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Guilielmi Camdeni, viri clarissimi Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, & insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate descriptio. In epitomen contracta a regnero Vitellio Zirizaeo, & tabulis chorographicis illustrata

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 14

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Type of record: Book

Title: Guilielmi Camdeni, viri clarissimi Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, & insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate descriptio. In epitomen contracta a regnero Vitellio Zirizaeo, & tabulis chorographicis illustrata

Other titles: Britannia

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 14

Creator(s): Camden, William (1551-1623)

Additional creator(s): Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624) (Other)

Related people: Keere, Pieter van den

Publisher: ex officina Guilielmi Ianssonij

Publication city: Amstelredami

Date(s): 1617

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [16], 714, [26] p.; maps

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298096

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003834219705181

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An abridged version of Camden's Britannia with Latin text, and, so far as the maps of England and Wales are concerned, illustrated by reduced copies of Saxton's maps, engraved by Peter Keer, and also a number of sectional maps of Scotland and Ireland.


Pages 287, 370, 456, 574 and 644 are misnumbered 187, 170, 556, a74 and 642 respectively.


With [26] final pages of tables, the index and errata. - Illustrations: maps (some folded plates) of counties of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.


Indexed in: Chubb X.

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