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Fortification nouvelle, ou recueil de différentes manières de fortifier en Europe

Pfeffinger, Johann Friedrich · 1740 · chez Antoine Dole · 19 pictures

Fortification nouvelle is a French treatise on military engineering by Johann Friedrich Pfeffinger, published in 1740 by Antoine Dole for officers and engineers studying how to fortify towns. Its plates show plans of bastioned star forts, earthwork profiles, palisades, gates and blockhouses, and pentagonal layouts drawn with fine ruled hatching and numbered keys, offering a designer clean geometric diagrams, dense grid patterns and crisp architectural line work.

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