La fortification du sieur Antoine de Ville ou l'ingenieur parfait ...
Antoine de Ville's 1672 treatise on fortification, printed in France for military engineers and officers, presents siege and defence methods through numbered plates. The pictures are dense black-and-white engravings of star-shaped bastion plans, trench zigzags, gabions, and fortified walls drawn in plan and elevation with lettered keys, offering a designer ideas for geometric layouts, hatched linework, and diagrammatic plate compositions.
