An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... Descriptive , and Critical Account of St. Paul's Cathedral , at the Architects ' and Antiquaries ' Club , which was printed , and subsequently reprinted with additions in Brayley and Britton's Public Edifices of London , 8vo .
... Descriptive , and Critical Account of St. Paul's Cathedral , at the Architects ' and Antiquaries ' Club , which was printed , and subsequently reprinted with additions in Brayley and Britton's Public Edifices of London , 8vo .
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Joseph Gwilt Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau Papworth. Brayley and Britton's Public Edifices of London , 8vo . 1825-28 ; this work also contains an account with illustrations by him of the staircase in Ash- burnham House , Westminster , the ...
Joseph Gwilt Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau Papworth. Brayley and Britton's Public Edifices of London , 8vo . 1825-28 ; this work also contains an account with illustrations by him of the staircase in Ash- burnham House , Westminster , the ...
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... edifice is another , in some respects similar , except that it is thirty - eight feet longer . It is marked N on the ... edifices on the banks of the Nile and those on the plain of Merdasht . In both , this member , forming , as it were ...
... edifice is another , in some respects similar , except that it is thirty - eight feet longer . It is marked N on the ... edifices on the banks of the Nile and those on the plain of Merdasht . In both , this member , forming , as it were ...
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... edifices only being built with burnt bricks ; the roofs , mostly flat , have terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to Chardin , there were in his time within the walls 160 mosques , 48 ...
... edifices only being built with burnt bricks ; the roofs , mostly flat , have terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to Chardin , there were in his time within the walls 160 mosques , 48 ...
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... edifices are not of the highest antiquity , says ( 3rd Discourse ) , " that they prove an early connection be- tween India and Africa . The pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and ...
... edifices are not of the highest antiquity , says ( 3rd Discourse ) , " that they prove an early connection be- tween India and Africa . The pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and ...
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