Copper engraving published in Allain M. Mallet's description of the world 'Description De L' Univers, Contenant Les Differents Systemes Du Monde, Les Cartes generales & particulieres ...'. French text edition with additional German titles on top. A beautiful bird´s eye view towards the city of Preßburg, the capital of Slovakia. Detailed engraved with many houses, churches, mountains, trees, peoples, etc.

Original antique copper engraving, uncolored as published. Decorative panoramic view of the slovak city Pressburg. This fine engraving was published in Gabriel Bodenehr's famous serious "Europeans Macht und Pracht", a series of engravings depicting city views, plans, fortresses and castles in Europe. Many plates often are showing fortifications in Hungary and Southeast Europe, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Germany. Gabriel Bodenehr was during this period a successful publisher for maps and prints in Augsburg in Southern Germany. Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder (1664-1758 or 1673-1765) was a German map maker and member of a famous engraver and publisher family of Augsburg. His main work was "Atlas Curieux" first published 1704. He was the son of Johann Georg Bodenehr (1631-1703). Gabriel's son was Gabriel Bodenehr the Younger (1705–1792).

Original copper engraving, hand colored in wash, published 1617 in the townbook 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' by Braun and Hogenberg. The entire series of the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' comprised six volumes and was published and printed from 1572 towards 1619. A beautiful town view from Preßburg (today Bratislava the capital city of Slovakia) over the Danube, on the hill is the Bratislava Castle and vineyards in the background.

Steel engraving, uncolored as published. A beautiful fine engraved city view of Pressburg with the river Danube in the foreground.

Copper engraving, handcolored in outline and wash when published. Course of the river Danube printed from three plates; published by Matthäus Seutter around 1720 in Augsburg. This antique map is depicting the course of the Danube from the source to the estuary in the Black Sea, the copper engraving consists of three separate plates combined together to display the complete large map of the river Danube. With many place names and details like streets, woods, mountains, rivers, lakes etc. In the upper right corner with a large decorative allegoric title cartouche. In the lower left corner a mileage scale, below with a table of explanations, further with a small inset map showing the area of the source of the river Danube. Old colored as published, the three plates joined together partially with small creases or minor losses. Matthäus Seutter (September 20, 1678 – March 1757) was one of the most important and prolific German map publishers of the 18th century. Seutter started his career as an apprentice brewer. Apparently uninspired by the beer business, Seutter left his apprenticeship and moved to Nuremberg where he apprenticed as an engraver under the tutelage of the prominent J. B. Homann. Sometime in the early 18th century Seutter left Homann to establish his own independent cartographic publishing firm in Augsburg. Though he struggled in the early years of his independence, Seutter's engraving skill and commitment to diversified map production eventually gained him a substantial following. Most of Seutter's maps were heavily based upon, if not copies of, earlier work done by the Homann and Delisle firms.[citation needed] By 1732 Seutter was one of the most prolific publishers of his time and was honored by the German Emperor Charles VI with the title of,Imperial Geographer'. Seutter continued to publish until his death, at the height of his career, in 1757. The Seutter firm continued under Seutter's wastrel son Albrecht Carl until his death in 1762. Following Albrecht's death, the firm was divided between the established Probst firm and the emerging firm of Tobias Conrad Lotter. Lotter, Matthäus Seutter's son in law, was a master engraver and worked on behalf of the Seutter firm. Lotter would eventually become one of the most prominent cartographers of his day.