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| Title | The Rudiments of Architecture: Being a Treatise on Practical Geometry, on Grecian and Roman Mouldings ... Also, on the Origin of Building, on the Five Orders of Architecture ... Issue 30848 of Early American imprints |
| Author | Asher Benjamin |
| Publisher | author, 1814 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | May 13, 2008 |
| ISBN | 140470955X, 9781404709553 |
| Length | 96 pages |
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