Northamptonshire; Hampton Court, Herefordshire; Lowther Hall, Westmoreland; Cleremont, Surrey; Cholmondeley, Cheshire; Thorsby, Nottinghamshire; Althorp, Northamptonshire; Duncomb Park, Yorkshire; Atherton, Lancaster; Rookby Park, York; Horse-Heath Hall, A New House at Twickenham, Middlesex; Leyton Grange, Essex; Narford, Norfolk; Caversham, Oxfordshire.

A volume dedicated to the Designs of Inigo Jones, consisting of 73 plates of plans and elevations of Public and Private Buildings. To this collection are added designs of Doors, Windows, Gates, Peers, Chimneys, Insides of Rooms, and Ceilings; also some designs of buildings by the Earl of Burlington. Content of the Plates: General Plan of the Palace; General Plan of the Principal Apartments of the Palace; Plan of King's Apartments; Front of Palace next the Park; The Fifth Order of one of the Pavilions of the foregoing Front with the Plan; The Second Order in large; Front of Palace next the River; The First Order of the Wing of the foregoing Front in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; Front next Westminster; The First Order of one of the Towers of the foregoing in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; The Third Order in large, with the Plan; The Cupola in large, with the Plan; The Front of one side of the Palace, within the great Court and Section of the Buildings at each end of it, with the Side of the Towers; The First Order of the middle of the foregoing Front in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; The Third Order in large, with the Plan; The Basement and First Order of one of the Pavilions of the foregoing Front, in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; Section of the Palace through the Square Court, and the Courts on each side of it, with the Fronts of the Courts on that side next to the Thames; The First Order of the Front of one of the side-Courts in large, with a Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; Section of the King's Apartments, with the Front of the Circular Court; The First Order of the foregoing Front, which is the Persian, in large, with the Plan; The Second Order, which is the Cariatides in large, with the Plan; The Section of the Chapel, by the same Scale as the foregoing Specimens; The Section of the Banqueting-House , by the same Scale; Plan of the Ceiling of the Banqueting-House , by the same Scale; Designs of Windows; Venetian Windows; Designs for Doors; Designs for Rustic Doors; Designs for Temple-Bar, in the Manner of a Triumphal Arch; Rustic Gates; Peers, with Columns, Pilasters and Niches; Rustic Peers with Niches; Designs for Chimney-pieces with their ornaments; Chimney-piece at Sir Robert Walpole's at Houghton; Chimney-piece in the Drawing-room at Kensington; Ceilings; Sides of two Rooms; Side of a Cube Room; Designs for a public Gallery; A Building of the Earl of Burlington's at Chiswick; The Principal Front and Plan of the Apartments of the foregoing House; Inside of the Octagonal Hall; The other Front of the foregoing House, and the Plan and Elevation of a Temple in the Garden at Chiswick. The Second Volume contains 63 plates of the following Buildings: Country House, with Out Houses, Barns, Stables etc.; Design for a Country House; Lodge, with a Ionic Portico; Houses; House, with a Portico of a Composite Order, belonging to His Grace the Duke of Queensbury; House designed by the Earl of Burlington; House, with an Arcade to each Front; House, with Portico's of the Corinthian Order; House, with an Arcade, standing on a Terras, about which is a Ballustrade; Circular Building, with a Portico of the Corinthian Order; Octagonal Building with a Doric Portico, within which is a Circular Court, with Corinthian Pillars; Octagonal Building with Portico's of the Doric Order, in the middle of which is a Octagonal Hall; Circular Building with Ionic Portico's; Square Building, with an Arcade and Portico; Design for Belvoir-Castle; Building with four distinct Appartments; Building of four Appartments, with Portico's in each Front; Plan of a Palace, with two large Courts; Plan of a Palace consisting of 5 Courts with Arcades; Design for a Building with Portico's in the Front; Arcade and Front of the Dormitory at Westminster, by the Earl of Burlington; Design for a School and 40 Alms Houses by the Earl of Burlington, for Sevenoak in Kent; Portico at the West End of the Old Cathedral of St. Paul's; Church of Santo Georgio at Venice, built by Palladio.

Collection of architectural books used by students at the Polytechnic School of Architecture and PCL, including rare and antique editions. Also accompanying the collection are Accessions Registers of The Polytechnic School of Architecture and The Polytechnic College of Architecture and Advanced Building Technology detailing the books.

A book dedicated to a number of detailed drawings of architectural design and ornaments, the volume consists of a series of plates with a short description of each plate, the plates contains plans, sections, elevations, ceiling details, column details, statues and ionice orders all to scale. Plates included are: St. Martin in the Fields; St. Mary le Strand; Marybone Chapel; The Church of All Hallows; St. Clemente Danes; Kings's College at Cambridge; The Public Building at Cambridge; A series of homes for "honourable men"; Monuments and Pavillions; Chimneys, Ironmongary; Cisterns; and Pedestals.

A volume containing the four books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture in Italy. He is deeply influenced by Vitruvius, and after a short Treatise of the Five Orders, he makes observations on the building of Private Houses, Streets, Bridges, Plazzas, Xisti, and Temples. The text is accompanied by numerous original etchings of plans, elevations, sections, and measurements, some to scale. Subjects from the First Book: Considerations before building; Timber; Stones; Sand; Lime; Metals; Qualitites of the ground where foundations ought to be laid; Foundations; Sorts of Walls; Diminution of Walls; The Five Orders used by the Ancients; Swelling and Diminution of Columns, and the Intecolumniations and pilasters; Tuscan Order; Doric Order; Ionic Order; Corinthian Order; Composite Order; Pedestals; Abuses; Loggia's, Entries, Halls, Rooms, and their Form; Pavements and Ceilings; Height of the Room; Several Manners of Vaults; Dimensions of the Doors and Windows; Ornaments of Doors and Windows; Chimneys; Stairs. Subjects in the Second Book: Decorum and Coveninecy that ought to be observed in private edifices; Compartment or disposition of rooms, and of other places; Designs of Town-Houses (from Udene, Friuli; Vicenza, upon the Piazza; Porti; Verona; Vicenza); Tuscan Atrio, or porch; Atrio with four columns; Corinthian Atrio; Atrio Testugginato, and the private houses of ancient Romans; Hall with four columns (tetrastili); Corinthian Halls; Egyptian Halls; Private houses of the Greeks; Sites to be chosen for the construction of Villas; Compartment or disposition of Villas; Designs of Country Houses belonging to some noble Venetians (from Bagnolo, near Lonigo; La Frata, Polesine; Cesalto, near Motta; Masera, near Asolo; Gate near Montagnana, Podoano; Piombino, Castelfranco; Marocco, on the road from Venice to Trevigi; Fanzolo, Trevigiano); Designs of the Villas belonging to some gentlemen of the Terra Firma (from Finale, Vicentine; Le Ghizzole; Pogliana; Lisiera, near Vicenza; Meledo, Vicentine; Campiglia, Vicentine; Cigogna; Angarano, Vicentine; Quinto, near Tesina; Lonedo, Vicentine; Santa Sofia, near Verona; La Miga, Colognefe); Villas of the Ancients; Some Inventions. Subjects in the Third Book: Roads; Distribution of Road in the cities; Ways outside the city (Via Hostientis); What ought to be observed in the building of Bridges, and the site that ought to be chosen; Wooden Bridges and notes on their building; The Bridge directed by Julius Caesar over the Rhine; Bridge of Cismone; Three other Inventions; Bridge of Bassano; Bridge of Vicenza, over the Bacchiglione; Stone Bridge; Bridge of Vicenza, upon the Rerone; Piazze; Piazze o the Greeks; Piazze of the Romans; Ancient Basilicas; Basilicas of the time, and the designs of those in Venice; Palestra and the Xisti of the Greeks. Subjects of the Fourth Book: Sites that ought to be chosen for the building of Temples; Forms of Temples, and their decorum; Aspects of Temples; The Five Kinds of Temples; Compartments of Temples; Designs of some Ancient Temples; Temple of Peace; Temple of Mars the Avenger; Temple of Nerva Trajanus; Temple of Antoninus and of Faustina; Temple of the Sun and of the Moon; Temple called the Galluce; Temple of Jupiter; Temple of Fortuna Virilis; Temple of Vesta; Temple of Mars; Baptisterium of Constantine; Temple of Bramante; Temple of Jupiter Stator; Temple of Jupiter the Thunderer; Pantheon, or Ritonda; Designs of some Temple outside of Rome; Temple of Bacchus; Temple near the Church of Santo Sebastiano, upon Via Appia; Temple of Vesta; Temple of Castor and Pollux; Temple below Trevi; Temple of Scisi; Temple of Nismes; Temple of Concord; Temple of Neptune.

