REPRÆSENTATIO AMERICÆ BOREALIS CVIVS PROVINCÆ VERA FIDE ILLVMINATÆ VMBRAM NON HABENT, RELIQVÆ VMBRIS IMMERSÆ SVNT

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California as large island with nearly flat northern coast and with only 2 place names, S. Iago and S. Bruno. Large vignette (bottom left) shows Christ in a cornfield with 6 followers with sickles. Tooley 88 (Plate 60); Leighly 153, UCB. [P. Henrico Scherer]. From: Geographia hierar- chica. sive status ecclesiastici Romano-Catholici per orbem universum distributi succincta descriptio historico-geogra- phica. Authore P. Henrico Scherer, Societatis Jesu. Pars II. 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 II ... Geographia Hierarchica; FOL.K; following FOL. X.O. and [p.]84. 7 parts (pars)published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. Leighly & Tooley give 1720 date for map.

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Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704

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Stanford

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Maps

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California as an island--Maps and North America--Maps

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Imagery

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