Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De vrbibvs, arcibvs, castellisque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot : praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissimae : nunc recens è lingua Germanica in Latinam traductae
Albrecht Dürer's Latin edition of his fortification treatise, printed in Paris in 1535 by Christian Wechel for military engineers and city builders, sets out plans, walls and gun-platform designs for defending towns and castles. The pictures are crisp woodcut plans, elevations and cutaway sections with dense labelled lettering, showing geometric layouts a designer could adapt for maps, diagrams or architectural linework.
