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WILLIAM CAMDEN (1551-1623)
Britannia, sive florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1607. 2° (345 x 223mm.). Additional engraved title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, woodcut illustrations, 8 engraved plates of coins and 57 engraved maps by William Kip and William Hole after John Norden and Christopher Saxton. (Maps of Cambridgeshire and Denbigh with small rust holes, first map of Yorkshire with section of margin torn away, Kk3 with short closed tear, final index leaf with repaired margin, occasional light spotting and marginal waterstaining). 18th-century calf panelled in gilt (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed, later endpapers).
Brunet I, 1510: "Cet ouvrage est fort estimé, et l' édition que nous citons [1607] est la meilleure et la dernière qu'ait donnée l' auteur"; Lowndes p. 356; Skelton 5; STC 4508.
Britannia, sive florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1607. 2° (345 x 223mm.). Additional engraved title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, woodcut illustrations, 8 engraved plates of coins and 57 engraved maps by William Kip and William Hole after John Norden and Christopher Saxton. (Maps of Cambridgeshire and Denbigh with small rust holes, first map of Yorkshire with section of margin torn away, Kk
Brunet I, 1510: "Cet ouvrage est fort estimé, et l' édition que nous citons [1607] est la meilleure et la dernière qu'ait donnée l' auteur"; Lowndes p. 356; Skelton 5; STC 4508.
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