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item:- Armitt Library :
ALMC2008.14.7
image:- ©
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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.
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Camden 1607 map
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map feature:-
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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
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, upper right
WESTMORLANDIAE / Comitatus qui olim / Spectavit ad /
BRIGANTAS
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inscription:-
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printed above scale line
Scala Miliarium
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inscription:-
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printed below scale line, lower right
Christophorus Saxton scripsit / William Kip sculpsit
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inscription:-
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water mark:
crown etc
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scale line:-
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8 miles = 55.5 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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cm
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wxh, plate:-
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mm
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wxh, map:-
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mm
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scale:-
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1 to 230000 ? (1 to 231978 from scale line wrongly assuming
a statute mile)
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