Map Oxfordshire by Plot Robert (3 results)

No binding. 500 x 480 mm., with very good modern outline colour to the map with wash to the coats or arms, with old folds as issued for inclusion in the book, with pinholes at double folds only visible when held to the light., short printers crease, one short repaired tear to right side 30 mm., repaired, otherwise in good condition. This fine map is considered the most decorative ever published of the county of Oxfordshire. What makes it particularly striking are the 172 coats of arms surrounding the map. Those along the top border represent the eighteen University Colleges, the City of Oxford along with the University and four further towns within the county. The remainder belong to the gentry in the county. A few roads are shown which makes the map notable for being one of the earliest English county maps to depict any. It is engraved by Michael Burghers, who is noted for engraving the plates for David Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata' published two years earlier. The map illustrates Robert Plot's 'The Natural History of Oxford-Shire' a work noted for being one of the first to depict fossils. Plot was a Professor of Chemistry at the University and later would become the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

No binding. 495 x 480 mm., with very good modern outline colour to the map with wash to the coats or arms, with old folds as issued for inclusion in the book, in good condition. This fine map is considered the most decorative ever published of the county of Oxfordshire. What makes it particularly striking are the 172 coats of arms surrounding the map. Those along the top border represent the eighteen University Colleges, the City of Oxford along with the University and four further towns within the county. The remainder belong to the gentry in the county. A few roads are shown which makes the map notable for being one of the earliest English county maps to depict any. It is engraved by Michael Burghers (1647?-1727), who is noted for engraving the plates for David Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata' published two years earlier. The map illustrates Robert Plot's 'The Natural History of Oxford-Shire' a work noted for being one of the first to depict fossils. Plot was a Professor of Chemistry at the University and later would become the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Provenance: Jonathan Potter 2008; private collection of Rodney Shirley. Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).

Coloured; one or two short tears to the edges of the paper and now expertly repaired, signs of old folds from book, trimmed close as is often the case, but with enough blank paper to facilitate framing, overall an excellent example on thicker paper than usual. One of the most decorative maps of Oxfordshire available, produced by Dr Robert Plot, a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Engraved by Michael Burghers and surrounded by 172 coats of arms of the county's gentry and Oxford colleges. Published in Plot's 'The Natural History of Oxfordshire' from 1676, the earliest natural history of the county. The book contains a description of all parts of the county, selected historical events, people, flora and fauna and other curiosities. The work also contains descriptions and images of fossils found in the county including the first known illustration of a dinosaur bone.