California as large island with jagged northern coast and interior mountains. No place names except 3 capes: C. Blanc, C. Mendocino, and C. de Pinos. Fretum Anian and Anian to northeast. [P. Henrico Scherer]. Cartouche at lower left surrounded by African animals states: "CVM SVO APPARATV VOLVCRVM PISCIVM ET QVADRVPEDVM A MDCC." From: Geographia natvralis sive fabrica mundi svblvnaris ab artifice et avthore naturæ inventa et elaborata: stylo geographico exhibita. A.P. Henrico Scherer, Societis Jesu. Pars I. Monachii, sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, Bibliopolæ Augustani. Typis, Mariæ Magdalenæ Rauchin Viduæ, Anno M.DCCX. : 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 I ... Geographia Naturalis.; Fol. H.; following [p.]84. 7 parts (pars)published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. Leighly & Tooley give 1720 date for map. Tooley 89, Leighly 154, UCB.
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