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• Building -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Scaffolding -- Early works to 1800

• Description des fermes, sur lesquelles on ceintre actuellement en France, les grandes arches des ponts (De l'imprimerie de G. Bigg ... et se trouve chez l'auteur ..., 1781), by Le Turc (page images at HathiTrust)

• Castelli e ponti di Maestro Niccola Zabaglia ... La descrizione del transporto dell'Obelisco Vaticano ... del cavaliere Domenico Fontana (Ex typographia Palladis, excudebant Nicolaus et Marcus Palearini ..., 1743), by Niccola Zabaglia, Giacomo Sangermano, Giuseppe Vasi, Francesco Rostagni, Alessandro Specchi, Carlo Fontana, and Domenico Fontana (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Certification program for bridge temporary works. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration ;, 1993), by United States. Federal Highway Administration and Shoring Scaffolding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Construction handbook for bridge temporary works. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration ;, 1993), by Safdar Gill, Flora Calabrese, John F. Duntemann, United States. Federal Highway Administration, and Janney Wiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide design specification for bridge temporary works. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration ;, 1993), by John F. Duntemann, United States. Federal Highway Administration, and Janney Wiss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Certification program for bridge temporary works. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration ;, 1993), by United States. Federal Highway Administration and Shoring Scaffolding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Construction handbook for bridge temporary works. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration ;, 1993), by Safdar Gill, Flora Calabrese, John F. Duntemann, United States. Federal Highway Administration, and Janney Wiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide design specification for bridge temporary works. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration ;, 1993), by John F. Duntemann, United States. Federal Highway Administration, and Janney Wiss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scaffolding: A Treatise on the Design and Erection of Scaffolds, Gantries, and Stagings, With an Account of the Appliances Used in Connection Therewith, For the Use of Contractors, Builders, Clerks of Works, Etc.; With a Chapter on the Legal Aspect of the Question (London: B. T. Batsford, 1904), by A. G. H. Thatcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scaffolding: A Treatise on the Design and Erection of Scaffolds, Gantries, and Stagings, With an Account of the Appliances Used in Connection Therewith, For the Use of Contractors, Builders, Clerks of Works, Etc.; With a Chapter on the Legal Aspect of the Question (second edition; London: B. T. Batsford, 1907), by A. G. H. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Builders' machinery and equipment : dealing with lifting equipment, steel scaffolding, small tools, concrete mixers, excavating machinery, and temporary timbering (Chemical Pub. Co., 1942), by Edward Molloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on safety engineering as applied to scaffolds. (The Travelers insurance company, 1915), by Travelers Insurance Companies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Castelli e ponti di Maestro Niccola Zabaglia ... La descrizione del transporto dell'Obelisco Vaticano ... del cavaliere Domenico Fontana (Ex typographia Palladis, excudebant Nicolaus et Marcus Palearini ..., 1743), by Niccola Zabaglia, Giacomo Sangermano, Giuseppe Vasi, Francesco Rostagni, Alessandro Specchi, Carlo Fontana, and Domenico Fontana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation into collapse of false work, Arroyo Seco Bridge, road 07-LA-210. (State of California, Business and Transportation Agency, Dept of Public Works, Division of Highways, 1973), by California. Division of Highways (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Your initial cost is your final cost : cut down that overhead expense (1927), by Builders' Patent Scaffolding Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladders and scaffolding ([Watervliet, N.Y.?] : John S. Tilley Ladders Co., [between 1930 and 1939?], 1930), by John S. Tilley Ladders Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orange Ladder and Bracket Manufacturing Co. (Orange, N.J. : Orange Ladder and Bracket Manufacturing Co., 1920., 1920), by Orange Ladder and Bracket Manufacturing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scaffolding : a treatise on the design & erection of scaffolds, gantries, and stagings, with an account of the appliances used in connection therewith for the use of contractors, builders, clerks of works, etc., with a chapter on the legal aspect of the question, by A. G. H. Thatcher (Gutenberg ebook)

• Occupational fatalities related to scaffolds as found in reports of OSHA fatality/catastrophe investigations (The Office, 1979), by Patricia P. Breslin, William W. Cloe, and United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Office of Statistical Studies and Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Your initial cost is your final cost : cut down that overhead expense (1927), by Builders' Patent Scaffolding Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladders and scaffolding ([Watervliet, N.Y.?] : John S. Tilley Ladders Co., [between 1930 and 1939?], 1930), by John S. Tilley Ladders Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orange Ladder and Bracket Manufacturing Co. (Orange, N.J. : Orange Ladder and Bracket Manufacturing Co., 1920., 1920), by Orange Ladder and Bracket Manufacturing Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• A guide to scaffold use in the construction industry. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration :, 1997), by United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to scaffold use in the construction industry. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration :, 1998), by United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to scaffold use in the construction industry. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration :, 2002), by United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Preliminaries - excavating - piling - mortars (International Textbook Co., 1935), by William S. Lowndes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Builders' machinery and equipment : dealing with lifting equipment, steel scaffolding, small tools, concrete mixers, excavating machinery, and temporary timbering (Chemical Pub. Co., 1942), by Edward Molloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern underpinning : development, methods and typical examples (John Wiley & Sons ;, 1917), by Lazarus White and Edmund Astley Prentis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on shoring and underpinning, and generally dealing with ruinous and dangerous structures. (B.T. Batsford, 1882), by Cecil Haden Stock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on shoring & underpinning & generally dealing with ruinous & dangerous structures. (Batsford, 1902), by Cecil Haden Stock and F. R. Farrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of lumber used for bracing trenches in the United States (Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards : for. sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Print. Off., 1980), by Center for Building Technology, Lawrence I. Knab, United States. National Bureau of Standards, and United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shored mechanically stabilized earth (SMSE) wall systems design guidelines (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Central Federal Lands Highway Division, 2006), by Kimberly Finke Morrison, Yeh and Associates, Ltd Colin Group, Inc Golder Associates, and United States. Central Federal Lands Highway Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Excavating, shoring, and piling, footing and foundations, areas, vaults, and retaining walls, cements, concrete construction, stone masonry, stone arches, carpentry, mechanics of carpentry, joinery, the steel square. (International Textbook Company, 1909), by International Textbook Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?, 1995), by Roy E. Leach, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slurry walls. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response ;, 1992), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development and United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advanced process for forming underground cutoff walls (U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 1995), by Roy E. Leach, Earnest E. Carter, Richard Kent Saugier, Geotechnical Laboratory (U.S.), Construction Productivity Advancement Research Program (U.S.), U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, and United States Army Corps of Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• The Five Orders of Architecture (Norwood, MA: Norwood Press, c1889), by Vignola, trans. by Tommaso Juglaris and Warren S. Locke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Five Orders of Architecture According to Giacoma Barozzio of Vignola, to Which Are Added the Greek Orders (second edition; New York: W. T. Comstock, 1896), by Vignola, ed. by Arthur Lyman Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vignola: an elementary treatise on architecture comprising the complete study of the five orders, with indication of their shadows and the first principles of construction (O., J. H. Jansen, 1923), by Vignola, William Robert Powell, and Pierre Esquié (page images at HathiTrust)
