After Heinrich Scherer, Likely Reproductions of Two Circa 1700 Maps

Copperplate engravings with color as follows: Navigationes Praecipuae Europaeorum ad Exteras Nationes, showing global sea routes with galleons in each corner (framed 18 x 22-3/4 in.)... plus Religionis Catholicae in America Boreali Disseminatae Representatio Geographica. California is depicted as an island in this map showing the advance of Catholic influence in early America (framed 14-3/4 x 19-3/4 in.).

Private Collection of an Antiquarian, Charlotte, North Carolina

Both maps with vertical folds vertical folds, else pristine.