The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ...

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The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ...
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Le Muet, Pierre, 1591-1669.
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London :: Printed for Robert Pricke ...,
1670.
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Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Building -- France -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47667.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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A CATALOGUE of some Books and Prints, as are Printed for Robert Prick and are to be sold at his Shop in White-cross-street, and likewise at the Golden Lion at the Corner of New-Cheapside near Bethlehem.

A New Treatise of Architecture, according to Vitruvius. Wherein is discoursed of the five Orders of Columns, viz. The TUSCAN, DORICK, IONICK, CORINTHIAN, and COMPOSITE. Divided into seven Cha∣pters. Which declare their different Proporti∣ons, Measures and proper Names, according to the Practice of the ancient Architects, both Greeks and Romans; as also of their Parts general and particular, necessary in the build∣ing of Temples, Churches, Palaces, Castles, Fortresses, and all other Buildings, with their Dependents: As Gates, Arches-Triumphant, Fountains, Sepulchres, Chimneys, Cross-hard Windows, Portals, Platforms, and other Or∣naments; serving as well for the beautifying of Buildings in Cities, as for necessary Forti∣fications of them. Designed by Julian Mau∣clerc, Lord of Ligneron Mauclerc, Bros∣sandiere and Remanguis. Whereunto are added the several Measures and Proportions of the famous Architects, Scamozzi, Palladio, and Vignola: With some Rules of Perspe∣ctive. The whole represented in fifty large Prints, enriched with the rarest Ornaments of Antiquity, and Capitals of extraordinary greatness, with their Architraves, Frieses, and Cornishes proportionable.

A New Book of Architecture, Wherein is re∣presented fourty Gates and Arches Triumphant, Composed of different Inventions, according to the Five Orders of Columns, viz. The Tus∣cane, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite. By Alexander Francine Florentine, Engineer in Ordinary to the French King: With a Description of each Figure.

A Book of Architecture, containing Cieling-pieces, Chimney pieces, and several sorts use∣ful for, Carpenters, Joyners, Carvers, Paint∣ers, invented by J. Barbet.

GETHINGS Redivivus: or the Pens Ma∣ster-piece. Being the last Work of that Emi∣nent and Accomplished Master in this Art. Con∣taining Examples of all curious Hands Writ∣ten, and now in Practice in England, and the Neighboring Nations: With necessary Rules and Directions towards the attaining of Fair Writing. Also Directions for making the best Pens, and several sorts of very good Ink, as Black, Red, Green, Yellow, and Purple; And how to write with Gold and Silver, and to polish it to make it glister. Likewise how to Etch or Engrave a Coat of Arms, Figure or Posie, on Silver, Copper, Brass, Iron, or hardned steel. With an Appen∣dix, Shewing the exact manner of making all sorts of Bonds, Letters of Attourney, Releases.

A New Book of the Art of Drawing, contain∣ing several plain and easie Examples, fit for Learners to practise by, Collected out of the Works of some of the most eminent Masters of this famous Art, Albertus Durer, Abraham Bloemaert, and divers others, so plain, that any one of reasonable capacity may learn to draw all parts of a man several, as head, arms, legs, hands and feet by themselves, al∣so in whole Proportion, &c.

A Book of Mauntlins.

A Book of Sheilds.

A Book of Anticks.

A large Map of London before the Fire, with a Description of the Antiquities and Cu∣stoms.

Another Map of the aforesaid City, as it lay in its Ruins, wherein may be seen what Chur∣ches, Halls, and Places of note, with a mul∣titude of Houses that were burned and rui∣nated in four days time, by that dreadful and lamentable fire which begun in Pudding-lane Dec. 2. 1666.

Jupiter and Venus of Sir Anthony Van Dike's Etching.

The Anatomie of the inward parts of Man and Woman, lively set forth, and diligentlie, de∣claring the principal Veins, with the use of letting Blood: very necessarie for Physicians and Chyrurgions, and all other that desire to know themselves.

The New and pleasant Game of the Goose.

The five Senses in large Royal sheets.

The four Seasons in large sheets.

Scripture-stories in large sheets, as Adam and Eve, Abraham offering up his Son Isaac, Elisha fed by Ravens, with the woman of Samaria, the Judgement of Solomon be∣tween the two Harlots, Susanna and the two Elders, Queen Esther, &c. even all others of the old and New Testament.

BOOKS of Land-skips, Sea-pieces, Birds, Beasts, Flies, Flowers and Fruits, these with several others, black and white or coloured, are to be sold at the above said places.

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