• The five orders of architecture; the casting of shadows and the first principles of construction, based on the system of Vignola. (Bates & Guild co., 1890), by Vignola and Pierre Esquié (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture pratique : qui comprend la construction générale & particuliere des bâtimens; le détail, les toisé & devis de chaque partie; savior, maçonnerie, charpenterie, couverture, menuiserie, serrurerie, vitrerie, plomberie, peinture d'impression, dorure, sculpture, marbrerie, miroiterie, poëlerie, &c. &c. ; avec une explication et une conférence de trente-six articles de la coutume de Paris, sur le titre des servitudes & rapports qui concernent les bâtimens & de l'ordonnance de 1673 (A Paris : Chez les Libraires associés, M.DCC.LXVIII., 1768), by Pierre Bullet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le guide de ceux qui veulent bâtir : ouvrage dans lequel on donne les renseignemens nécessaires pour se conduire lors de la construction, & prévenir les fraudes qui peuvent s'y glisser (L'Auteur ... ; Chez Benoit Morin, Libraire ; A Jombert jeune ..., 1786), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (page images at HathiTrust)
• A key to civil architecture; or, The universal British builder ... To which is added, a treatise of arithmetick ... (Printed for the author, by I. Moore and Co., 1774), by Thomas Skaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectvre de Philibert De L'Orme ... Oeuure entiere contenant vnze liures, augmentée de deux; & autres figures non encore veuës; tant pour desseins qu'ornemens de maison. Avec vne belle invention povr bien bastir, & à petits frais. (Chez David Ferrand, 1648), by Philibert de L'Orme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novvelles inventions povr bien bastir et a petits fraiz (De l'Imprimerie de Hierosme de Marnes, & Guillaume Cauellat, 1576), by Philibert de L'Orme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte y uso de arquitectura (Por D. Placido Barco López, 1796), by Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolás, Plácido Barco López, and Euclid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture pratique : qui comprend la construction générale et particuliere des bâtimens, le détail, les toisé et devis de chaque partie ... : avec une explication et une conférence de trente-six articles de la coutume de Paris, sur le titre des servitudes & rapports qui concernent les bâtimens, & de l'ordonnance de 1673 (Chez Alexandre Jombert jeune, libraire pour l'artillerie & la génie, les mathématiques & l'architecture, 1780), by Pierre Bullet and Alexandre Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geometria famigliare, et instrvttione practica (Per Gio. Pietro Zanni, 1671), by Alessandro Capra and Giovanni Pietro Zanni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novvelles inventions povr bien bastir et a petits fraiz (De l'imprimerie de Federic Morel ..., 1561), by Philibert de L'Orme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Œuures de Philibert de l'Orme (Chez Regnauld Chaudiere ..., 1626), by Philibert de L'Orme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statica degli edifici (Presso Giuseppe Campo, 1781), by Vincenzo Lamberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Builder's magazine (Printed by T. Maiden ... for E. Newbery, Vernor and Hood, and H.D. Symonds, 1800), by John Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maniere de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes (Claude Jombert ... :, 1725), by Pierre Le Muet and Claude Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of sound building, demonstrated in geometrical problems : shewing geometrical lines for all kinds of arches, niches, groins, and twisted rails, both regular and irregular : with several other draughts of buildings and staircases : all curiously engraven on copper plates : wherein are laid down (suited to every capacity) easy practical methods for carpenters, joiners, masons, or bricklayers, to work by (Printed by Sam. Aris for the Author ... [and 9 others], 1725), by William Halfpenny and Benjamin Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopédie contenant une description abregée des principaux arts et metiers, et des instrumens qui leurs sont propres : le tout détaillée par figures avec de nouvelles augmentations. (Chez Crepy rue S. Jacques à S. Pierre près la rue de la Parcheminierie, 1774), by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guélard, Martin Marvie, 18th cent Laury, and Crépy (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Segvnda ynpresion de la primera parte del arte y uso de architetura (Por Bernardo de Hervada, 1667), by Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolás, Bernardo de Hervada, and Euclid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Builder's complete assistant (Printed for I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1790), by Batty Langley, T. Langley, Andrea Palladio, and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della misura delle fabbriche di Giuseppe Antonio Alberti, Bolognese : nel quale si espone la misura delle superficie di tutti i solidi, e di ogni spezie di volte : con un appendice del modo di misurare le vasche i legnaj i fienili i grani, ec., oltre alcune memorie levate dalla storia della Reale Accademia di Parigi