HISTORY OF THE MODERN STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE: 2 VOLUMES by Fergusson, James - 1891

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FERGUSSON, James. HISTORY OF THE MODERN STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE. Two volumes London: John Murray, 1891. 8vo. Contemporary quarter morocco, rebacked, with original spine as over-lay. Frontispiece, xxxviii, 314 pages; frontispiece, x 453, (1) pages. Third edition. [Chamberlain, 791.] Fergusson condenses the history of architecture, studying individual European countries, Russia, Turkey, India, and America. Theaters and civil and milita engineering are also studied, with illustrations. Tips bruised, very faint, sporadic foxing, else very good.