Nova et vera exhibitio..Insularum Marianarum… [A New and True Depiction of the Mariana Islands]. inset: [Guam]

Description

hand-coloured copper engraving.

Map from ‘Atlas Marinus’. Shows Philippines and Marianas, with a large inset of Guam. One of the most attractive of Scherer’s maps of this area, with ships and sea monsters, an outlined Papua New Guinea and Northern Australia – from Borneo till Japan.

Heinrich Scherer, S.J. (1628-1704) was a Jesuit cartographer, geographer, and academic who taught Hebrew, ethics, and mathematics at the University of Dillingen in Germany until about 1680, when he was appointed tutor to the royal princess of Mantua and Bavaria in Munich.