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RELIGIONIS CATHOLICÆ IN AMERICA BOREALI DISSEMINATÆ REPRÆ SENTATIO GEOGRAPHICA

Description:

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.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/yj146nx5505

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/yj146nx5505 and 161

Creator:

Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704.

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

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

Theme:

Imagery

Rights:

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.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

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