Pratique de la guerre : contenant l'vsage de l'artillerie, bombes et mortiers, feux artificiels & petards, sappes & mines, ponts & pontons, tranchées & trauaux, auec l'ordre des assauts aux breches : ensemble vn traité des feux de joye
A 1650 Paris military treatise by Francis Malthus, issued by publisher Gervais Clousier, covering artillery, bombs, mortars, fireworks, petards, mines and siege assaults, written for soldiers and engineers. Its engraved plates show cannon firing from fortified walls, a cutaway of a bomb fuze assembly, and a mortar lobbing a shell over stacked gabions, giving designers examples of dense, labelled line-engraving diagrams with numbered callouts.
