Comitatus, Vulgo Oxfordshire
Oxonium Comitatus, Vulgo Oxfordshire
1645.
385mm x 505mm. A fine, engraved, hand-coloured map of Oxfordshire by one of the most famous cartographers of the period. Details include hills and parks as well as towns and villages. Royal coat of arms at head, embellished in gilt. Oxford college crests to borders and decorative cartouche at the foot of the map. A near fine example, centre crease as usual, but very clean and bright.
The Blaeu family were perhaps the pre-eminent seventeenth century publishers of maps, globes and atlases. Joan Blaeu's English and Welsh county maps were printed in the fourth volume of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1645.
LITERATURE: BLAEU, Joan Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1645)
Stock ID: 45527
