Oxonium comitatus : vulgo Oxford shire [map] / Ioh. Blaeu excud.

Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
  • Latin
  • English
Published/​Created
[Amsterdam : J. Blaeu, 1648]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:130,000]. (W 1°46ʹ00ʺ--W 0°42ʹ00ʺ/N 52°10ʹ00ʺ--N 51°26ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map : hand col. ; 37 x 42 cm. on sheet 39 x 51 cm.

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Special Collections - Rare Books Historic Map Collection HMC01.4794 D Alcove 24, Drawer 5 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
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    Notes
    • Imprint derived from the earliest atlas in which the map was issued.
    • Issued in this state in successive editions of the atlas until the plate was destroyed in 1672.
    • Shows hundred boundaries, rivers, woods, parks and settlements ; college and university coats of arms.
    • Relief shown pictorially.
    • French text on verso with caption title: Oxford-shire; p. 177-178; signature Ggg; includes hand-colored illustration of Stonehenge.
    Geographic coverage
    County of Oxford.
    Source acquisition
    Historic Maps copy is gift of Norris S. Haselton, Princeton class of 1925.
    References
    • Skelton, 23,72
    • Koeman, C. Antlantes neerlandici (New ed.) 5265:2:311
    Place name(s)
    • England Oxfordshire.
    • Netherlands Amsterdam.
    OCLC
    43183058
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