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item:- Carlisle Library : Map
345
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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.
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Camden 1607 map
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map feature:-
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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
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, upper right
WESTMORLANDIAE / Comitatus qui olim / Spectavit ad /
BRIGANTAS
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inscription:-
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printed above scale line
Scala Miliarium
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inscription:-
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printed below scale line, lower right
Christophorus Saxton scripsit / William Kip sculpsit
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inscription:-
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water mark:
crown and bunch of grapes
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scale line:-
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8 miles = 55.8 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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41x32.5cm
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wxh, map:-
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313x265mm
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scale:-
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1 to 230000 ? (1 to 230730 from scale line wrongly assuming
a statute mile)
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