Camden 1607 map
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 345 |
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorlandiae ie Westmorland,
scale about 3.5 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. |
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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 |
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| inscription:- |
printed above scale line
Scala Miliarium |
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| inscription:- |
printed below scale line, lower right
Christophorus Saxton scripsit / William Kip sculpsit |
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| inscription:- |
water mark:
crown and bunch of grapes |
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| scale line:- | 8 miles = 55.8 mm | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 41x32.5cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 313x265mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 230000 ? (1 to 230730 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |