CAMDEN, William (1551-1623).  Britannia, newly translated into English: with large additions and improvements, edited by Edmund Gibson, London: F. Collins for A. Swalle, 1695. 2° (385 x 230mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 double-page or folding maps by Robert Morden, 9 plates of coins and antiquities. (Title repaired at inner margin with rules supplied in manuscript, a few maps with cropped foredges and lower margins, not affecting images, occasional light spotting and dampstaining). 20th-century old-style panelled calf, covers with central mottled calf panel, spine with red morocco lettering-piece. FIRST EDITION of Edmund Gibson's translation. Chubb CXII; cf. Lowndes 357; Skelton 117; Wing C-359.
CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia, newly translated into English: with large additions and improvements, edited by Edmund Gibson, London: F. Collins for A. Swalle, 1695. 2° (385 x 230mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 double-page or folding maps by Robert Morden, 9 plates of coins and antiquities. (Title repaired at inner margin with rules supplied in manuscript, a few maps with cropped foredges and lower margins, not affecting images, occasional light spotting and dampstaining). 20th-century old-style panelled calf, covers with central mottled calf panel, spine with red morocco lettering-piece. FIRST EDITION of Edmund Gibson's translation. Chubb CXII; cf. Lowndes 357; Skelton 117; Wing C-359.

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CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia, newly translated into English: with large additions and improvements, edited by Edmund Gibson, London: F. Collins for A. Swalle, 1695. 2° (385 x 230mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 double-page or folding maps by Robert Morden, 9 plates of coins and antiquities. (Title repaired at inner margin with rules supplied in manuscript, a few maps with cropped foredges and lower margins, not affecting images, occasional light spotting and dampstaining). 20th-century old-style panelled calf, covers with central mottled calf panel, spine with red morocco lettering-piece. FIRST EDITION of Edmund Gibson's translation. Chubb CXII; cf. Lowndes 357; Skelton 117; Wing C-359.

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