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Antique Maps of Oxfordshire
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18th Century - Early Hand Colouring
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Oxfordshire Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys, 1749
14251 Oxfordshire Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys, 1749. Price: 70.00
A MAP OF OXFORDSHIRE. An engraved map of the county with scale and compass pointer. Beneath the map is a list of towns with their market and fair days. 5 1/4 x 5 inches, 130 x 128 mm. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.
From: The Small English Atlas
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18th Century Road Map
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Road Map - Plate 86 / 87, Thomas Kitchin, c.1765
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27728 Road Map - Plate 86 / 87, Thomas Kitchin, c.1765. Price: 36.00
THE ROAD FROM NOTTINGHAM TO GRIMSBY IN LINCOLNSHIRE...
Plate 86 of a double sided engraved strip road map. Starting at Nottingham and passing though Newark, Lincoln,Market Rasen and onto Grimsby. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. Uncoloured. Small blank margin on left hand side. On the verso is plate 87 THE ROAD FROM OXFORD TO BRISTOL. The route passes through Faringdon, Highworth, Tormanton and onto Bristol. This side is hand coloured. Good condition.
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19th Century
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Oxfordshire, Archibald Fullarton, c.1840
28739 Oxfordshire, Archibald Fullarton, c.1840. Price: 35.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A detailed engraved map of the county embellished with a vignette view of Oxford from the Meadows. Scale, compass pointer and list of hundreds. Uncoloured. 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Good condition.
From The Parliamentary Gazetteer
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18th Century - With Text
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Oxfordshire, Emanuel Bowen, c.1761
29249 Oxfordshire, Emanuel Bowen, c.1761. Price: 50.00
OXFORDSHIRE DIVIDED INTO ITS HUNDREDS CONTAINING TOWNS &C BY EMAN: BOWEN GEOGR. TO HIS MAJESTY. 6 3/4 x 88 x 6 3/4 inches. Uncoloured. Two vertical fold lines as it appears in the atlas. Uncoloured. Small slit in a fold and small piece of blank margin missing as will be seen in the illustration due to the way the map is bound into the atlas. This map is still bound to the pages of description numbered from 364 to 400. Publishers imprint beneath the map dated 1758.
From The Natural History of England
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Oxfordshire, John Speed, 1646
29395 Oxfordshire, John Speed, 1646. Price: 1000.00
OXFORDSHIRE described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ye famous University Ao. 1605. London. A fine decorative 17th century map of the county published by John Sudbury and George. Embellished withan inset town plan of Oxford. Two figures standing on either side of a globe. Down the two sides of the map are panels displaying a total of eighteen coats of arms. Royal arms and two others. English text on verso. 20 x 15 inches. Uncoloured. Repair to bottom blank margin near the centre fold. Brown mark on map north of Wallingford. Some darkening down the centre fold and a little light creasing. Good full original blank margins.
From: Theatre Empire of Great Britaine
Early 19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Oxfordshire, George Cole and John Roper, 1810
30052 Oxfordshire, George Cole and John Roper, 1810. Price: 45.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A detailed map of the county engraved by J. Roper from a drawing by G. Cole. Publishers imprint beneath dated 1807. Explanation and list of hundreds. Compass rose. 7 x 9 1/4 inches. Original wash colouring colouring. Fine condition with wide blank margins. Straight from the atlas and not sold as a single map before.
From: The British Atlas
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Early 19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Oxfordshire, George Cole and John Roper, 1810
30528 Oxfordshire, George Cole and John Roper, 1810. Price: 45.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A good detailed engraved map of the county divided into hundreds. Bears the publishers imprint dated of 1807. Explanation. 7 x 9 1/4 inches. Original wash and outline hand colouring. Good condition. Straight from the atlas and not sold as a single map before. With original page of descriptive text.
From: The British Atlas
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Early 19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Oxfordshire, John Cary, 1809
30738 Oxfordshire, John Cary, 1809. Price: 49.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A good engraved map of the county. Title panel with compass rose. Publisher’s imprint beneath dated 1809. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Attractive original outline hand colouring. Good condition.
From: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas
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19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Oxfordshire, James Pigot / Isaac Slater, c.1857
30794 Oxfordshire, James Pigot / Isaac Slater, c.1857. Price: 76.00
OXFORDSHIRE. An engraved map of the county with title, scale, explanation and list of hundreds. Embellished with an uncoloured view of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. 8 3/4 x 14 inches. Original outline hand colouring. On stout paper. Good undamaged condition.
