I would like to share with you this inspiring discovery. It's in german but don't worry, the 1860's classic Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon: Geschichte der Baukuns is a gift for aesthetic pleasure. The book gathers, in detailed images, a vision of world history of architecture interpreted from nineteenth-century Europe.
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It's public and you can download it from here (http://www.archive.org/details/bilderatlaszumco00heck)