Nova et vera exhibitio..Insularum Marianarum… 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. RARE