Displaying 34 of 34 results for author "Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844"
A treatise on the construction of stair-cases and hand-rails ...
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London : for J. Taylor, 1820.
1820
1 item
Call number | VEN (Nicholson, P. Treatise on the construction of staircases and handrails) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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The builder's and workman's new director: comprising explanations of the general principles of architecture... by Peter Nicholson ...
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London, A. Fullarton and Co., 1856.
1856
1 item
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Call number | VEC+ (Nicholson, P. Builder's and workman's new director) |
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The new and improved practical builder.
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London : Thomas Kelly, 1837.
1837
3 items
Call number | VEC (Nicholson, P. New and improved practical builder and workman's companion) v. 3 |
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Call number | VEC (Nicholson, P. New and improved practical builder and workman's companion) v. 2 |
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Call number | VEC (Nicholson, P. New and improved practical builder and workman's companion) v. 1 |
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A practical treatise on the art of masonry and stone-cutting: containing the construction of profiles of arches... and Gothic ceilings. Each article being preceded by the requisite information in plane and solid geometry: illustrated by numerous diagrams on 43 plates.
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London, J. Taylor, 1832.
1832
1 item
Call number | VEO (Nicholson, P. Practical treatise on the art of masonry) |
Item location | Offsite |
The carpenter's new guide: a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery ... including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber, by Peter Nicholson ... the whole being carefully and thoroughly revised by N. K. Davis, and containing numerous new, improved, and original designs for roofs, domes, etc., by Samuel Sloan ...
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Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867.
1867
1 item
Call number | VEN (Nicholson, P. Carpenter's new guide. Philadelphia, 1867) |
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Nicholson's New carpenter's guide : being a complete book of lines for carpenters, joiners, cabinet-makers, and workmen in general.
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London ; New York : G. Virtue, [18--?]
18
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Call number | VEN (Nicholson, P. Carpenter's new guide. London, 18--) |
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Practical carpentry, joinery, and cabinet-making; being a new and complete system of lines, for the use of workmen: founded on accurate geometrical and mechanical principles, with their application in carpentry, to roofs, domes, centring, &c.; in joinery, to stairs, hand-rails, soffits, niches, &c.; and in cabinet-making, to furniture, both plain and ornamental; fully and clearly explained.
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London, T. Kelly by J. Rider, 1826.
1826
1 item
Call number | VEN (Practical carpentry, joinery, and cabinet-making) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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The guide to railway masonry, containing a complete treatise on the oblique arch with an appendix.
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London, Spon, 1860.
1860
1 item
Call number | VEK (Nicholson, P. Guide to railway masonry) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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The practical cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator. With numerous illustrative engravings.
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London, H. Fisher, Son, & Co. [1826]
1826
1 item
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Call number | MOI (Nicholson, P. Practical cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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Principles of architecture; comprising fundamental rules of the art, with their application to practice: also rules for shadows for the five orders. By Peter Nicholson.
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London, H. G. Bohn, 1848.
1848
1 item
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Call number | 3-MQD (Nicholson, P. Principles of architecture) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
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Encyclopedia of architecture. A dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, carpentry, etc., from the earliest ages to the present time, forming a comprehensive work of reference for the use of architects, builders, carpenters, masons, engineers, students, professional men, and amateurs. By Peter Nicholson ... Edited by Edward Lomax and Thomas Gunyon ... Illustrated with two hundred and thirty engravings on steel, mostly from working drawings in detail.
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New York, Martin and Johnson [185-?]
1850
2 items
Call number | 3-MQC+ (Nicholson, P. Encyclopedia of architecture) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
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Call number | 3-MQC+ (Nicholson, P. Encyclopedia of architecture) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
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The student's instructor in drawing and working the five orders of architecture : fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings, for diminishing and gluing of columns and capitals, for finding the true diameter of an order to any given height, for striking the ionic volute, circular or elliptical, with finished examples, on a large scale, of the orders, their planceers, etc. and some designs for door-cases, elegantly engraved on forty-one plates--with explanations / by Peter Nicholson.
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New York : At the office of the Railroad journal, 1837.
1837
1 item
Call number | *C p.v. 241 |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Encyclopedia of architecture : being a new and improved edition of Nicholson's Dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, etc. / edited by Edward Lomax and Thomas Gunyon.
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London : Caxton Press, 1852?
1852
2 items
Call number | MQC (Nicholson, P. Encyclopedia of architecture) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
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Call number | MQC (Nicholson, P. Encyclopedia of architecture) |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
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The new carpenters' guide, [electronic resource] : being a complete book for lines of carpentry, &c. on methods entirely new; founded on geometrical principles, Wherein the Utility of every Line will be fully exemplified by Practice. By P. Nicholson.
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London : printed for, and sold by the author, No. 62, Berwick-Street, Oxford-Street; sold also by Messrs. Taylor, No. 56, Holborn, MDCCXCII.
1792
1 resource
The carpenter's new guide [electronic resource] : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaister Groins, Niches of every Description, Sky-Lights, Lines for Roofs and Domes, with a great Variety of Designs for Roofs, Trussed Girders, Floors, Domes, Bridges, &c.;-Stair-Cases and Hand-Rails of various Constructions; Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, &c.; and Raking Mouldings; with many other Things entirely new. The whole founded on true geometrical principles; the Theory and Practice well explained, and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author. Including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber. By Peter Nicholson.
