California as large island with jagged northern coast, interior mountains and no place names. Fretum Anian to northeast. Various types of missions are labelled and explained (lower right). Title cartouche (upper right) with figure of Jesus on the cross and persons from around the world kneeling before him. 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.X.O.; following [p.]84. 7 parts (pars)published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. Leighly & Tooley give 1720 date for map. [P. Henrico Scherer]. Tooley 87; Leighly 152, UCB.
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