REPRÆSENTATIO AMERICÆ BOREALIS CVIVS PROVINCÆ VERA FIDE ILLVMINATÆ VMBRAM NON HABENT, RELIQVÆ VMBRIS IMMERSÆ SVNT.

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Description

Type of resource cartographic
Extent 1 map: hand col.; 24.2 x 35.6 cm. including border.
Place Munich
Date created [1703]
Map data [ca.1:36,000,000] ; W 173°00ʹ --W 10°00ʹ/N 84°00ʹ --N 7°10ʹ

Creators/Contributors

Creator Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704

Subjects

Subject California as an island > Maps
Subject North America > Maps
Genre Map
Genre Digital maps
Genre Early maps

Bibliographic information

Note California as large island with nearly flat northern coast and with only 2 place names, S. Iago and S. Bruno. Large vignette (bottom left) shows Christ in a cornfield with 6 followers with sickles.
References Tooley 88 (Plate 60); Leighly 153, UCB.
Statement of responsibility [P. Henrico Scherer].
Note From: Geographia hierar- chica. sive status ecclesiastici Romano-Catholici per orbem universum distributi succincta descriptio historico-geogra- phica. Authore P. Henrico Scherer, Societatis Jesu. Pars II. Sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, Bibliopolæ Academiæ. Monarchii, Typis, Mariæ Magdalenæ Rauchin Viduæ, Anno M.DCCIII. : Atlas Novus exhibens orbem terraqueum per naturæ opera, historiæ novæ ac veteris monumenta, artisque geographicæ leges et præcepta. Hoc est: Geographic universa in septem partes contracta, et instructa ducentis fere chartis geographicis, ac figuris, cujus: Pars II ... Geographia Hierarchica; FOL.K; following FOL. X.O. and [p.]84. 7 parts (pars)published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. Leighly & Tooley give 1720 date for map.
Original McLaughlin Book Number (1995 edition) 162
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/tb712pg3115

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