A Book on Building, Civil and Ecclesiastical: With the Theory of Domes, and of the Great Pyramid; and a Catalogue of Sizes of Churches and Other Large Buildings |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Book on Building, Civil and Ecclesiastical: With the Theory of Domes, and of the Great Pyramid; and a Catalogue of Sizes of Churches and Other Large Buildings |
| Author | Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe |
| Publisher | Crosby, Lockwood, and Company, 1876 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 2 May 2006 |
| Length | 362 pages |
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