JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
(Jean Baptiste) Amedee Couder wrote L’Architecture et l’industrie comme moyen de perfection sociale, which was published in Paris (by Brockhaus et Avenarius) in 1842. (Its actually a fairly scarce book, with only two copies found in the WorldCat directory.) I was surprised by this lovely plan among its slim 52 pages–it reminds me of a snowflake. (See also Snowflakes and Fort Construction, which appeared earlier on this blog, here.)
Projet d’un palais des Arts et de l’industrie. 18×14 inches.
[(Please not that the image below is from http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530065524–I’ve used their digital image rather than my own because my copy is folded in quarters and is too large and too-attached-to-the-book to get a decent image of it.]