California as large island with jagged northern coast, interior mountains and 2 place names: S. Bruno and N.S. de Guadalupe. Fretvm Anian and Anian to north. UCB. [P. Henrico Scherer]. Title within rectangular area (upper right) labelled "B.V. MEXICANA" and depicting a Native looking toward God. Milliaria (distance measurement) in German, Gallica, and Italian are given. From: Atlas marianvs sive præcipuæ totius orbis habitati imagines et statuæ magnæ deimatris beneficciis ac prodigiis inclytæ succincta historia propositæ. Et mappis geographicis expressæ. Authore P. Henrico Scherer, Societatis Jesu Sacerdote. Pars III. Sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, Bibliopolæ Academiæ Dilinganæ. Monachii, Typis, Mariæ Magdalenæ Rauchin Viduæ, Anno M.DCCII : 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 III ... Atlas Marianvs; following [p.]10. 7 parts (pars)published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37.
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