Traité de l'architecture militaire, qui enseigne la construction de tous les ouvrages de fortification : avec des remarques sur les manières des fortifier des auteurs les plus célèbres, & les moiens d'en éviter les défauts dans les nouvelles fortifications
A French treatise on military architecture by P. P. A. Bardet de Villeneuve, published in 1741 by Jean van Duren, written as a practical guide for engineers and builders of fortifications. Its engraved plates show star-shaped bastioned fortress plans drawn from above, with ground plans, bastions, ramparts and ditches labelled with lettered keys and scale bars. A designer could take from them the geometric clarity of radiating star forms and the precise hatched shading that conveys raised earthwork and depth.
