Map from the 1607 edition of William Camden's Britannia, a history of Britain that was revolutionary in its time for Camden's meticulous historiography. In the centerpiece of this engraving is the map of Britain itself, labeled in Latin, around which is a fanciful decorative border including an inset scene with a castle and Stonehenge, a woman with a wheat-crown raising a sickle, and a crowned Poseidon-like figure with a trident and a dolphin slithering about his leg. Mounted on laid paper; mounting itself is at least two centuries old--there is an auctioneer's inscription on the back dated to November 1794.