From: Isaac Slater’s New British Atlas
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18th Century - Interesting Provenance
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Oxfordshire, John Cary 1793
30879 Oxfordshire, John Cary 1793. Price: 52.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A detailed engraved map of the county. Title panel and compass rose combined. Cary's imprint beneath dated 1793. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Some of the town names are underlined in red. With the original page of descriptive text. Good condition.
From Cary's New and Correct English Atlas
The significance of some towns being underlined in red is given by the previous owner of the atlas John Hobson Matthews by means of a manuscript note in red ink he has added at the start of the atlas. He says
The places underlined in red ink are those in which a Catholic mission has been established between the era of the Reformation and the year 1840
John Hobson Matthews (1858 - 1914) Born in Croydon in 1858. Educated at schools at Blackheath and Cambridge. Worked for a shipping firm in Malta. A good linguist he was a Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor. You will find more details about him here in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
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19th Century
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Oxfordshire, George Washington Bacon, c.1896
30899 Oxfordshire, George Washington Bacon, 1895. Price: 20.00
OXFORDSHIRE REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY. DIVIDED INTO 5 MILE SQUARES. A good detailed late 19th century colour printed map of county. Shows the railways. 12 x 18 inches. Good condition.
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Oxfordshire, Edward Langley and William Belch, 1820
30935 Oxfordshire, Edward Langley and William Belch, 1820. Price: 72.00
LANGLEY’S NEW MAP OF OXFORDSHIRE. An engraved map of the county. In the bottom left hand corner is a vignette view of the Entrance into Oxford from the London Road. The title appears above the map. Beneath the map is the publishers imprint Printed and Published by Langley & Belch, No. 173 High Street, Borough, London, Septr. 1st, 1817. 6 3/4 x 10 inches. Manuscript number 30 in the bottom right hand corner. Original outline and wash hand colouring. A little light toning and some speckled foxing in the blank margins. No tears or repairs.
From: Langley’s New County Atlas of England and Wales
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18th Century - Original Hand Coloouring
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Oxfordshire, John Cary 1793
31000 Oxfordshire, John Cary 1793. Price: 46.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A detailed engraved map of the county. Title panel and compass rose combined. Cary's imprint beneath dated 1793. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Centre fold. Old manuscript numbering in blank margin 124 and 125. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.
From: Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas
TITLEPAGE AND ANNOTATED CONTENTS PAGE
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Hobsons Fox Hunting Atlas List of Hunts
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Victorian - Fox Hunting
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Oxfordshire - Fox Hunting, John and Charles Walker, 1851
31057 Oxfordshire - Fox Hunting, John and Charles Walker, 1851. Price: 47.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A good detailed lithograph map of the county from Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas showing the places of the Meeting of the Hounds. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Co. Paternoster Row, London. Original outline hand colouring. Fine condition. Straight from the atlas so has not been sold as a single map before.
Shows Warwickshire, Neythrop, Mr. Drake, Vale of White Horse, Old Berkshire, Mr.Philips and South Berkshire Hunts
Provenance: George Hayhurst - Royal Fusiliers and Henry H. France
TITLEPAGE AND LIST OF HUNTS
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Hobson Fox Hunting Atlas Titlepage
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Hobsons Fox Hunting Atlas List of Hunts
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18th Century - Mrket & Fair Days
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Oxfordshire, T. Badesladed and W. H. Toms 1742
31109 Oxfordshire, Thomas Badeslade and William Henry Toms, 1742. Price: 47.00
A MAP OF OXFORD-SHIRE NORTH WEST FROM LONDON. A delightful small engraved map of the county with scale and compass rose. To the left of the map is a panel providing information on Members of Parliament and listing the major towns with the Market and Fair Days. 5 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Uncoloured. Publisher’s imprint beneath dated 1742 with the names of Thomas Badeslade the surveyor and W. H. Toms the engraver. Nice good clean condition.
From: Chorographia Britanniae
Provenance: In 1925 the atlas was owned by A. P. Hamilton
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Chorographia Britanniae 1742
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Chorographia Britanniae 1742 Dedication
It is interesting to note that the atlas was intended for the use of his Majesty King George I for his intended tour through England and Wales. He died on June 11th, 1727. The dedication is to Frederick Prince of Wales, son of George II born February 1st, 1707 and who died on March 31st, 1751 at Kew.
Thomas Badeslade
Principally a surveyor and engineer working with his son Henry working on river improvements and fens reclamation
He started drawing maps of the Fens and waterways and was instrumental in a number of works in the first half of the 18th century. For county map collectors his one work was a series of very distinctive maps he drew for Chorographia Brittanniae engraved and published by W. H.Toms. First published in 1741 with a further edition in 1742 in which the maps show more place names. There were further edition up to 1749. The panel of information beside each map is particularly interesting listing towns in the county with their Market and Fair days.
