Practische bürgerliche Baukunst : mit den Haupt- und Specialrissen und Gesimslehren, zum gemeinnützlichen Gebrauch für Bauliebhaber, Zimmerleute, Maurer, Tischler &c.
A practical German architecture manual of 1773 published in Nuremberg by Christian Gotthold Hauffe, written by Johann David Steingruber for builders, carpenters, masons and joiners as well as amateur builders. Its engraved plates show a building elevation with floor plan, column and pedestal profiles, a stepped pipe-like layout of joined members, and a sectional view of a doorway with a balcony and cornice. A designer could draw on the clean hatched line work and the rigorous plan-and-elevation layouts for architectural diagrams.
