A nice pair of maps on one sheet, engraved in Scherer's typical, bold style. North America features California as an island and Fretum Anian with Compaigne Land appearing in the Pacific. South America has a very unusual delineation of Tierra del Fuego. The interiors of both maps are filled with mountains ranges and rivers, but not many place names. Heinrich Scherer, professor of mathematics at Munich, was a devout Jesuit. Many of the maps and plates in his atlas emphasize the Catholic hierarchy and the spread of Jesuit missions throughout the world.

References: McLaughlin #157.

Condition: A

A crisp impression on a bright sheet. There is a single tiny wormhole in the right blank margin.