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MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS, 83 Marylebone High Street, London, W.1, has issued a catalogue (No. 692) of maps and atlases of the British Isles from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries which contains several items of unusual interest. There is a first edition of Camden's "Britannia" with 57 double-page maps, and also a copy of Collins' "Coasting Pilot" of 1693 with 48 maps. Perhaps more noteworthy are several copies of different editions of Speed's atlas, including the rare fully-coloured one, and a first edition of Saxton's atlas of England and Wales. The catalogue also lists a copy of that rarest of all sea atlases, "Arcano del Mare" of Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, with 133 maps, and plans and diagrams.
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Rare and Historic Maps. Nature 162, 920 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162920c0
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