Dictionnaire des termes employés dans la construction : et concernant, la connaissance et l'emploi des matériaux, l'outillage qui sert à leur mise en oeuvre, l'utilisation de ces matériaux dans la construction des divers genres d'édifices anciens et modernes, la législation des bâtiments
A French technical dictionary of building terms by Pierre Chabat, published in Paris in 1881 by Ve A. Morel et cie, covering building materials, tools, construction of ancient and modern buildings, and building law for architects and builders. The four pictures are plain line drawings of architectural details: a floor plan of a rectangular structure with a central passage, a wall niche with a column and arched recesses, a wooden ladder fixed against a post, and a vertical section of stacked wooden boards between beams. A designer could take clean hatched-line technique and schematic plan and section conventions from them.
