141. VIGNOLA (JACQUES DE BAROZZIO DE). Règle des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture. Engraved title and 42 plates. Folio, boards, leather back (pages hinged). Amsterdam: Justus Danckers, n.d. 142. WEALE (JOHAN). Quarterly Papers on Architecture. With numerous engravings part of which are colored. 4 vols. 4to, half green morocco, gilt edges. London, 1844-45 143. WILKINSON (ROBERT). Londina Illustrata. Graphic and Historic Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, etc. Over 200 plates, plans, facsimiles, etc. 2 vols. 4to, half morocco. London, 1819-25 144. Hill. plates. Fine copy. WILLARD (S.). Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's With the details of experiments made in quarrying the granite. 14 4to, boards, sheep back (worn). Boston, 1843 145. WINDUS (THOMAS). A New Elucidation of the Subjects on the celebrated Portland Vase, formerly called the Barberini: and the Sarcophagus, in which it was discovered. 9 plates, a few in color. Folio, cloth. London, 1845 146. 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Types et Uniformes, L'Armée Française. Beautifully illustrated with full-page drawings by Detaille, in chromotypogravure, besides numerous woodcuts in the text. 2 vols. folio, half moroceo, gilt top, uncut. Paris, 1885-1889 SCARCE. |