Morden's Map of Cornwall Binding_publisher's boards German New Guinea

German New Guinea

Cercle de Baverie

Printed in colours

slight dustiness to upper and right hand margins

Morden's Map of Cornwall Binding_publisher's boards German New GuineaRobert Morden's county maps, like this one of Cornwall, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of Camdens work with maps by Kip and Hole was published in 1607, but by the late seventeenth century it had become scarce and expensive. Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned new maps from Morden,