[Architecture]. 3 Titles. ++ Edward Shaw. SHAW’S CIVIL ARCHITECTURE… Bos: John P. Jewett and Company/ Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1852. 6th ed. Thick 4to. Publisher’s ¼ leather and dark brown cloth. Loss to top and base of spine, chipping to joints, corners of covers frayed, surface soiling. Bdg weak between Plates 34-35. Fep has various ownership signatures and other signs of use. Some plates toned. A few plates in the 30’s dampstained, dampstaining to the last several plates. Plate 44 has math computation on verso (not visible from image side). Stain to small portion of image of plate 31. Page 21’s upper right corner has stray ink mark. 102 plates. "...It contains 'a treatise on Gothic architecture, with plates, &c. by Thomas W. Silloway and George M. Harding, architects...' "-Hitchcock 1149. ++ RUDIMENTS OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE, Containing an Historical Account of the Five Orders… Also, Extracts from Vitruvius, Pliny, &c… Lon: J. Taylor, Architectural Library, 1810. Fourth Edition. [iii], iv-xvi, [1]-134, [2], ads [12] pp. 8vo. Duotone gray and light brown paper-covered boards with a printed label carrying its title and price (“Plates. 8s. Boards.”) Spine chipping, has loss at top of spine, joints insecure. Interior good with foxing. 12 copper engravings: 11 plates, small engr portrait on title page, many wood-engraved illustrations on text pages. The 11 plates are numbered to “10,” with 2 plates numbered 4. ++ William E. Bell. CARPENTRY MADE EASY… Phila: Howard Challen, 1868. 8vo. Orig brown cloth. Spine ends and corners of covers chipped/frayed. Binding has several internal weak points. A minority of the plates have dampstain (in most instances limited to upper margin, but within border of a small number of them). Tear within border of Pl 16. Ad for the book is tipped to title leaf. 38 plates.