California as an island with flat northern coast sloping southeast. Volcano pictured near northern end. Double dotted lines connecting two symbols for a vortex drawn across island just below volcano. Map is decorated with faced quarter moon at top center, black clouds around henispheres, and symbolic figures representing the winds blowing from each of the four corners. Neurautter excudit (lower right, below border). Situan inventio Ao. 1723. (lower center, above title and within symbol key). Issued in his: Mare philosophicum Thalassophilis ad perscrutandum propositum, seu universa philosophia Aristotelico-Neutristica. -- [Prague] : Wolffgang Wickhart, 1724. Vilkum, F. X., Hydrografie..., in Kralovska ceska spalecnost nauk (Prague, 1944). [Honorio Czechura].
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