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The Architecture of the Renaissance in France, vol. 2
ABC/345 · 1926
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A second small volume that gives a general view of the Architecture of the Renaissance in France, A History of the Evolution of the Arts of Building, Decoration and Garden Design under Classical Influence from 1495 to 1830. The text is accompanied by numerous illustrations (photographs, drawings, sections, elevations and plans) in the text. The Chapters of this book cover the following subjects: Style of Louis XIV; Barocco-Palladian Compromise; Style of Louis XV; Rococo-Palladian Compromise; Style of Louis XVI; Puristic Reaction, Beginnings of Archaeological Tendency; Style of the Empire; Archaeological Classicism. Buildings included: Versailles; Hotel de la Vrilliere; Hotel Roland; Hotel d'Aumont, Rue de Jovy, Paris; Hotel Carnavalet; Hotel Lambert de Thorigny, Rue St. Louis-en-l'Ile; Hotel de Monceaux; Hotel de Beauvais, Rue Francois Miron; Bureau des Marchands Drapiers; Chateau of Maisons; Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte; Chateau of Turny; 'College des Quatre Nations' or 'Mazarin', now 'Institut', Paris; Louvre and Tuileries; The Louvre; Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre; Versailles; Royal Pavilion at Marly; Porte St. Denis, Paris; Porte du Peyrou, Montpellier; Hospice des Invalides, Paris; Chateau of Choisy; Two Houses in Place Louis-le-Grand, Vendome; Hotel de Soubise, now 'Archives Nationales', Paris; St. Sulpice, Paris; Cathedral of Nancy; Church of the Minims, near Place des Vosges, Paris; Church of the Sorbonne; Church of the Val-de-Grace; Church of the Salpetriere; Church of the College des Quatre Nations; The Invalides, First and Second Church; Font and Canopy, Lampaul; Hotel de Toulouse, Paris; Place Stanislas, Nancy; Hotel de Clermont, Besancon; Hotel Moras, or Biron, Paris; Hotel de le Gendre d'Armini, Rue des Capucines; Hotel d'Amelot, or de Montmorency, 1 Rue St. Dominique; Hotel de Matignon, Paris; House in the Ile St. Louis; Palais Bourbon, Paris; Design for Villa near Geneva, by Blondel; Chantilly, the Stables; Coach Entrance to a Hotel, Laon; Hotel de Saussure, Geneva; Design for 'La Malgrange', near Nancy; Fontaine de ka Grosse Horloge, Rouen; Bourse, Bordeaux; Hotel de Ville, Nancy; Capitole, Toulouse; Notre Dame, Paris; Chapel in St. Jean-en-Greve, Paris; Madeleine Church, Besancon; St. Roch, Paris; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Amiens; Fontaine de Grenelle, Paris; House at 11 Rue Delambe, Amiens; Palace of Compiegne; Petit Trianon; Chancellerie d'Orleans; Galleries of Palais Royal, Paris; House, Caudebec-en-Caux; Hotel Brunoy, Paris; Hotel de Salm, now Chancellerie de la Legion d'Honneur; Hotel Thelusson, Paris; Palace in Place de la Concorde, Paris; Hotel des Monnaies, Paris; Twin Palaces in Place Louis XV, Paris; Ecole Militaire; Palais de Justice, Paris; Old Ecole de Medecine; Royal Opera, Versailles; 'Grand Theatre', Bordeaux; Theatre at Amiens; St. Sulpice, Paris; St. Eustache, Paris; Ste. Genevieve or Pantheon, Paris; First Madeleine Church, Paris; Palace of Arranjuez; Hotel de Pologne, Paris; Napoleon I's Study at La Malmaison; Cafe in the Rue Neuve de Seine, Paris; Napoleon's Study at Compiegne; Chamber of Deputies in Palais Bourbon; Napoleon's Bedroom at Fontainebleau; Arc du Carrousel, Paris; Arc de l'Etoile, or de Triomphe, Paris; Colonne de la Grande Armee, or Vendome, Paris; The Second Madeleine Church; The Bourse, Paris; The Rue de Rivoli, Paris; Terrace House with Shop in Rue Grenelle, Paris; Design for House in Rue Richer, Paris; 'Maison Batave', Rue St. Denis, Paris; St. Vincent de Paul, Paris. Ward, William Henry (1865-1924), architect
English Local Government. The Story of the King's Highway
ABC/346 · 1913
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A theoretical study of the local English Roads Administration, as part of a bigger study of the English Local Government which began in 1899. Table of contents: The King's Highway before the Sixteenth Century; Road Legislation under the Tudors and the Stuarts; Parochial Road Administration; Road Administration by Presentment and Indictment; The New Users of the Roads in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century; The Maintenance of Bridges; The Turnpike Road; "Pontifex Maximus Telford" and "Macadam the Magician"; The Road Legislation of the Nineteenth Century; The New Users of the Roads in the Twentieth Century. Webb, Sidney & Beatrice
Atlas of London
ABC/349 · 1968
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A collection of Plans and Maps that give an elaborate overview of 1960's London from Physical, Historical, Administrative, Social and Economic Points of View.
Choix d’eglises Byzantines en Greece
ABC/35 · 1842
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A selection of Byzantine Churches in Greece, by the architect A. Couchaud. The volume begins by offering an introduction to the history and the three main periods that characterise this type of architecture and short descriptions of the illustrations that follow. Buildings included are: Old Metropolitan Church, Athens; Church of St. Philip, Athens; Church of the Great Virgin, Athens; Church of the Virgin of the Great Monastery, Athens; Church of Saint John, Athens; Church of the Intangibles, Athens; Church of St. Theodore, Athens; Church of Saint Nicodemus, Athens; Church of Kapnicarea, Athens; Church of Saint Taxiarque, Athens; Daphni Monastery, Attica; Kalcis, Euboea; Church of the Virgin, Mistras, Peloponnese; Battlements, Mistras, Peloponnese; Church of Saint Nicolas, Mistras, Peloponnese; Chapel at Androussa, Peloponnese; Church in Samari, Peloponnese; Apsides in Mistras, Peloponnese; Sculptures; Manuscripts; Painted Ornaments. Most of them are represented by drawings, plans, elevations and sections, some to scale. Couchaud, Andre