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61-63 The builder's director, or Bench-mate - being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, made easy to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples ... proportioned by minutes and by equal parts : engraved on 184 copper plates : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures (flera utgåvor) Batty Langley 1790? Engelska
64-65 Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. - in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellas, temples, and pavillions & c : with plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained (flera utgåvor) Batty Langley 1790? Engelska
66 Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration; calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artisans, and set to view in four parts. - Containing, I. Preliminaries or the foundations of the several arts above-mentioned. II. The various orders of architecture, laid down and improved from the best masters; with the ways of making draughts of buildings, gardens, groves, fountains, &c. the laying down of maps, cities, lordships, farms, &c. III. The doctrine and rules of mensuration of all kinds, illustrated by select examples in building, gardening, timber, &c. IV. Exact tables of mensuration, shewing, by inspection, the superficial and solid contents of all kinds of bodies, without the fatigue of arithmetical computation: to which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure. The whole exemplisy'd with a large number of folio copper plates, curiously engraven by the best hands. By Batty Langley Batty Langley 1729 Engelska
67-70 The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. - Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working, I. The five orders-of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scroll'd, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modillions. II. Block and cantaliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, truss'd partitions, girders, roofs and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper-plates. By B. and T. Langley (flera utgåvor) Batty Langley M.DCC.LI; 1751 Engelska
71 A supplement to The builder's jewel. - Containing, I. Mensuration of superficies and solids. II. Balustres. III. Vases. IV. Venetian windows. V. Chimney-pieces. VI. Scales. VII. Stair-cases, VIII. Brackets. IX. Rails. X. Frets. XI. Masques. XII. The gothic order. Illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates Batty Langley MDCCLXIX. 1769 Engelska
72 A sure and easy method of improving estates - By plantation of oak, elm, ash, beech, birch, platanus, Portugal chesnut, horse chesnut, walnut, lime service, maple, sycamore, hornbeam, quickbeam, hazel, fir, pine, and all kinds of aquaticks, &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof; with their manner of raising, cultivating, feeling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber, after the common method; and the deceitful way of taking dimensions. Likewise geometrical rules for the true mensuration thereof. By Batty Langley Batty Langley 1740 Engelska
73 A survey of Westminster Bridge, - As 'tis now sinking into ruin. Wherein the cause of the foundation giving way under the sinking pier, and its dislocated arches, is not only accounted for; but also, that the whole structure is likewise subject to the same immediate (if not unavoidable) ruin. With remarks on the piratical method used for building the piers. And a just estimate of the expence for which all their foundations might have been made secure with piles, until every stone, with which the bridge is built, was torn into atoms, by the hungry teeth of devouring time. By Batty Langley, of Meard's Court, Dean-Street, Soho, architect Batty Langley 1748 Engelska
74 A sure method of improving estates, - By plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods. &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantages thereof; their manner of raising, cultivating, selling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd. Offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham Batty Langley MDCCXXVIII. 1728 Engelska
75 New principles of gardening: or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before - With experimental direction trees, ever-greens and flowering shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, ... medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty eight folio plates, by the best hands Batty Langley 1739 Engelska
76 The landed gentleman's useful companion: or, A sure and easy method of improving estates - By plantation of oak, elm, beech, birch, platanus, portugal chesnut, horse chesnut, walnut, lime, service, maple, sycamore, hornbeam, quickbeam, hazel, fir, pine, and all kinds of aquaticks, &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof; with their, manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber, after the common method; and the deceitful way of taking dimensions. Likewise geometrical rules for the true mensuration thereof. The whole being founded on above thirty years experience, and now first published for the benefit of the publick by a country gentleman Batty Langley 1741 Engelska
77 The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs or The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. - Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chinmey-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings, and iron works. Proportioned by aliquot parts. With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. To which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done. The whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before, in any language. By B.L Batty Langley 1736 Engelska
78 New principles of gardening: or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. - After a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before. With experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens, and flowering-shrubs, with which gardens are adorn'd. To which are added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses, and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick garden, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty-eight folio plates, by the best hands. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham Batty Langley MDCCXXXIX. 1739 Engelska
79 The London prices of bricklayers materials and works, both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained: and the common exactions and abuses therein detected. - Interspersed with rules for estimating, performing and measuring all kinds of plain, circular, elliptical, gothick, spherical, spheroidical, conical and pyramidical brick-works: wherein the abutments of all sorts of arches, and the manner of building brick-flooring for the prevention of fire, is clearly explained. The whole arithmetically and geometrically demonstrated. Also illustrated with a great variety of designs for plain and rusticated piers, for gates, piazzas, &c. in thirty-two curious copper plates. Written for the use of gentlemen, stewards, and workmen in general, and particularly for such landlords and tenants who are subject to the repairs of buildings. By Batty Langley, architect Batty Langley 1750 Engelska
80 The builder's vade-mecum - Or, A complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where, by way of dialogue in nine lectures, the etymology, characters, proportions, profiles, ornaments, measures and dispositions of the members of their several columns and entablatures are distinctly consider'd and explain'd, with respect to the practice of palladio. Together with the manner of drawing the geometrical elevation of the five orders of columns in architecture and to measure the several parts of buildings in general: illustrated on seven coper-plates, being a necessary companion for all gentlemen's as well as masons, carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, &c. and all others concern'd in the several parts of buildings in general. By B. Langley, of Twickenham Batty Langley 1729 Engelska

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