Camden, William: Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjoyning (Camden’s Britannia)

Description

Second edition of the Philemon Holland translation; in original seventeenth-century Cambridge calf, binding restored and rebacked; previous owners’ names on front endpapers and title page – one owner seems to have been a ‘W. J. Rhees’, who may have been William J. Rhees, first keeper of the Smithsonian Archives; all plates and maps are present; foxing throughout, some pages have chipped edges, minor staining, a few marks in text, original front free endpaper has been mounted onto a new page