CAMDEN. BRITANNIA, 1607, FOLIO, CONTEMPORARY VELLUM

FIRST EDITION, folio (330 x 220mm.), engraved additional title and 57 maps by William Kip and William Hole after John Norden, Christopher Saxton and George Owen, most double-page, 8 full-page engraved illustrations of coins, woodcut illustrations in text, contemporary vellum with blind-stamped arms in black on upper cover, L2, L4 and map of Staffordshire browned, map of Denbigh with paper flaw just touching engraved area, binding somewhat soiled

George-Barthold Pontanus of Braitenburg, arms on upper cover; Ferdinand Blümm (1768-1823, classical philologist), signature; ?Robert Duighiar, Sept 29 1856, inscription; "Eastham", old stamp

Skelton 5

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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A GOOD COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY ARMORIAL BINDING OF THE FIRST EDITION OF CAMDEN'S BRITANNIA TO BE PUBLISHED WITH MAPS. From the library of George-Barthold Pontanus of Braitenburg (d.1616), a theologian and poet, who was made Poet Laureate to Rudolf II in 1588, and later made canon and prevost of Prague cathedral.