The Mirror of Architecture or, The Ground-Rules of the Art of Building, exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi...Reviewed and inlarged with the addition of a diagonal scale ... by Joachim Schuym of Amsterdam . Translation out of the Dutch by W.F. Hereunto is added the description and use of an ordinary joynt-rule ... by John Browne

Various artists/makers

1693

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Title: The Mirror of Architecture or, The Ground-Rules of the Art of Building, exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi...Reviewed and inlarged with the addition of a diagonal scale ... by Joachim Schuym of Amsterdam . Translation out of the Dutch by W.F. Hereunto is added the description and use of an ordinary joynt-rule ... by John Browne
Author: John Browne (British, 17th century)
Author: Related to Vincenzo Scamozzi (Italian, 1548–1616)
Author: Sir Henry Wotton (British, 1568–1639)
Translator: Joachim Schuym (Dutch, active late 17th century)
Publisher: Nathaniel Rolls (London)
Published in: London
Date: 1693
Medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 7 3/8 × 6 × 11/16 in. (18.7 × 15.2 × 1.8 cm)
Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Object Number: 37.90.5
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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