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Practice of Architecture. Containing The Five Orders of Architecture, and an Additional Column and Entablature, With All Their Elements And Details Explained And Illustrated For The Use Of Carpenters And Pracitcal Men
by Benjamin, Asher
- Used
- Condition
- Full contemporary calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1836. Third edition. leather_bound. Full contemporary calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 116 pages. 28 x 22 cm, Sixty plates, plus and additional, Plate A (not noted in "Contents of Plates") following Plate no. 43, and giving four designs for base mouldings. HITCHCOCK 137. Greek orders and exterior and interior trim, plans, elevations, and details of a Doric church on plates 51-56. KARPEL B98. "Benjamin's fifth book. Pl.7 is a new order invented by the author for a specific American use." Benjamin in an explanation notes, "My reasons for so doing proceed from the fact, that more than one half of all columns and entablatures erected in country situations.... belong neither to the Grecian nor Roman system." Scattered foxing throughout, chip at backstrip head.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24090
- Title
- Practice of Architecture. Containing The Five Orders of Architecture, and an Additional Column and Entablature, With All Their Elements And Details Explained And Illustrated For The Use Of Carpenters And Pracitcal Men
- Author
- Benjamin, Asher
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Full contemporary calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition
- Publisher
- Benjamin B. Mussey
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1836
- Keywords
- American Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; American Art; Design;
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ardsley, New York
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