De l'utilité des places de guerre
Published in 1777 by Marc René de Montalembert, this French military treatise on fortification was printed by the Cercle Social press for engineers and officers. Its engraved plates show star-shaped bastioned fortress plans, with angled ramparts, moats, and cross-sections of gun emplacements drawn in fine parallel hatching that offers a designer a precise model for geometric, radiating layouts.
