Handbuch der Waffenkunde: das Waffenwesen in seiner historischen Entwicklung vom Beginn des Mittelalters bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts
Wendelin Boeheim's 1890 German handbook on arms and armour traces European weaponry from the early Middle Ages to the late 18th century, drawn from Heidelberg University Library's holdings and written for scholars and collectors of historical arms. The pictures are black-and-white pen and hatching engravings of individual pieces of plate armour, including a bevor-like gorget, a cuirass, a visored helmet, and a rerebrace with a rondel, each drawn with dense cross-hatching to show the curve and rivets of the metal. A designer could borrow the hatched line work and the close-up, object-isolated framing for medieval or fantasy armour concepts.
