[ARCHITECTURE]. ASHER, Benjamin (1773?1845). The Country Bu...

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  [ARCHITECTURE]. ASHER, Benjamin (1773?1845). The Country Builder?s Assistant. Greenfield, MA: by John Denio, 1805. 8vo. 35 (of 37) plates including several folding (frontispiece and plate No. 16 supplied in facsimile). Handsomely rebound in mottled calf, renewed endpapers (occasional offsetting and marginal browning). Fourth edition and the last edition of the ?earliest original American work on architecture?. Hitchcock 114. ?? [Together with:] MINIFIE, William. A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing? Baltimore: published by the author, 1849. 8vo. Frontispiece, 48 engraved plates, publisher?s ads at rear (title and frontispiece foxed, occasional spotting). Full original sheepskin, black leather lettering?piece gilt (extreme edges rubbed, spine label chipped). Abridged edition published in the same year as the first edition.
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