Camden 1607 map
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item:- Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.6 image:- © see bottom of page |
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorlandiae ie Westmorland,
scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton,
engraved by William Kip, about 1607.
Included in Britannia by William Camden, the last Latin edition, 6th edn 1607. On the reverse of the right side of the map is the start of the descriptive text for Westmoreland, in Latin, p.624. |
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Camden 1607 map | |
| map feature:- | strapwork cartouche & swash lettering & labelled borders (Latin) & up is N & scale line & sea stippled & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, upper right
WESTMORLANDIAE / Comitatus qui olim / Spectavit ad / BRIGANTAS |
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| inscription:- |
printed above scale line
Scala Miliarium |
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| inscription:- |
printed below scale line, lower right
Christophorus Saxton scripsit / William Kip sculpsit |
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| inscription:- |
water mark:
crown and bunch of grapes |
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| scale line:- | 8 miles = 56.0 mm | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 39.5x33cm | |
| wxh, plate:- | 318x267mm | |
| wxh, map:- | 313x263mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 230000 ? (1 to 229906 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |
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