attenenti alla misura delle volte e ad estinguere gli incendi a misurare le botti e ad altri generi aderenti alle fabbriche (Firenze : Nella Tipografia di Luigi Pezzati, 1822., 1822), by Giuseppe Antonio Alberti and Baldassarre Orsini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Youth's instructor (Printed for J. Taylor, 1815), by William Pain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traitté des cinq ordres d'architecture dont se sont servi les anciens (Chez Henry Wetstein, 1682), by Andrea Palladio, Henricus Wetstein, and Pierre Le Muet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The carpenters complete instructor in several hundred designs, consisting of domes, trussed roofs, and various cupolas : with the methods of securing them on the roofs for churches, chapels, houses, and other buildings : shewing the most approved manner of lighting stair-cases with various sorts of lanthorns in a new and elegant taste : explaining the manner of piecing beams, or plating, or any sort of bandage for timber spires for churches, &c., truss partitions, framing of flooring, trussing of beams, angle brackets, cornices, coving, form of groins, hips, &c. : to which is annexed, a great variety of timber bridges, of various dimensions (Printed for Robert Sayer ..., 1768), by Abraham Swan and Robert Sayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kupfer-Sammlung zu D. Gilly's Handbuch der Land-Bau-Kunst (Braunschweig : Bei Friedrich Vieweg, [1821?], 1821), by David Gilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le guide de ceux qui veulent batir : ouvrage dans lequel on donne les renseignemens nécessaires pour réussir dans cet art, & prévenir les fraudes qui pourroient s'y glisser ([s.n.], 1781), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'architecture pratique, qui comprend le détail du toisé, & du devis des ouvrages de massonerie, charpenterie, menuiserie, serrurerie, plomberie, vitrerie, ardoise, tuille, pavé de grais & impression, avec vne explication de la covtvme, sur le titre des servitudes & rapports qui regardent les bastimens... (Chez Estienne Michallet, 1691), by Pierre Bullet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture pratique (Didot, fils aîné, 1792), by Pierre Bullet and Charles Séguin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description abregée des principaux arts et metiers et des instrumens qui leurs sont propres, le tout détaillée par figures. (Chez Guélard ... et ches la veuve de P. Fessard ..., 1743), by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guélard, Sébastien Le Clerc, Martin Marvie, and 18th cent Laury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectura civilis, oder, Beschreibung und Vorreissung vieler vornehmer Dachwerck, als hoher Helmen, Creutzdächer, Wiederkehrungen, welscher Hauben, auch Kelter, Fallbrücken : item allerley Pressen, Schnecken oder Windelstiegen und andern dergleichen mechanischen Fabrichen : alles mit höchsten Fleiss zusammen getragen, und der lieben Jugend, sonderlich aber allen Kunstliebhabern der Architectur zu Nutz und Dienst an Tag gegeben (In verlegung Paul Fürstens seel. Wittib und Erben :, 1675), by Johann Wilhelm, Peter Troschel, and Paul Fürstens Witwe und Erben (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anleitung zur bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst (Bey Johann Andreas Pfeffel, Kunstverleger, 1764), by Johann Friedrich Penther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maniere de bastir : pour touttes sortes de personnes (Chez Melchior Tauernier ..., 1623), by Pierre Le Muet, Melchior Tavernier, and Jean Marot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Premier tome de l'architecture (Chez Federic Morel..., 1567), by Philibert de L'Orme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant ... (Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1793), by William Pain and James Pain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities. Wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion. With rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies; with their just measures for the best advantage both of commodiousness, health, strength, and ornament. Also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them. (Printed for Robert Pricke, 1670), by Pierre Le Muet and Robert Pricke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein hundert und vierzig Kupfertafeln zum Praktischen Baubeamten der zweyten verbesserten Auflage vom Jahre 1800 (Gedruckt bey Ignaz Alberti's Witwe, 1800), by Mathias Fortunat Koller and Carl Hermann Pfeiffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building (London : Printed by Cave Pullen ..., 1685), by Nicholas Barbon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Just and legal exceptions against the late act For preventing multiplicity of buldings erected within the suburbs of the City of London, and ten miles thereof, since March 1620. ([London : s.n., 1657?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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