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Guili. Camdeni viri clarissimi Britannia : sive, Florentiss. regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, insularumque adiacentium, ex intima antiquitate descriptio / in epitomen contracta a Regnero Vitellio Zirizæo, & tabulis chorographicis illustrata.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Amsterdami : apud Guilielmum Blaeu, MDCXXXIX. [1639]Description: 458, [10] p., [19] leaves of plates, : maps (some folded) ; 13 cm (12°)Subject(s): DDC classification:
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Non-Loanable Book RDS Archives Archival Material CAM 941 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 000301634

Contains very much reduced versions of Mercator's group county maps of 1595, which had previously appeared in P. Bertii Tabularum Geographicarum contractarum ... 1616. The general maps of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland bear the signature of the engraver, S. Rogiers. The text, in Latin, is a reprint of the abridgement of Camden's Britannia. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection ... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 28.

Signatures: A-T¹2 V⁶.

Title vignette (armillary sphere).

Includes index.

Tighe Bequest. IeDuRDS

Fine full red morocco with triple gilt borders, gold tooled turn-ins.Thistle and floral motif on spine with gilt edges green morocco title labels. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. IeDuRDS

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