Camden's Britannia newly translated into English with large additions and improvements
49 of 50 plates. London: F Collins for A Swalle, 1695. Folio. Hardcover. First edition of the translation by Edmund Gibson'. 49 of 50 maps and 8 of 9 plates. Two leaves of the preface are professionally prepared with a few letters of text missing at the bottom of two leaves. Later full morocco. Edges a little trimmed on some maps. Some interesting early ink and pencil annotations, some in margins, back of verso on one map, and sometimes on the maps themselves, in early hand. A to M of the Index in the back. Very good, clear and clean double-paged maps by Robert Morden. Engraved pates of coins, antriquities, and stonehenge. Very Good. Item #020292
Price: $5,225.00 NZD