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Guili. Camdeni viri clarissimi Britannia, sive, Florentiss. regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, insularumque adiacentium, ex intima antiquitate descriptio

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 29

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Type of record: Book

Title: Guili. Camdeni viri clarissimi Britannia, sive, Florentiss. regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, insularumque adiacentium, ex intima antiquitate descriptio

Other titles: Britannia; Florentiss. regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, insularumq. adiacentium, ex intima antiquitate descriptio

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 29

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

Additional creator(s): Telle, Reinier (1578-1618) (Other); Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638) (Other)

Related people: Telle, Reinier; Blaeu, Willem Janszoon

Publisher: Apud Guilielmum Blaeu

Publication city: Amsterdami

Date(s): 1639

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 458, [10] p., [19] double leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298164

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003842309705181

Description

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 indexes.


Indexed in: Chubb LV.

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