Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297

Sale 2297 - Lot 313

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CAMDEN, WILLIAM. Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English . . . Publish'd by Edmund Gibson. Engraved frontispiece of the author; 50 double-page maps; 2 double- and 9 single-page numismatic plates. [16] leaves, cxcvi columns, [1] leaf, 832 columns, 833-48 pages, 849-1116 [i. e., 118] columns, [22] leaves. Folio, 377x226 mm, modern 1/4 calf; outer margin of portrait cropped, marginal soiling and minor stains on portrait and title, contents otherwise generally clean. London: F. Collins for A. Swalle et al., 1695
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first gibson edition. With generally good plate margins except as follows: Berkshire, Surrey, and Durham are cropped in the upper margin, Kent in outer margins, Hertfordshire and Norfolk in lower margin, and Scotland in upper and lower margins. Northumberland has 2 minor marginal paper faults, and Derbyshire is bound upside down.