California as an island with interior mountains, named capes and small islands, and 3 southern towns: S. Iago, S. Bruno, N.S. de Guadalupe. FRETVM ANIAN, ANIAN and OCEANVS to north. [P. Henrico Scherer]. Milliaria (distance measurement) in Germanica, Gallica, and Italica. From: Geographia politica. Sive historia geographica exhibens totius orbis terraquei status et regimen politicum cum adjectis potissimarum nationum, regnorum ac provinciarum geniis et typis geographicis, Authore P. Henrico Scherer, Societatis Jesu. Pars IV. 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 IV ... Geographia politica; following [p.] 808 and Fol.I.D. Fig.I and Fol.D and Fol.Z.Z. 7 parts (pars) published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. Leighly & Tooley give 1720 date for map. Also in: Tabellæ geographicæ... : Atlas Novus, Pars VI, following [p.]272. Tooley 85, Leighly 150, UCB.
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