AGSL GeoDiscovery

[Pacific Ocean]

Description:

California with indented northern coast. Map in reverse.

"INSVLA CALIFORNIA" AND "MARE VERMEIO" on map left and "IAPONIA","TARTARIA", "CHINENSIS" and "CHINA" on map right. Shows interior mountains on California and Fortunæ, C. Blanco and C. Mendocino & Arboledo.

Globe, Fig.II, near page center, also with mapping in reverse.

Above globe, American and Asian figures hold large ruler marked in "Leucæ Germanicæ". Map lower left gives distance measurements in Levcæ Germanicæ Commvnes, Levcæ Gallicæ and Milliaria Italica.

From: Geographia politica. Sive historia geographica exhibens totius orbis terraquei status et regimen politicum cum adjectis potissimarum nationum, regnorum ac provinciarum geniis et typis geographicis, Authore P. Henrico Scherer, Societatis Jesu. Pars IV. 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 IV ... Geographia politica; FOL. I.D. Fig. I.; following [p.] 808. 7 parts (pars) published 1702-10; reissued 1730-37.

UCB.

[P. Henrico Scherer].

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/zq083qg2931

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/zq083qg2931 and 159

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

California as an island--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.

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