The builder's guide : a practical treatise on Grecian and Roman architecture, together with specimens of the Gothic style. Also, practical treatises on geometry, decimal fraction, mensurations, trigonometry, and carpentry and joinery, embracing all necessary details, and particularly adapted to the wants of the less experienced / rev. and improved, with additions of villa and school house architecture, by H. Austin and Henry Barnard.

Main entry:

Hills, Chester.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Hartford : Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1846.

Description:

15, [1], [xvii]-xx, [17]-96 pages, 50 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 39 cm

Notes:
The frontispiece and plates 1-4 are villas by Austin. Pp. 89-96, figs. 1-38 are Barnard's schoolhouses.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography ; reel 43, no. 592).

Subject:

Building.
Architecture.
Mathematics.
Construction.
Mathématiques.
constructions (sculpture)
architecture (discipline)

Added entries:

Austin, Henry, 1804-1891.
Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900.
American architectural books : based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room microform 48506
Call No.: ID87B7159s43 MFM; ID:89-B7556
Status: Available

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