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Details
CAMDEN, WILLIAM. Camden's Britannia, newly translated into English: with large Additions and Improvements. Published by Edmund Gibson. London: F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. & J. Churchil, 1695. Folio, contemporary calf, worn, lower cover and final leaf detached, some dampstaining to upper and outer portions and lower outer portions at front of volumes and to upper portions at end of volume, map of Hampshire slightly torn and repaired, Kent with small tear, South Wales with tiny hole, Scotland with two tiny tears and with a trifling loss to rule border at top left. First Edition of Gibson's translation, engraved portrait, 50 double-page maps by Robert Morden and 9 engraved plates. Wing C-359.
Provenance
E. Waple, 1712 owner's inscription on insider upper cover -- Sion College Library, initials SC in imprint, ink library stamp on verso of title (sale, Sotheby's London, 13 June 1977, lot 13).