Samuelis liberi baronis de Pufendorf De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem : elegantissimis tabulis aeneis exornati, cum triplici indice
A 1696 Nuremberg edition of Samuel Pufendorf's seven-book history of Charles X Gustav of Sweden, printed for the publisher Christoph Riegel and illustrated with engraved copper plates for a learned readership. The pictures are folding-width battle plans and city views, with fortified towns, siege lines, and troop formations drawn in fine line engraving with decorative cartouches and framing borders. A designer could take from them the dense, schematic aesthetic of early modern military cartography, with its tiny crowded figures, banners, and hatched terrain.
