Cumnecdum Stella Hæc exorta fuißet Olympo; At postquam SOLest ingreß' VIRGINIS Astrum, Naufrag' in medys constitit Orbis aquis: Interitum mundo flamma nec vnda dedit. Ignis de coelo maledictas perdidit vrbes, Temperat influxus Hæc stella benigna malignos; Cumnecdum SOLEM prodroma Virgo dedit: Felix sub tali Sidere nata DOMUS. [Munich, 1702] - UC Berkeley GeoData
Cumnecdum Stella Hæc exorta fuißet Olympo; At postquam SOLest ingreß' VIRGINIS Astrum, Naufrag' in medys constitit Orbis aquis: Interitum mundo flamma nec vnda dedit. Ignis de coelo maledictas perdidit vrbes, Temperat influxus Hæc stella benigna malignos; Cumnecdum SOLEM prodroma Virgo dedit: Felix sub tali Sidere nata DOMUS. [Munich, 1702]
Signs of the zodiac surround polar view of the world, with California as large, mountainous island near top. UCB. Crowned lion center bottom, and angel at center top. Iohannes Degler Delineavit. (lower left). Ioseph à Montalegre sculpsit; Norimberg (lower right). Title on draped cloth along top above map. 3 additional lines of text on draped cloth: Et Gladio atque Pedo Mari+ anuan fustinet Orbem et Pietate fua. (lower left); Non gravat Hos Humeros, fitquamvis integer Orbis. (lower right); Alcidæ fucceßit ATLAS LEO BOIUS Atlanti (bottom center). Issued in: 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. [P. Henrico Scherer].
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