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Isaac Ware – Designs of Inigo Jones and others 1731 The book had quite a few empty pages, and very few text, other than that it resembled a “normal” book as we know it.

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Oeuvres d’architecture – Marie-Joseph Peyre – 1765 A few pages of the book were wider than others. Altogether the book was still in very good condition and bigger in size then I expected. The smell of the book reminded me of a church.

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Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), Topographia Galliae, vol.1 (1655) This is a beautiful title page, ilustrated by the son (Caspar Merian) of the Swiss-German engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian. The picture shows two important kings: on the left – the Frankish King Clovis I., who subjugated the last Roman ruler in Gaul – later France. On the…

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Author: James Gibbs Pubblication date: London, 1736 I chose the first image for its interesting arrangement of characters, and the second for the precision and accuracy of the drawing. What particularly struck me about the physical book, apart from the colour of the cover which is very similar to a painting, was its ‘roughness’, very…

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Martino Bassi, Dispareri in Materie d’Architettura, et Prespettiva I chose this page because I found its structure interesting. Initially the lines are linear and of the same length, then they narrow, widen and finally narrow again until there is only room for one word. The second page is a drawing showing a room and some…

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Picture 1: I took this site because of the rustic stone texture in some parts of the building. Picture 2: This building is really similar to the first one but it has much more little details and the texture of the stones isn’t that rustic. The book is old but in good shape probably because…

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William Chambers, A Dissertation on oriental gardening Meeting the book online: Meeting the book personally:

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Autor: Falda, Giovanni Battista Name of the book: Il nouvo splendore delle fabriche in prospettiva di Roma moderna Publish Date: 1773 The reason why I chose this page is because I find out that the column in the front looks really like a cute “monster” with a small head and really big body. The reason…