Loudon's Architectural Magazine: And Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building, and Furnishing, and in the Various Arts and Trades Connected Therewith, Volume 1John Claudius Loudon Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman., 1834 |
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... Remarks on Closets , & c . , in Sitting - Rooms 348 Specimens of Studies of Plan - 226 Instructions for choosing a Dwelling - House , more particularly in a Town Architecture considered as an Art of Imagin- ation 145 On the Difference ...
... Remarks on Closets , & c . , in Sitting - Rooms 348 Specimens of Studies of Plan - 226 Instructions for choosing a Dwelling - House , more particularly in a Town Architecture considered as an Art of Imagin- ation 145 On the Difference ...
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... Remarks on this Stove , by a Cor- respondent resident in that City Description of an improved Roasting - Oven Notice of a Marble Table , with a Cast - Iron Pillar , constructed on an economical Principle , under the Direction of John ...
... Remarks on this Stove , by a Cor- respondent resident in that City Description of an improved Roasting - Oven Notice of a Marble Table , with a Cast - Iron Pillar , constructed on an economical Principle , under the Direction of John ...
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... remarks that are deserv- ing of the serious attention of the members of the profession . The first thing I shall notice is that disgraceful mode of giving evidence in courts of justice , which has made the very name of a surveyor a ...
... remarks that are deserv- ing of the serious attention of the members of the profession . The first thing I shall notice is that disgraceful mode of giving evidence in courts of justice , which has made the very name of a surveyor a ...
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... . It may also be worthy of a passing remark ,. reed ( b ) which circumscribes whole compartments of columnar composition ; besides others less important in the embellishments. 20 Extent to which the elementary Forms of.
... . It may also be worthy of a passing remark ,. reed ( b ) which circumscribes whole compartments of columnar composition ; besides others less important in the embellishments. 20 Extent to which the elementary Forms of.
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... remark , that the archi- tecture of Egypt , under this form , offers a powerful , though doubtless an accidental , illustration of local as well as of con- structive fitness . Placed upon far - extended plains , spotted with palm trees ...
... remark , that the archi- tecture of Egypt , under this form , offers a powerful , though doubtless an accidental , illustration of local as well as of con- structive fitness . Placed upon far - extended plains , spotted with palm trees ...
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