Johann Degler delin. (lower left). Leonhard Heckenauer Sculpsit. (lower right). Title page displays contemporary influence of science, discovery and exploration. Central globe, showing "California" as large island west of "America Boreal", and showing "Australis"(South America), and western part of Africa and Europe, standing on table surrounded by 6 labelled figures: "TOPOGRAPHIA", "HISTORIA [and] GEOGRAPHICA CONSETIAT.", "Ad Regulam et Mensuram Geometrica", "Ad OCVLVM", "Conspiret Calculus.", and "Respondeat Observatio Cœlestis." Above central figure, at page top, is "GEOGRAPHIA ARTIFICIOSA." on ribbon. From: Geographia artificialis. Sive globi terraquei geographice repræsentandi artificium. Authore P. Henrico Scherer, Societatis Jesu. Pars V. 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 V ... Geographia artificialis. 7 parts (pars) published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. Faupel's Americana 98, #14; UCB. [P. Henrico Scherer].
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