Camden 1607 map
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item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.12 image:- © see bottom of page |
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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; perhaps from a later edn, 1637. |
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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 |
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| inscription:- |
printed below scale line
Scala Miliarium |
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| inscription:- |
printed below scale line, lower left
Christophorus Saxton Descripsit / Wilhelmus Kip Sculpsit |
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| inscription:- |
water mark:
[R G] crown or fleur de lys |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 49.7 mm | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 37.5x32.5cm | |
| wxh, plate:- | 324x288mm | |
| wxh, map:- | 322x285mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 320000 ? (1 to 323812 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |