Lot 119
Camden, William
Britannia
The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician
Auction: 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Lands. Written in Latin. And Translated into English, with Additions and Improvements by Edmund Gibson. London: printed for James and John Knapton, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, Francis Fayram, John Osborn [and others], c.1730. Second edition, later issue, 2 volumes, folio (40 x 23.8cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, engraved portrait frontispiece, title-pages in red and black, 51 engraved folding maps by Robert Morden, 9 engraved plates of coins, full-page engraving (numbered ‘XX’) on recto of 5N (with a duplicate of the engraving only bound in after), woodcut and engraved illustrations within the text, bindings worn, splits to upper heads of joints, volume 1 with small worm track to lower margins of 4I-4S and maps of Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Chester and Herefordshire but text and images never affected, volume 2 with inscription giving William Camden's dates on title-page [ESTC N43508; Skelton 117; cf. Chubb CXV] (2)
Footnote
Gibson's edition of Camden's Britannia, the first with Morden's maps, was first published in 1695. The second edition appeared in 1722; the present edition is undated, but Skelton cites an undated reissue with the approximate date of 1730, and the conger of booksellers listed in the imprint is identified by ESTC as being active between 1729 and 1730.