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Handsome Set of Globe Gores
World Map.
SCHERER, Heinrich [Munich, 1700]
Typus Totius Orbis Terraquei Geographice Delineatus.
8 ½ x 13 ¾ inches
Fine hand color; excellent condition
A finely colored set of 12 gores for a terrestrial globe. It shows Australia in some detail, a fragmentary delineation of New Zealand, and an oddly oversized Tierra del Fuego. California is still represented as an island, and there is little detail of the Arctic.
Scherer’s Atlas Novus consisted of eight volumes, 187 plates, and was published between 1702 and 1710. The work was considered innovative in its combination of highly decorative Catholic iconography and largely accurate cartography. The Jesuit, Scherer, charted the revival and spread of the Catholic faith in the late 16th and 17th century. Scherer held various positions in the field of education from Professor of Hebrew and Mathematics at the University of Dillingen to the official house tutor of the Royal Princes of Mantua and Bavaria. Each map is richly adorned with cartouches that consist of celestial beings, sea monsters, and even ships bearing Jesuit priests sailing to their various destinations around the world.
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