Allgemeine Baukonstruktionslehre : mit besonderer Beziehung auf das Hochbauwesen ; ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen und zum Selbstunterricht
A German building-construction handbook by Gustav Adolf Breymann, with later revisions by Heinrich Lang, Otto Warth and Otto Königer, published in Leipzig in 1885 for lecture courses and self-study by architecture students. Its plates are technical engineering drawings: elevations, plans and cross-sections of a tall vertical structure with a base, a boiler-like chamber, a sluice-style gate and a tapering pillar with a cap. A designer might take from them the precise line-work of mechanical diagrams and the clean, hatched sectional style of nineteenth-century technical plates.
