A very attractive rare map illustrating central Africa and the source of the Nile in the large lakes to the south called ‘Zaflan’ and ‘Zembre’. The Zembre is also entitled the ‘Lac Zaire seu Dambea’ which is similarly shown to be the source of the Congo and Niger Rivers and another branch of the Nile which is detailed in a inset map top left. “In 1702-03 Heinrich Scherer published the first six parts of his ‘Atlas Novus’; the seventh and last part was issued in 1710. Scherer was a professor of mathematics in Munich and in this work published one of the first thematic atlases … As a Jesuit, Scherer concentrated on the spread of missions around the world … The frontispieces to the atlas are the work of Johann Degler and are engraved by either Leonard Hecknauer, Joseph à Montalegre or Matthäus Wolffgang. Shirley identifies the similar style of the maps and their vignettes. Bagrow, however, believed the maps were the engraved work of Johann Baptiste Homann” (Burden). Bagrow (1951) p. 364; refer Burden (2007) no. 755; Phillips (1909-) nos. 3457-62 & 3471; refer Shirley (1984) no. 626; Shirley (2004) T.Sher-1a no. 166.