Camden 1607 map

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	item:- Kendal Library : Map 95
	Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorlandiae Comitatus, the County of Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, 1576, engraved by William Kip, London, 1607; published London, 1637? The map probably comes from the first English translation of Britannia by William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, 1637 edition. Plate number 53 lower left; the image is distorted, for example the lower border has a kink upwards to the right from the half way position.
		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 = 54.8 mm
	wxh, sheet:-	31.5x28.5cm
	wxh, map:-	310x264mm
	scale:-	1 to 230000 ? (1 to 234941 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)

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