Description de ce qui a été pratiqué pour fondre en bronze d'un seul jet la figure equestre de Louis XIV, elevée par la ville de Paris dans la place de Louis Le Grand en mil six cens quatre-vingt-dix-neuf : = Descriptio omnium operarum quibus ad fundendam ex aere una emissione metalli Ludovici Decimi-quarti statuam equestrem, quae a civitatis Parisiensis magistratibus in Ludovici Magni platea erecta fuit perventum est : ouvrage françois et latin, enrichi de planches en taille-douce
Germain Boffrand's 1743 French and Latin treatise, published in Paris by Guillaume Cavalier, describes how the equestrian statue of Louis XIV was cast in bronze in one pour for the Place Louis-le-Grand. Its copperplate engravings are technical plans of the mould and casting pit, drawn as plan views with hatched earth, grid-like armatures and channels, useful for a designer seeking early modern industrial diagrams with dense crosshatching and strong geometric layout.
