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• Common-Sense Stair Building and Handrailing (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1913), by Fred T. Hodgson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Stair-Building and the Steel Square: A Manual of Practical Instruction in the Art of Stair-Building and Hand-Railing, and the Manifold Uses of the Steel Square (Chicago: American Technical Society, 1917), by Fred T. Hodgson and Morris Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Recueil Élémentaire d'Architecture: A Selection of Plates, Mostly of Interiors and Wrought Iron (extracts from a multi-volume reference work, with descriptions in French; Washington: The Reprint Co., 1909), by Jean François de Neufforge
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, or, The Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture (London: S. Harding, 1756), by Batty Langley (page images at Wisconsin)
• Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage (London: B. Quaritch, reprinted 1886), by James Page
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Interiors Beautiful, and the Decoration of the Home (6th revised edition; Minneapolis: M.L. Keith, ca. 1922)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Modern Builder's Guide (New York: Paine and Burgess, 1846), by Minard Lafever
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Second Livre d'Architecture par Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant Plusieurs et Diverses Ordonances de Cheminees, Lucarnes, Portes, Fonteines, Puis, et Pavillons, Pour Enrichir Tant le Dedans que le Dehors de Tous Edifices (in French; Paris: A. Wechel, 1561), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images with commentary at Architectura)
• A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture (with added notes by Gwilt and a life of the author by Hardwick; 2 volumes; London: Priestly and Weale, 1825), by William Chambers, ed. by Joseph Gwilt, contrib. by Thomas Hardwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moderne Fassaden in Farbiger Darstellung (2 volumes in 1, in German; Leipzig: Deutscher Architektur-Verlag, ca. 1900), by Richard Landé
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• New England Georgian Architecture: 55 Measured Drawings With Full Size Details (New York: Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1913), by Ralph Clarke Kingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practical House Carpenter; or the Youth's Instructor (London: William Pain, 1792), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
• Fragments d'Architecture Antique, d'Après les Relevés & Restaurations des Anciens Pensionnaires de l'Académie de France à Rome (2 volumes in French; Paris: Lib. Generale de l'Architecture et de Travaux Publics, n.d.), ed. by H. d' Espouy
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Arch of Titus, and the Spoils of the Temple (London: Religious Tract Society, 1896), by William Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (London: W. Heinemann, 1896), by E. P. Evans (PDF with commentary at bestiary.ca)
• Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1896), by E. P. Evans (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Symbolism of Animals and Birds Represented in English Church Architecture (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1913), by Arthur H. Collins
  • PDF files at bestiary.ca
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Description of the Trajan Column, by John Hungerford Pollen (illustrated HTML at Chicago)

• Performance Driven Envelopes (Imagine series, #3; Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, c2011), by Ulrich Knaack, Tillmann Klein, Marcel Bilow, and Holger Techen (PDF in the Netherlands)

• Moderne Fassaden in Farbiger Darstellung (2 volumes in 1, in German; Leipzig: Deutscher Architektur-Verlag, ca. 1900), by Richard Landé
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History and Manufacture of Floorcloth and Linoleum: A Paper Read Before the Bristol Section of the Society of Chemical Industry at the University, Nov. 21st, 1918 (Bristol: Printed by W. R. Powell, Ltd., 1918), by M. W. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fine Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum: Twenty Examples, Reproduced for the First Time in Colour, of Old Carpets from Persia, India, Caucasia, Armenia, Turkey, China, Spain and England (1924), by A. F. Kendrick and C. E. C. Tattersall (page images at CMU)

• The Carpet and Upholstery Trade Review (partial serial archives)

• The History and Manufacture of Floorcloth and Linoleum: A Paper Read Before the Bristol Section of the Society of Chemical Industry at the University, Nov. 21st, 1918 (Bristol: Printed by W. R. Powell, Ltd., 1918), by M. W. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The History and Manufacture of Floorcloth and Linoleum: A Paper Read Before the Bristol Section of the Society of Chemical Industry at the University, Nov. 21st, 1918 (Bristol: Printed by W. R. Powell, Ltd., 1918), by M. W. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Popular Rug Techniques, by Elmer Wallace Hickman (PDF at Arizona)

• Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), by Daniel S. Walker (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), by Daniel S. Walker (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Fine Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum: Twenty Examples, Reproduced for the First Time in Colour, of Old Carpets from Persia, India, Caucasia, Armenia, Turkey, China, Spain and England (1924), by A. F. Kendrick and C. E. C. Tattersall (page images at CMU)
• The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1923), by Joseph Breck and Frances Morris (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944), by M. S. Dimand (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Handbook of Mohammedan Decorative Arts (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1930), by M. S. Dimand
  • page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Edifici Bizantini di Scarpanto: Mosaici ed Iscrizioni (in Italian; Rhodes: Tipogr. editr. Rodia, 1925), by Giulio Jacopi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), by Alexis Belis (illustrated HTML at getty.edu)

• Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), by Alexis Belis (illustrated HTML at getty.edu)

• The Conservation of the Orpheus Mosaic at Paphos, Cyprus (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1991), contrib. by Nicholas Stanley-Price (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• The Conservation of the Orpheus Mosaic at Paphos, Cyprus (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1991), contrib. by Nicholas Stanley-Price (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Guide Book to the Tiled Pavement in the Capitol of Pennsylvania (Doylestown, PA: B. McGinty, c1910), by Henry C. Mercer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Concrete Cross Tie and Fastener Loads (US Dept. of Transportation interim report; 1977), by R. H. Prause, H. D. Harrison, James C. Kennedy, and R. C. Arnlund (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elementary Arithmetic: Its Meaning and Practice (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1947), by B. R. Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretic Arithmetic, in Three Books (London: Printed for the author by A. J. Valpy, 1816), by Thomas Taylor (PDF at djm.cc)

• An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1897), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google)
• The Foundations of Mathematics: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Geometry, by Paul Carus (page images at Cornell)

• Introduction to Mathematical Analysis (c2015), by Beatriz Lafferriere, Gerardo Lafferriere, and Nguyen Mau Nam (PDF at pdx.edu)

• The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• Tower Legends, by Bertha Palmer Lane (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• L'Architecture, la Décoration, l'Ameublement (mostly pictures, with captions in French; Paris: Claesen, ca. 1870), by Eugène Prignot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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