Architecture, Roman -- Early works to 1800
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The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated, by Robert Castell (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Architecture, Roman- 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
- The Palace and Park, its Natural History and its Portrait Gallery, Together With a Description of the Pompeian Court, in the Undermentioned Guides: 1. Palalace and Park; 2. Portrait Gallery; 3. Ethnology and Natural History; 4. Extinct Animals; 5. Pompeian Court (5 guides in 1 volume; London: Crystal Palace Library, and Bradbury and Evans, 1854), by Samuel Phillips, R. G. Latham, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and George Scharf, illust. by Philip H. Delamotte
- Philosophia da Arte (Synthese Positiva e Notas á Margem) (in Portguese; Rio de Janeiro: Editora de Leite Ribeiro & Maurillo, 1918), by Vicente Licínio Cardoso
- The Via Gabina Villas: Sites 10, 11, and 13, ed. by Walter M. Widrig (illustrated HTML at Rice)
- The Roman Villa (Corinth series v5; Cambridge, MA: American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Harvard University Press, 1930), by Theodore Leslie Shear (PDF in Greece)
- The South Stoa and its Roman Successors (Corinth series v1 part 4; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1954), by Oscar Broneer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Roman Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2007), by Nancy L. Thompson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- The Four Books of Architecture (based on the third English edition of 1738), by Andrea Palladio, trans. by Isaac Ware (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)
- La Nuova Architettura Famigliare di Alessandro Capra, Architetto, e Cittadino Cremonese: Divisa in Cinque Libri Corrispondenti a' Cinque Ordini, Cioè Toscano, Dorico, Ionico, Corintio, e Composito (in Italian; Bologna: G. Monti, 1678), by Alessandro Capra
- 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)
- Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste (London: Printed for R. Sayer, 1758), by Charles Over (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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
- 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)
- Procopii Caesariensis Opera Omnia (3 volumes in 4, in Greek with Latin commentary; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1905-1913), by Procopius, ed. by Jakob Haury
- 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
- The Four Books of Architecture (based on the third English edition of 1738), by Andrea Palladio, trans. by Isaac Ware (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)
- Grotesque Architecture, Or, Rural Amusement: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Huts, Retreats, Summer and Winter Hermitages, Terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavilions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green-houses, &c., Many of Which May Be Executed with Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees; The Whole Containing Twenty-eight New Designs, with Scales to Each: To Which is Added, an Explanation, with the Method of Executing Them (London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1790), by William Wrighte
- The Temple Builder's Most Useful Companion, Being Fifty Entire New Original Designs for Pleasure and Recreation: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic Taste, Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c.; Together with a Full Explanation, in Letter Press, to Each Design, and Exact Scales for Measurement (London: Printed for I. Taylor, 1774), by Thomas Collins Overton, illust. by Isaac Taylor
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
- volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
- 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
- Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
- The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1784), by Anthony Benezet (Gutenberg text)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
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