Britannia, Vol. I & II Camden 1722

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  Camden, William. Revised by Edmund Gibson. Britannia: Or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands. The Second Edition, Revised, Digested, and Published, Published with Large Additions and Improvements by Edmund Gibson. London: Printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and Sold by William Taylor, 1722. 2 Volumes: complete in two tall folio volumes, most pages printed in two numbered columns: Vol. one: [66]pp, cclxviii columns,[2]pp, 696 columns; Vol. two: [2], 697-1526 columns,[176, appendices, index and errata]pp. Hard cover brown leather with tooling on covers, six raised hubs and faded gilt lettering on spine. Inscribed "F. Tasburgh" on title page of both volumes. Folio. 16" H x 10 1/2" W x 2 1/2" D. Map/Plate Collation: [map] England by Robert Morden, [map] Britannia Romana, [plate] British Coins, [plate] British Coins, [plate] Roman Coins, [plate] Roman Coins, [map] Britannia Saxonica, [5 plates] Saxon Coins, Counties of England and Wales, [map] Cornwall, [map] Devonshire (slight worm damage), [map] Dorset Shire, [map] Somerset Shire' [map] Wiltshire by, [map] Hampshire, [map] Barkshire, [map] Surrey [map] Sussex, [foldout map] Kent approx. 25 _î by 15 _î, [map] Gloucestershire, [map] Oxfordshire, [map] Buckinghamshire, [map] Devonshire, [map] Bedfordshire, [map] Hertfordshire, [map] Middlesex, [map] Essex two inch closed tear barely entering map), [map] Suffolk, [foldout map] Norfolk, [map] Cambridgeshire, [map] Huntingtonshire, [map] Northhamptonshire, [map] Leicestershire, [map] Rotelandiae (Rutlandshire), [map] Lincolnshire, [map] Nottingsham shire, [map] Darbyshire, [map] Warwickshire, [map] Worcestshire, [map] Staffordshire, [map] Shropshire, [map] County Palatine of Chester, [map] Herefordshire, 36 maps 9 plates of coins, End of Volume One. [map] South Wales, [map] County of Monmouth, [map] New and Correct Map of North-Wales, [plate] Curiosities, [map] West Riding of Yorkshire, [map] East Riding of Yorkshire' [map] North Riding of Yorkshire, [map] Dunelmensisò Durham, [map] County Palatine of Lancaster, [map] Westmorland, [map] Cumberland, [map] Northumberland, [map] South Part of Scotland (slight loss to trimming), [map] North Part of Scotland (slight loss to trimming), [map] Kingdom of Ireland, [map] Smaller Islands in the British Ocean, 15 maps 1 plate. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)

  Condition

  Rebacked with new corners in leather. Original boards retained. Leather rubbed with some cracking at hinges. Text in good condition with just slight foxing and toning. Completely collated and all maps and plates in very good condition with very little offsetting.
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