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item:- Carlisle Library : Map
135
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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. The reverse is plain.
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Camden 1607 map
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map feature:-
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strapwork cartouche & swash lettering & compass rose
& 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 left
CUMBRIA / Sive CUMBERLANDIA / Qua olim pars /
Brigantum
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inscription:-
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printed below scale line, lower left
Christophorus Saxton Descripsit / Wilhelmus Kip
Sculpsit
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
Scala Miliarium
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 49.8 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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38.5x33cm
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wxh, map:-
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324x284mm
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scale:-
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1 to 320000 ? (1 to 323161 from scale line wrongly assuming
a statute mile)
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