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Credit: Sales catalogue 12: Charles W. Traylen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![51 ARCHITECTURE.—Btiomrie_p (Reginald) A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1500-1800. Numerous architectural drawings by the author and illustrations from photographs, 2 vols, imp. roy. 8vo, half buckram, t.e.g., London, 1897 £5 52 ARCHITECTURE.—Fritscu (K. E. O.) Denkmaeler Deutscher’ Renaissance. In 12 folios, text and 300 large folio plates or original photographs illustrating interiors and exteriors, gates, doorways, pillars and colonnades, etc., Berlin, 1880-90 £8/8/- 53 ARCHITECTURE.—Gardens Old and New. The Country House and Its Garden Environ- ment. 2 vols, profusely illustrated with photographs of beautiful gardens, fine old country houses, etc., folio, cloth, Country Life, N.D. £4/4/-— 54 ARCHITECTURE.—L[ANGLEY] (B.) The City and Country Builder’s and Workman’s Treasury of Designs ; or the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Archi- tecture. Jilustrated with over 400 designs on 200 dlates, First Epition, 4to, contemporary calf rebacked, London, S. Harding, 1741 £10 55 ARCHITECTURE.—[LzE Bionp].—The Theory and Practice of Gardening: wherein is fully handled All that relates to Fine Gardens, a's Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, etc., containing Divers Plans, and general dispositions of Gardens; new designs of Parterres, Groves, Grass-Plots, Mazes, Banqueting-Rooms... done from the French Original printed at Paris, 1709, by John James of Greenwich, 4to, contemporary panelled calf, hinges weak, 1712 £9 First Edition, very scarce: mentioned by Amherst and Rhode as of 1703, but this is impossible ; the original edition, in French, was 6 years later. 10 double-page plates and other figures in the text. The earliest book devoted to the pleasure garden. 56 ARCHITECTURE.—LE PavLtrE, or LE PAuTRE (Jean) A Collection of above 300 original engravings contained in an oblong folio vol, half morocco, spine defective, N.D. [c. 1670] £8/8/— Jean le Paultre (or Le Pautre) was a draughtsman and engraver well known in his day. dle was apprenticed to a Carpenter and Builder where he learned to draw ornamental designs. Most of his work was for architectural designs for ceilings, friezes, decorative statuary, etc. The present collection of some 300 plates is a representative selection of his art. They are cut to the engraved surfaces, leaving only the arene in most cases, and are laid down one and two to a page. 57 ARCHITECTURE.—Ltovp (Nathaniel) A History of English Brickwork, with examples and notes of the Architectural Use and Manipulation of Brick from Mediaeval Times to the _end of the Georgian Period. 297 plates and numerous diagrams, 4to, cloth, SCARCE, 1925 £9 58 ARCHITECTURE.—PapwortuH (John B., Architect) Rural Residences consisting of a series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and other Ornamental Buildings . . . with some observations on Landscape Gardening. 27 COLOURED PLATES, with descriptive text, sm. folio, new full green levant morocco, tastefully decorated in gilt, gilt top, other edges uncut, ACHOICE COPY, Ackermann, 1818 £14 Complete with the scarce half-title. 59 ARCHITECTURE.—PENNETHORNE (John) and Rosrnson (J.) The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture, Illustrated by Examples from Thebes, At Athens and Rome. Illustrated with 10 wholly or partly coloured plates, 45 plain plates and numerous woodeuts, folio, original half roan, 1878 £8/10/— 60 ARCHITECTURE.—Swarpsrick (John) Robert Adam and his Brothers. Their lives, - work and influence on English Architecture, Decoration and Furniture. 224 plates and illustrations, 4to, cloth, Baisford, 1915 £6 61 ARCHITECTURE.—Top (George) Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, an Aquarium, Conservatories, &c., recently built’ in different parts of England, for various Noblemen and Gentlemen. Including a Hot-House and Green- House in Her Late Majesty’s Gardens at Frogmore. 27 coloured plates (these are a litle stained in outer margin—not affecting the engraved surface), thin folio, new half brown calf gilt, gilt top, London, 1823 r £10 62 ASCHAM (Roger) Apologia Doctissimi Viri pene Aschami, Angli, pro caena Dominica, contra Missam & eius prestigias; in Academia olim Cantabrigiensi exercitationis gratia inchoata . . . Expositiones item antique, in epistolas Divi Pauli ad Titum & Philemonem., Londini, Francisco Coldocko, 1577 . £8/8/- Woodcut title and initial letters. Dedicated to the Earl of Leicester, with his arms on the reverse of the Dedication. 12mo. Calf. Title mounted and some ink underlinings in an early hand. Lacks blank first leaf. S.T.C. No. 825. This is the reprint by Edward Grant of the “Expositiones in Epistolas Divi Pauliad Titum & Philemon,” together with the‘‘ Apologia Doctissimi ’” now published for the first time. 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33161902_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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