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Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumbria or Cumberlandia ie Cumberland, scale about 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; probably from a later edn, 1637.
   Camden 1607 map
map feature:- strapwork cartouche & swash lettering & compass rose & up is N & scale line & sea stippled & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
CUMBRIA / Sive CUMBERLANDIA / Qua olim pars / Brigantum
inscription:- printed below scale line
Scala Miliarium
inscription:- printed below scale line, lower left
Christophorus Saxton Descripsit / Wilhelmus Kip Sculpsit
inscription:- water mark:
[A N / 1627]
coat of arms and crown
scale line:- 10 miles = 50.0 mm
wxh, sheet:- 39x33cm
wxh, plate:- 326x289mm (?)
wxh, map:- 324x287mm
scale:- 1 to 320000 ? (1 to 321869 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
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