A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages:: Including Words Used by Ancient and Modern Authors in Treating of Architectural and Other Antiquities: with Etymology, Definition, Description, and Historical Elucidation: Also, Biographical Notices of Ancient Architects

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Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the author, Burton Street., 1838 - 498 стор.
 

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