[Camden (William)], Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated int...

Hammer

£850

[Camden (William)], Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements, Publish'd by Edmund Gibson, of Queens-College in Oxford, London: Printed by F. Collins, for A. Swalle (sic), at the Unicorn at the West-end of St Paul's Church-yard; and A. & J. Churchil (sic), at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row, 1695, pp: [x], [24], ii-cxcv, [ii], 2-548, [lacking 549-552], 553-1116, [1] (blank), [36], [26], the main text paginated as double-columns (but for 833-848 which are numbered as singles) and the unpaginated Annals of Ireland collated as singular pages, the whole black-ruled throughout, 49 maps (of which 3 fold-out) (some old repairs and relaying on canvas), 9 plates and a portrait frontispiece engraved by Robert White (1645-1703), antiquarian illustrations throughout text, some Gothic Black Letter printing and foliated initials, 20th century brown crushed morocco in the 17th century taste, blind double-fillet enclosing scrolling fleurons at angles, seven-compartment spine of raised bands enclosing an 18th century gilt-lettered red morocco piece in the second compartment, cream endpapers, some early ink MS notes and annotations sadly washed, folio (39cm x 25cm), [1]