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Alberti Dureri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi de vrbibus, arcibus, castellísque condendis, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissimae : nunc recens è lingua Germanica in Latinam traductae

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, author, Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574, translator, Wechel, Chrestien, 1495-1554, printer, Burndy Library, donor · 1535 · Parisiis : Ex officina Christiani Wecheli, sub scuto Basiliensi · 6 pictures

Albrecht Dürer's 1535 Latin edition, translated by Joachim Camerarius and printed in Paris by Christian Wechel, is a treatise on laying out and fortifying towns and castles for military use. Its pictures are plan drawings of bastions, street grids and circular fortress layouts, useful to designers wanting early geometric diagrams of defensive city plans.

Fortification · City walls · Military engineering · Fortification -- Early works to 1800 · City walls -- Early works to 1800 · Military engineering -- Early works to 1800

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