Home building : a reliable book of facts, relative to building, living, materials, costs, at about 400 places from New York to San Francisco /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
[E.C. Hussey],
[1875]
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| Series: | Making of the modern world. Part 2 (1851-1914)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Includes indexes. Publisher's advertising: pages 392-416, 3rd count. Reproduction from the The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London. Errata slip mounted to copyright page corrects date of copyright from 1876 to 1875. Plates of model homes and other buildings faced with unnumbered leaves of descriptive letterpress. "Containing 42 plates and 45 original designs of buildings, with short descriptive specifications. Also with extended and elaborated specifications of materials and labor, merchandise, and where it may be procured. Tables of costs of materials at about 400 places from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Descriptions and statistics, for 1876, of over 250 cities, towns and hamlets. How to reach them, their hotels, populations, healthfulness, industries, institutions, churches, newspapers, lots, farms near and values, advantages and prospects. Places of resort for health noted. Many illustrations and practical, useful suggestions." Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii pages, 42 unnumbered leaves, pages 197-416, 42 leaves of plates) : illustrations. |