Abriss der Dreyen gegeneinander Correspondierenden Vestungen Monaco, Capo di Sant Spirito und Niza di Provenza.

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Copper engraving, uncolored as published. Detailed fine antique map by Gabriel Bodenehr depicting Nice in Provence with the nearby fortress Villa Franca and the pricipality of Monaco. A beautiful bird's eye map with engraved buildings, sailing ships in the Ligurian Sea and a compass rose. At the bottom a fine large detailed table of explanations with names of walls, buildings, churches and other landmarks. 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 sucessful publisher for maps and prints in Augsburg in Southern Germany.