Abriss der Vorlesungen über Baukunst, gehalten an der Königlichen Polytechnischen Schule zu Paris
This is a German-language architectural lecture digest by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, published in 1831 in Freiburg by Herder's art and book trade, based on his courses at the Paris Ecole Polytechnique for architecture students. The plates are measured plans and elevations of buildings, laid out as comparative diagrams. A designer could draw on their strict grid logic: repeated bays, symmetrical axes, and the reduction of complex buildings to clean line plans.
