L'Art de lever les plans : et nouveau traite de l'arpentage et du nivellement, dans lequel on enseigne des methodes courtes et faciles pour arpenter et calculer toutes sortes de surfaces : suivi d'un traite sur les solides, et d'un traite du lavis
A surveying manual by J. B. Taviel de Mastaing, published in Dijon in 1838, aimed at land surveyors and students learning to measure and calculate areas, with a later treatise on solids and brush drawing. Its plates are dense line diagrams of polygons, triangles, and survey plans with lettered vertices, dashed sightlines, and fig. numbers. A designer might take the clean geometric layouts, the precise lettering, and the diagrammatic structure for technical or schematic graphics.
