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THE FIRST EDITION WITH MAPS18. CAMDEN, William. Britannia sive florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliæ,Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitatechorographica descriptio … Nunc postremò recognita, & magna accessione postGermanicam æditionem adaucta. London, [Printed at Eliot’s Court Press], 1600.Small 4to, pp. [16], 831, [27], 30, [2, blank], with an additional engraved title(incorporating a map of the British Isles), two folding maps (one of the Romanprovince of Britain, the other of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy), and additionalengravings in the text (some full-page, including a map of Ireland and a view ofStonehenge); engraved title cropped at foot; a little worming, particularly at the footof the first five leaves, but otherwise a very attractive copy, partly loose incontemporary limp vellum, front flyleaves frayed; ownership inscription of SirGeorge Shirley (1559-1622) on title and bookplate of his descendant, WashingtonSewallis Shirley, ninth Earl Ferrers (1822-1914). £2250Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, the first edition to contain maps and to printthe address to the reader in which Camden answers the charges raised in RalphBrooke’s Discoverie of certaine Errours (1599). ‘If Camden is not the first Englishhistorian (in the modern sense), topographer, and antiquarian, he was certainly thefirst to relate the three studies, and his Britannia, primarily topographical, is thefirst book which shows, even in a rudimentary form, the need to evaluate sources.It was … model for research in all three subjects for the next two hundred and fiftyyears’ (PMM 101).FINELY-BOUND COPIES OF CANNON’S ‘AUTHORITATIVE AND READABLE’REGIMENTAL HISTORIES19. CANNON, Richard. Historical Records of the British Army. Comprising theHistory of every Regiment in Her Majesty’s Service. London: ‘printed byauthority’, ‘1837’ [but 1834-1839.]9 works bound in 3 volumes, 8vo; a very good and attractive set, bound in nearuniformcontemporary red, black, and green British straight-grained morocco gilt,boards with gilt borders enclosing central gilt royal arms, spines gilt incompartments, lettered directly in 3 and dated at the foot, royal crest in uppercompartment, roll-tooled gilt board-edges and turn-ins, II and III with coated paperdividers, all edges gilt, silk markers; extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, afew light marks. £5000First editions. This set contains the first nine titles in Cannon’s series of officialregimental histories, which eventually extended to cover sixty-eight regiments,comprising: Historical Record of the Life-Guards with 6 hand-coloured lithographicplates printed by G.E. Madeley; An Historical Record of the Royal Regiment of HorseGuards, or Oxford Blues, with mounted lithographic portrait frontispiece on indiaand 6 hand-coloured lithographic plates; Historical Record of the First, or King’sRegiment of Dragoon Guards, with 4 hand-coloured lithographic plates; HistoricalRecord of the Second, or Queen’s Regiment of Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), with4 hand-coloured lithographic plates; Historical Record of the Third, or Prince ofWales’ Regiment of Dragoon Guards, with 3 hand-coloured lithographic plates;Historical Record of the Fourth, or Royal Irish Regiment of Dragoon Guards, with 3hand-coloured lithographic plates; Historical Record of the Fifth, or Princess