An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... Italian 17. French 18. German 19. Spanish and Portuguese 20. Russian SECT . 1. Wants of Mn , and first Buildings . 2. Origin and Progress of Building ... Italy 7. Sicily . • CHAPTER I. CHAPTER III . MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS OF CONSTRUCTION.
... Italian 17. French 18. German 19. Spanish and Portuguese 20. Russian SECT . 1. Wants of Mn , and first Buildings . 2. Origin and Progress of Building ... Italy 7. Sicily . • CHAPTER I. CHAPTER III . MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS OF CONSTRUCTION.
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... Italy has any complete work of the kind appeared . In the English , as in other languages , there are doubtless ... Italian architecture ; but it does not embrace the history even of these branches , nor does it contain a word on the ...
... Italy has any complete work of the kind appeared . In the English , as in other languages , there are doubtless ... Italian architecture ; but it does not embrace the history even of these branches , nor does it contain a word on the ...
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... Italy , in company with his friend Mr. J. S. Hayward . For his own use when abroad he prepared from Milizia's Lives of Architects the Notitia Architectonica Italiana , or Concise Notices of the Buildings and Architects of Italy , which ...
... Italy , in company with his friend Mr. J. S. Hayward . For his own use when abroad he prepared from Milizia's Lives of Architects the Notitia Architectonica Italiana , or Concise Notices of the Buildings and Architects of Italy , which ...
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... Italy , Greece , Syria , Arabia , Persia , and Hindostan ; and that one of the two alphabets ( of the same system ) in which the Irish MSS . are written - viz . the Beth - luis - nion - came by Gaul through Britain to Ireland ; and that ...
... Italy , Greece , Syria , Arabia , Persia , and Hindostan ; and that one of the two alphabets ( of the same system ) in which the Irish MSS . are written - viz . the Beth - luis - nion - came by Gaul through Britain to Ireland ; and that ...
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... Italy we find examples of Cyclopean works of the class , which Mr. Hamilton places in the second æra ; as at Norba in Latium , Cora , Signia , and Alatrium ; in the three last whereof the walls resemble those of Tiryns , Argos , and ...
... Italy we find examples of Cyclopean works of the class , which Mr. Hamilton places in the second æra ; as at Norba in Latium , Cora , Signia , and Alatrium ; in the three last whereof the walls resemble those of Tiryns , Argos , and ...
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