Camden 1607 map

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	Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae Comitatus, ie the County of Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, 1576, engraved by William Kip, London, 1607; published by George Bishop and John Norton, London, 1610. The map comes from the first English translation of Britannia by William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, 1610. The plate has no text on the reverse, and no plate number.
		Camden 1607 map
	map feature:-	swash lettering & strapwork cartouche & labelled borders & scale line & sea stippled & coast shaded & rivers & bridges & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements
	inscription:-	printed title cartouche, upper right WESTMORLANDIAE / Comitatus qui olim / Spectauit ad / BRIGANTES
	inscription:-	printed with scale line, lower right Scala / Miliarium. / Christophorus Saxton scripsit / William Kip sculpsit
	scale line:-	8 miles = 55.3 mm
	scale:-	1 to 230000 ? (1 to 232816 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
	wxh, map:-	312x262mm

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