A volume that offers insight on how the characteristics of the Five Orders can be successfully used in the creation of staircases. It begins by offering a succinct description of the orders and the main architectural elements of the buildings. Then it continues with the explanations of the 100 engravings that illustrate it. There are drawings, sections, elevations and measurements at scale of: Tuscan Order (base, capital, architrave, cornice and freeze); Doric Order; Ionic Order; Corinthian Order; Composite Order; Arches of all Orders; Designs from Palladio, of Arches over Arches; Designs of Doors and Windows; Cornices for Doors, or Windows; Manner of Proportioning Pedestal Stairs; Rail and Balluster; Sorts of Pedestal Stairs; Section of a Rail; Flight of Braket Stairs; Stair-Case with Two Flights; Stair-Case with Three Flights; Manner of Squaring Twift-Rails; Common Stair-Case; Circular Soffice for Doors and Windows; Cornice for a Chimney; Cornices and Architraves; Mouldings for Frames; Chimney-Pieces; Designs of Chimneys; Angle-Brackets, Groins and Frets; Truffes; Manner of laying a Frame in Ledgment.

A volume offering insight on the monuments and other architectural structures and decorations of Ancient Rome. It comprises a selection of 128 original engravings with their description. Buildings included are: Pantheon; Temple of Peace; Temple of Venus and Rome; Temple of Antoninus Pius; Temple of Antoninus and Faustina; Temple of Jupiter Stator; Temple of Concord; Temple of Jupiter Thunder ; Temple of Vesta; Temple of Virile Fortune; Temple of Pallas in the Nerva Square; Temple of Minerva called Medica; Temple of Venus and Cupid; Temple of the Ridiculous God; Fountain of Muse Egeria; Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus; Arch of Titus; Arch of Triumph of Constantine the Great; Arch of Drufus ; The Arch of Gallien; Arch of Janus; Theater of Marcellus; Flavian Amphitheater; Camp Amphitheater; Circus of Caracalla; Nerva Square; Trajan's Column and Obelisks; Column of Marcus Aurelius and Obelisks; Obelisks; Milestone and Pieces; Portico of Octavia; Palace of Cesars; Plan of Diocletian Baths; Remains of the same Baths; Plans of the Baths of Caracalla; Remains of the same Baths; Aqua Claudia Aqueducts ; Other Aqueducts outside Rome; Aqueducts of Neron; Remains of the Aqueduct of Neron and the Temple of Fauna; Castle of Aqua Marcia; Aqueduct of the Aqua Virgo; Mausoleum and Adrien's Bridge; The Mausoleum of Caius Cestius; Tomb of Metella; Tomb of Scipios; The Altar or the Tripod of Apollo; The Altar of Bachus; Pieces of Herculaneum; The Centaur; The Centauresse; different antique bas-reliefs and sculptures.