California shown as large island on map of polar projection (bottom center). On banner above map: Nulla dies abeat, quin linea ducta supersit. Another example observed with Johannes Georgio Eberspergerg fecit (below map). Probably cut from a title page of this atlas series. Also issued without banner and with minor changes as center of clock on sheet with text (see Entry 208) Tooley/Mapmakers (Plate, p.309), Tooley/107 (Plate 51). Includes bibliographical references (p. xv-xvi) and indexes. Impensis Homannianorum Heredum. [1762], with changed title and imprint: ATLAS mapparum geographicarum generalium & specialium CENTVM FOLIIS compositum et quotidianis usibus accommodatum accedit Introductio in Geographiam mathematicam, naturalem & historicam. / Homann’s Heirs; Sebast. Dorn sculps. – Norimbergae : Impensis Homannianorum Heredum. Sebast. Dorn Sculps. below the map Glen McLaughlin with Nancy H. Mayo.
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