Langley, Batty 1696-1751.
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The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer . Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working, I. The five orders of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modillions. II. Block and cantaliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, domes, scales and stair-cases. Illustrated by upwards of 220 examples, engraved on 108 copper-plates. By B. and T. Langley.
Langley, Batty 1696-1751.Date: 1768- E-books
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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 of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L. B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. And also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English. Together with Their most valuable designs for Temples, Triumphal Arches, Portico's, Colonades, Piazza's, Arcades, Frontispieces, Gates and Doors, Windows, Niches, Entablatures, Pediments, Capitals, Festoons, Trophies, Ballusters, Balconies, Ballustrades, Cieling-Pieces, Chimney-Pieces, Floors, Pavements, Arches, Groins, Stair-Cases, Roofs, Obelisques, Ornaments, &c. 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 Term of Art used herein. By B. Langley.
Langley, Batty 1696-1751.Date: 1736- E-books
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The City and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs or, the art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated, by upwards of four hundred grand designs, for Peirs, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney Pieces, Tabernacle Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochps, Pulpits, Types, Altar Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sundials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Ciellings, and Iron Works. Finely engraved on 186 large quarto plate; Proportion by aliquot parts: To which are Prefix's, The Five Orders of Columns; according to Andrea Palladio, whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner, than has been yet done. The Whole interspersed, With sure rules, for Working, all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modilions, &c. The like, for the Immediate Use of workmen never published before, in any Language. By Batty Langley.
Langley, Batty 1696-1751.Date: 1740- E-books
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A sure method of improving estates , By plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods. &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantages thereof; their manner of raising, cultivating, selling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd. Offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham.
Langley, Batty 1696-1751.Date: 1728- E-books
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The Builders compleat assistant , or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. VII. Mechanick Powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by equal parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large Quarto Copper-Plates. By B. Langley.
Langley, Batty 1696-1751.Date: 1750