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London : printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 56, High Holborn, MDCCXCIII. [1793]
1793
1 resource
The carpenter and joiner's assistant [electronic resource] : containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together; For Hanging Of AtDoors ON Straight OR Circular Plans; For fitting up Windows and Shutters to answer various Purposes, With Rules For Hanging Them: For the Construction of Floors, Partitions, Soffits, Groins, Arches for Masonny; for constructing Roofs in the best Manner from a given Quantity of Timber: For placing of Bond Timbers, with various Methods for adjusting Raking Pediments, enlarging and diminishing of Mouldings; taking Dimensions for Joinery, and for setting out Shop Fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for Stairs having a Conical Well-Hole, &c. &c. To Which Are Added, Examples Of AtVarious Roofs Exectued, With The Scantlings, From Actual Measurements. With Rules for Mortices and Tenons, and for fixing Iron Straps, &c. Also Extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. On the Strength Of AtTimber, with Practical Observations. Illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations. By Peter Nicholson, Author Of At The Carpenter's New Guide, &c.
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London : printed for I. and J. Taylor, At The Architectural Library, Opposite Great-Turnstile, Holborn, 1797.
1797
1 resource
The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry ... with a great variety of designs ... / by Peter Nicholson ; additional plans for various stair-cases by William Johnston.
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Philadelphia : Grigg, Elliot, 1848.
1848
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The carpenter's new guide : a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry ... containing a great variety of original designs ... / by Peter Nicholson ; the whole being carefully and thoroughly revised by N.K. Davis ; containing numerous new, improved, and original designs for roofs, domes, etc. by Samuel Sloan.
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Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo, 1854.
1854
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Encyclopedia of architecture : a dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, carpentry, etc. ... / by Peter Nicholson ; edited by Edward Lomax and Thomas Gunyon.
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New York : Johnson, Fry, [between 1850 and 1859?]
185
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The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry ... with a great variety of designs ... the whole founded on true geometrical principles ... / by Peter Nicholson.
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Philadelphia : John Grigg, 1827.
1827
1 item
Call number | F 9667 reel 62 |
Item location | Off-site |
The mechanic's companion, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry ... containing a full description of the tools ... and ... terms used in each art / by Peter Nicholson.
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New York : W.C. Borradaile, 1831.
1831
1 item
Call number | F 9667 reel 63 v.1-2 |
Item location | Off-site |
The student's instructor in drawing and working the five orders of architecture : fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings ... / by Peter Nicholson.
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New York : Railroad Journal, 1837.
1837
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Analytical and arithmetical essays.
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L., 1821.
1821
1 item
Call number | Math 188.1 |
Item location | Off-site |
The mechanic's companion, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning. And an explanation of the terms used in each art; also an introduction to practical geometry. By Peter Nicholson.
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Philadelphia, J. Locken, 1845.
1845
1 item
Call number | Eng 608.42.5 |
Item location | Off-site |
The guide to railway masonry : containing a complete treatise on the oblique arch, in four parts, with an appendix / by Peter Nicholson, revised and corrected throughout by R. Cowen.
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London : E. & F.N. Spon, 1860.
1860
1 item
Call number | KF 204 |
Item location | Off-site |
A treatise on the construction of stair-cases and hand-rails: showing plans and elevations of the various forms of stairs; methods of projecting the twist and scroll of the hand-rail; an expeditious method of squaring the rail; general methods of describing the scroll and forming it out of the solid: with a new method of applying the face mould to the plank without bevelling the edge. Preceded by some necessary problems in practical geometry; with the sections and coverings of prismatic solids. Illustrated by thirty-nine plates. By Peter Nicholson ...
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London, M. Taylor, 1847.
1847
1 item
Call number | Eng 688.47 |
Item location | Off-site |
The builder's and workman's new director, comprising explanatins of the general principles of architecture,of the practice of building,and of the several mechanical arts connected therewith. Also the elements and practice of geometry in its application to the building art.
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London,etc., A.Fullarton and Co., 1853.
1853
1 item
Call number | KH 71 |
Item location | Off-site |
The carpenter's new guide; a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on soffits, groins, niches, etc. Revised by N. K. Davis, and containing numerous new and original disigns by Samuel Sloan.
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Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & company, 1865 [cop.1853].
1965
1 item
Call number | Eng 688.65 |
Item location | Off-site |
Practical masonry, bricklaying and plastering, both plain and ornamental; containing a new and complete system of lines for stone-cutting. For the use of workmen.
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London, T. Kelly, 1838.
1838
1 item
Call number | Eng 628.38 |
Item location | Off-site |
A practical system of algebra, designed for the use of schools and private students, by Peter Nicholson and J.Rowbotham.
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London, Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, 1831.
1831
1 item
Call number | KD 45814 |
Item location | Off-site |
The student's instructor in drawing and working the five orders of architecture.
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London, printed for M.Taylor, [18- ]
1800
1 item
Call number | KF 3993 |
Item location | Off-site |
The mechanic's companion, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning, comprehending the latest improvements and containing a full description of the tools belonging to each branch of business: with copious directions for their use: and an explanation of the terms used in each art : also an introduction to practical geometry / by Peter Nicholson.
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Philadelphia : Published by John Loken, 1842.
1842
1 item
Call number | 9108.676 |
Item location | Off-site |