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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 is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, 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 ... By Batty Langley ... Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London, Printed foe A. Bettesworth and J. Batley [etc.] 1728. NA9500 .L26 2 p. ., iii-xvi, [8], [25]-207, 191 p. fold. front., plates (part double, part fold.) 26 cm. 1728 Book
A sure guide to builders: or, The principles ... of architecture ... made easy for the use of workmen ... to which is added, and appendix wherein the ... Acts of Parliament ... relating to builders ... are explained ... Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London, Mears, 1729. NA2540 .L27 [16], 179 p., plates. 25 cm. 1729 Book
The young builder's rudiments : or, The principles of geometry, mehanicks, mensuration and perspective, geometrically demonstrated. Together with the five orders of columns in architecture ... By B. Langley. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London, Printed for J. Millan, 1730. NA2540 .L25 130 p. XXVIII (i.e. 28) fold. plates (incl. tables, diagrs.) 25 cm. 1730 Book
Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice, demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations, viz. Vitruvius, Bramante ... Sir Christoph. Wren, &c., &c., &c. And also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English. Together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches ... ornaments, &c. The whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master, illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on ... copper plates. With a dictionarial index, explaining the terms of art used herein. By B. Langley. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London, The Author [etc.] 1736. Oversize NA2540 .L28f 2 p. ., 3-434 (i.e. 430), xi, [22] p. cccclxxi (i.e. 494) pl. (part fold., incl. plans, diagrs.) 48 cm. 1736 Book
The builder's compleat chest-book, or, Library of arts and sciences absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general ... / by B. Langley. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London : Printed by H. Woodfall for the author, 1738. NA2540 .L26 200 p., 77 p. of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm. 1738 Book
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 ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... To which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns; according to Andrea Palladio ... The whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... By Batty Langley. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London, Printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley, 1740. NA2835 .L261 iv, 24 p. CLXXXIV (i.e. 186) plates. 29 cm. 1740 Book
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. ... Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber ... 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. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London, Printed for J. Hodges, 1741. 9583.562 5 p. l., xx, 263 p. fold front. 21 cm. 1741 Book
Ancient architecture, restored, and improved, by a great variety of grand and uesfull designs, entirely new in the Gothick mode ... engraved on LXIV large Quarto copper plates by Batty and Thomas Langley. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751, Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751 [London, 1742]. Oversize Oversize NA963 .L27q [10] p. 64 pl. 30 cm. 1742 Book
Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions : In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples, and pavillions &c. : With plans, elevations and profiles geometrically explained : To which is added an historical dissertation on Gothic architecture / By B. & T. Langley. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, [1742] Oversize Oversize NA963 .L26q 7 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. 1742 Book
Windsor Castle : plan and elevations / Batty Langley, delin. ; Tho. Langley, sculp. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751, Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751, Brindley, John, d. 1758 [London] : John Brindley, 1743. Oversize NA7746.W5 L363 1743e Scales differ. 1743 Book
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 ... designs ... engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates ... With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... To which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ... The whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. By B.L. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London, Printed for S. Harding, and sold by B. Dod [etc.] 1750. NA2835 .L26 1 p.., 22 p. CLXXXVI pl. 24 pl. (diagrs.) Q. 1750 Book
The builder's director or bench-mate: being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture [etc.]. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 London [H. Webley] 1767. NA2810 .L31s 32 p. engr. plates. 12mo. 1767 Book
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 ... II. block and cantaliver cornices, rustick quoins [etc.] ... By B. and T. Langley. Langley, Batty, 1696-1751, Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751 Edinburgh, Printed for R. Clark, 1744. NA2835 .L24s 32 p. front., 99 pl. (incl. diagrs.) 15 cm. 1774 Book