Camden - Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, 1607 - Old books for sale

Author: Camden, William

Publisher: Bishop, George and Norton, John

Published: London

Publishing year: 1607

Camden, William. Britannia. First edition with county maps. "Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et Insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica Descriptio: Nunc postremo recognita, plurimis locis magna acessione adauct, & Chartis chorographicis illustrata ...". London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1607. Folio. (16), 860, (24) pp. (with the usual irregularities in pagination) with full-page engraved title / frontispiece ('Britannia' - map of Great Britain in allegorical border), 57 engraved maps, 8 full-page engraved illustrations of coins (pp. 62-69), full-page engraving of Stonehenge (p. 183) and many woodcuts in the text (Roman inscriptions, the Rollright Stones, etc.). Full parchment binding from the time.

 Sixth Latin edition of the great Elizabethan topographical and historical survey of Britain, the last published in Camden's lifetime, and the first to contain the county maps (54 are double-page, 3 are single-page). These were mainly engraved by William Hole (21) or William Kip (34), after the maps of Christopher Saxton (41) or John Norden (6). George Owen contributed Penbrokeshire. The other county maps are unsigned, the general maps of England, Scotland, and Ireland are derived from Mercator. - Map of 'Cambridge' (pp. 354-355) with a brown stain, otherwise very well preserved.

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