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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.
   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
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scala Miliarium
inscription:- printed below scale line, lower right
Christophorus Saxton scripsit / William Kip sculpsit
inscription:- water mark:
[M V]
coat of arms, crown
wxh, sheet:- 39x33.5cm
wxh, plate:- 314x266mm
wxh, map:- 311x263mm
scale:- 1 to 230000 ? (estimate)