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Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.7
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae ie Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, engraved by William Kip, about 1607 edn 1610 or 1627?
Originally engraved for Britannia by William Camden, the last Latin edition, 6th edn 1607, this impression of the map is from an English edition of Britannia, published 1610 onwards. The reverse of the map is blank.
   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:
crown etc
scale line:- 8 miles = 55.5 mm
wxh, sheet:- cm
wxh, plate:- mm
wxh, map:- mm
scale:- 1 to 230000 ? (1 to 231978 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
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