Besondere und geheime Kriegs-Nachrichten des Fürsten Raymundi Montecuculi ... worinnen die Anfangs-Gründe der Kriegs-Kunst sehr deutlich beschrieben sind
A military treatise by Raimondo Montecuccoli, published in Germany in 1736 by the Weidmann bookshop, setting out the basic principles of the art of war for a military readership. The pages are rotated and show battle-order diagrams of square blocks marking infantry and cavalry formations beside small engraved scenes of mounted soldiers, pikemen and a regiment advancing across open ground. A designer could take from them the clean geometry of tactical grids and the tidy hatched-block style of early eighteenth-century military plates.
