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WILLIAM CAMDEN (1551-1623)
Britannia or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland. London: for R. Ware, 1753. 2 volumes, 2° (395 x 236mm). Engraved portrait by White, 10 engraved plates, 9 of coins, and 50 (of 51) double-page engraved maps, 48 after Robert Morden, 2 folding woodcut and engraved illustrations. (Small hole in map of Gloucestershire, lacking the map of Derbyshire.) Contemporary calf (rubbed). Provenance: John Scott, 1st earl of Eldon (1751-1838), by direct descent; removed from Encombe House, Dorset.
Britannia or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland. London: for R. Ware, 1753. 2 volumes, 2° (395 x 236mm). Engraved portrait by White, 10 engraved plates, 9 of coins, and 50 (of 51) double-page engraved maps, 48 after Robert Morden, 2 folding woodcut and engraved illustrations. (Small hole in map of Gloucestershire, lacking the map of Derbyshire.) Contemporary calf (rubbed). Provenance: John Scott, 1st earl of Eldon (1751-1838), by direct descent; removed from Encombe House, Dorset.