Here are some books, as promised earlier.

Das Holzbau-Buch by Adolf Opderbecke.
Google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=FAI0i7h...p;q&f=false

Das Zimmermannsbuch by Theodor Krauth and Franz Sales Meyer, 1895

Both are in German. Look them up on Amazon.de and you will be shown many other related books

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