IDEA NATVRALIS AMERICÆ BOREALIS DIGITO DEI FORMATA GEOGRAPHICE PROPOSITA AN MDCC

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California as large island with jagged northern coast and interior mountains. No place names except 3 capes: C. Blanc, C. Mendocino, and C. de Pinos. Fretum Anian and Anian to northeast. [P. Henrico Scherer]. Cartouche at lower left surrounded by African animals states: "CVM SVO APPARATV VOLVCRVM PISCIVM ET QVADRVPEDVM A MDCC." From: Geographia natvralis sive fabrica mundi svblvnaris ab artifice et avthore naturæ inventa et elaborata: stylo geographico exhibita. A.P. Henrico Scherer, Societis Jesu. Pars I. Monachii, sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, Bibliopolæ Augustani. Typis, Mariæ Magdalenæ Rauchin Viduæ, Anno M.DCCX. : 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 I ... Geographia Naturalis.; Fol. H.; following [p.]84. 7 parts (pars)published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37. Leighly & Tooley give 1720 date for map. Tooley 89, Leighly 154, UCB.

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https://purl.stanford.edu/sp153gq7179 and 140

Creator:

Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704

Publisher:

Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704

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Stanford

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Maps

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Digital maps

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

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Imagery

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Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

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