H. G. FORDHAM—HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS. 17 
scroll-heading to the chapter. The initial H contains a figure of 
St. Nicholas like that on the hack of the maps of the English 
editions of the ‘Theatre’ of 1611 and 1627, hut the border of the 
design round the initial letter differs slightly from either. 
Erom the first edition of the Latin translation of Speed’s ‘ Theatre’ 
by Philemon Holland, London, 1616, folio. The only copy I have 
seen is one in the Bibliotheque nationale at Paris. Bound in at 
the end of this volume, and uniform with it, is ‘ Petri Kaerii 
Germania Inferior ,’ etc., Amsterdam, 1662, folio. There is a second 
edition of this Latin version of the ‘ Theatre,’ published in 1646 by 
John Blaeu at Amsterdam, (q.v.). 
1617. Camden, William. 4if x 3-A- Scale, 8 miles = 
1 inch. Engraved by Peter Keer, after Saxton [1599]. 
A plain map, exactly following Saxton’s map of 1577 in the 
details and the spelling of the names, except that the boundaries 
of the hundreds, and the parks, are omitted. Shows the county 
boundary, rivers, with bridges, towns and villages, and hills and 
trees coarsely figured. Plain, double-lined border. Within margin, 
“ Septen . . . triof “ Oriensf “ M . . . eridiesf and 
“ OccidensP In left top corner, in panel, “ Hartfordia ComitatusP 
In left bottom corner “ Scala Miliar iumf with scale of 7 miles. 
This map has on the face a printer’s mark, “ Q,. 3 ” (omitted in the 
reproduction, Plate Y), and on the back the Latin text of the 
abridgment of Camden’s ‘ Britannia ’ which it illustrates. 
Erom a Latin abridgment or epitome of Camden’s ‘ Britannia ,’ 
published by William Jansson, at Amsterdam, 1617, sm. 8vo. 
Title : ‘ Guilielmi Camdeni , Yiri Clarissimi , Britannia , sive floren- 
tissimorum Regnorum Anglice, Scot ice, Ribernice , et Insularum 
adjacentium ex intima antiquitate descriptio. In epitomen contracta 
a Regnero Vitellio Zirhceo , et Tabulis Chorographicis illustrata .’ 
Amstelredami , Ex Officina Guilielmi Janssonii , m.dc.xvii. 
There is a smaller reprint of this epitome published by William 
Blaeu, 1639, 12mo, which contains two maps of Great Britain, 
and maps in sections containing a number of counties in one, 
reduced from larger sectional maps of an earlier date by Mercator 
and H. Hondius. 
The series of small maps of the English and Welsh counties, 
etc., in which the above map of Hertfordshire occurs, engraved by 
Petrus Kaerius (or Peter Keer) in 1599, is reprinted in the 
epitome of Speed’s ‘Theatre’ 1620 (?), 1627, 1666, and 1676, 
London, obi. 12mo, in which impressions the titles of the maps 
are inserted in English, and there is no text on the back of the 
maps, the map of Hertfordshire being numbered 19. The above is 
from the earliest set of these maps I have found, and the only one 
in which the titles are in Latin. Many of them are signed by the 
engraver “ Petrus Kaerius ccelavitf and a few are dated 1599, e.g., 
Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Badnorshire, etc., and a map of 
part of Scotland. Although the maps are not all signed, and a 
few only are dated, they are uniform in dimensions and character, 
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