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• Beautiful Buildings in France and Belgium, Including Many Which Have Been Destroyed During the War (New York: Hubbell Pub. Co., c1916), by Charles Harrison Townsend (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Recueil d'Architecture Civile (architectural drawings from the vicinity of Paris, with some French text; Paris: Crapelet, 1812), by J. Ch. Krafft (page images at Wisconsin)
• Royal Palaces and Parks of France (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1910), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Les Fana: ou, Petits Temples Gallo-Romains de la Région Normande (in French; Rouen: J. Lecerf fils, 1909), by Léon de Vesly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Fana: ou, Petits Temples Gallo-Romains de la Région Normande (in French; Rouen: J. Lecerf fils, 1909), by Léon de Vesly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Renaissance Paris: Architecture and Growth, 1475-1600 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by David Thomson (HTML at UC Press)

• Renaissance Paris: Architecture and Growth, 1475-1600 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by David Thomson (HTML at UC Press)

• Discours Historial de l'Antique et Illustre Cité de Nismes en la Gaule Narbonoise (in French; Lyon: G. Roville, 1559), by Jean Poldo d'Albenas (page images with commentary at Architectura)

• Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1986), ed. by Paula Lieber Gerson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Architecture at Rice University (partial serial archives)
• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Active Eye in Architecture (1977), by George Trevelyan (illustrated HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (1922), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (Gutenberg text)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (Rochester, NY: Manas Press, 1910), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Descriptive, Typographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical (Home Cyclopedia #7, 2 volumes in 1; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Descriptive Handbook of Architecture (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, ca. 1905), by Martin A. Buckmaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six Lectures on Architecture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1917), by Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hastings, and Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth (London: Percival and Co., 1892), by Ch. Letourneau (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, by Klaus Herdeg (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• Beautiful Buildings in France and Belgium, Including Many Which Have Been Destroyed During the War (New York: Hubbell Pub. Co., c1916), by Charles Harrison Townsend (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Congrès International des Architectes: Cinquième Session, Tenue à Paris du 29 Juillet au 4 Août 1900; Organisation, Compte Rendu et Notices (in French; Paris: Chaix, 1906)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Bicknell's Village Builder: Elevations and Plans for Cottages, Villas, Suburban Residences, Farm Houses, Stables and Carriage Houses, Store Fronts, School-Houses, Churches, Court-Houses, and a Model Jail; and Exterior and Interior Details for Public and Private Buildings (revised edition; New York: A. J. Bicknell and Co., 1872) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Livre d'Architecture de Jacques Androuet, du Cerceau; Auquel Sont Contenues Diverses Ordonnances de Plants et Elevations de Bastiments pour Seigneurs, Gentilshommes, et Autres qui Voudront Bastir aux Champs (in French; Paris: J. Androuet, 1582), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
• Livre d'Architecture de Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant les Plans et Dessaings de Cinquante Bastimens Tous Differens (in French; Paris: B. Prévost, 1559), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)

• 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 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
• 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)
• 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)

• Handbook of Technical Terms Used in Architecture and Building and Their Allied Trades and Subjects (London: Scott, Greenwood, and Co.; et al., 1904), by Augustine C. Passmore
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Andrea Palladio's Architecture, In Four Books: Containing a Dissertation on the Five Orders and ye Most Necessary Observations Relating to All Kinds of Building (revised by Hoppus; London: Printed for B. Cole and J. Wilcox, 1736), by Andrea Palladio and E. Hoppus, illust. by Inigo Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• De Re Aedificatoria (in Latin; Florence: N. di Lorenzo, 1485), by Leon Battista Alberti (page images with commentary at Architectura)
• Di Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De Architectura Libri Dece: Traducti de Latino in Vulgare Affigurati; Comentati e con Mirando Ordini Insigniti (in Italian; 1521), by Vitruvius Pollio, ed. by Cesare Cesariano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Livre d'Architecture de Jacques Androuet, du Cerceau; Auquel Sont Contenues Diverses Ordonnances de Plants et Elevations de Bastiments pour Seigneurs, Gentilshommes, et Autres qui Voudront Bastir aux Champs (in French; Paris: J. Androuet, 1582), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
• Livre d'Architecture de Jaques Androuet du Cerceau: Contenant les Plans et Dessaings de Cinquante Bastimens Tous Differens (in French; Paris: B. Prévost, 1559), by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (page images and PDF transcription with commentary at Architectura)
• Pain's British Palladio: or, The Builder's General Assistant (London: I. and J. Taylor, 1788), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Practical House Carpenter; or the Youth's Instructor (London: William Pain, 1792), by William Pain (page images at Wisconsin)
• 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 of Architecture: With Remarks and Observations, Necessary for Young People Who Would Apply Themselves to That Noble Art (London: R. Ware, 1732), by Sébastien Le Clerc, trans. by Ephraim Chambers, illust. by John Sturt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients (translated from the 1683 original; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1993), by Claude Perrault, ed. by Alberto Pérez Gómez, trans. by Indra Kagis McEwen (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Robin Middleton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, in Ten Books, by Vitruvius Pollio, trans. by Joseph Gwilt (HTML at Chicago)
• Discours Historial de l'Antique et Illustre Cité de Nismes en la Gaule Narbonoise (in French; Lyon: G. Roville, 1559), by Jean Poldo d'Albenas (page images with commentary at Architectura)
• Useful Architecture (London: Robert Sayer, 1760), by William Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Country Gentleman's Pocket Companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture (second edition; London: Robert Sayer, 1756), by William Halfpenny and John Halfpenny (page images at Wisconsin)

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