California as an island with jagged northern coast, interior mountains, and no place names. To north are Fretu ANIAN and Compagine Land. Maps also labelled Fig.II and Fig. VI, respectively. Figs.I,III,IV,and V are small diagrams showing projections. 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; FOL.T., following [p.]218. 7 parts (pars) published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. [P. Henrico Scherer]. None found.
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