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.

Details

Subject(s)
Donor
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
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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