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Chorographia Britanniae 1742
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Chorographia Britanniae 1742 Dedication
It is interesting to note that the atlas was intended for the use of his Majesty King George I for his intended tour through England and Wales. He died on June 11th, 1727. The dedication is to Frederick Prince of Wales, son of George II born February 1st, 1707 and who died on March 31st, 1751 at Kew.
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Oxfordshire, Reuben Ramble 1845
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Oxfordshire Text, Reuben Ramble 1844
31382 Oxfordshire, Reuben Ramble, c.1845. Price: 105.00
OXFORDSHIRE. An uncommon lithograph miniature map of the county surrounded by a wide border of vignette views of local scenes including the Oxford, St. Mary’s Church, Christchurch, Radcliffe Library and Blenheim. The maps first appeared in Miller’s New Miniature Atlas published in 1810. The decorative views were added and the maps republished by Darton & Clark in “Reuben Ramble’s Travels Through the Counties of England” in 1844. 5 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. This is the size of overall area and not the contained map. Original hand colouring. With this map is the original double sided page of text describing the county.
Reuben Ramble was a pseudonym of the Reverend Samuel Clark (1810 - 1875). The Rector of Eaton-Bishop in Herefordshire and later a curate in Northamptonshire. He wrote geography books for children being in partnership with the publisher William Darton from c.1836 to 1843. Many copies of Reuben Ramble's Travels will no doubt have been lost over the years through mistreatment by children. I have seen specimens with drawings, scribbles and doodles during the time I have been dealing in maps. A whimsical addition for your map collection.
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Oxfordshire, Carington Bowles, 1785
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Sir H. George Fordham
31441 Oxfordshire, Carington Bowles, 1785. Price: 120.00
BOWLES’S NEW MEDIUM MAP OF OXFORD SHIRE DIVIDED INTO ITS HUNDREDS.. A good detailed late 18th century map of the county. The title appears within a circular panel bearing the imprint of Carington Bowles No. 69 in St. Paul’s Church Yard. Beneath the map is a further imprint Published as the Act directs, 3 Jan. 1785. Around the map are interesting engraved notes pertaining to the county. 8 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Explanation and scale. Original outline hand colouring. Superb clean condition having been taken straight from the atlas and not sold previously as a single map.
From Bowles’s New Medium English Atlas
The maps in this atlas are based on the maps by Emanuel and Thomas Bowen in their Atlas Anglicanus. The title cartouche has been changed as well as the addition of the distance in miles from London shown by some town names.
Provenance: This map comes from an atlas which was once in the library of the renowned carto-bibliographer Sir Herbert George Fordham (1854 - 1929). He was the first to attempt the systematic cataloguing of the maps of an English county. Born on 9th May 1854 at Odsey, a manor on the borders of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire sold to the Fordham family in 1793 by the 5th Duke of Devonshire. The flyleaf of the atlas was signed H.George Fordham, Odsey, 1925. Further reading: Map Collectors' Circle No. 51: Sir H.George Fordham Carto-bibliographer by J. M. Henshall.
The atlas was later in the library of Professor Eva Germaine Remington Taylor (1879 - 1966) Distinguished geographer. Presented after her death to Birbeck College, University of London. Sold by their order at Sotheby's, London and purchased by Richard Nicholson
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Oxfordshire, Thomas Kitchin / J. Capper, 1769
31476 Oxfordshire, Thomas Kitchin / J. Capper, 1769. Price: 65.00
OXFORDSHIRE. An untitled map of the county. 7 x 8 inches, 170 x 195 mm. Hand coloured. Good undamaged condition. Rare.
From: Kitchin's Pocket Atlas
This map was sold by me in my Chester shop in 1986 and now on offer again. I have marked it as a collector’s map as it rarely comes into stock. I see that I have not had another specimen of this map since I sold this specimen 33 years ago. At the time it had come from a complete copy of Kitchin’s Pocket Atlas that I was splitting
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19th Century - Early Hand Colouring
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Oxfordshire, Samuel Lewis 1845
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Lewis' Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales
31610 Oxfordshire, Samuel Lewis, 1845. Price: 25.00
OXFORDSHIRE. A county map drawn by R. Creighton and engraved by J. & C. Walker. Reference to the Unions. Scale and compass rose. 7 x 9 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Good clean condition. Straight from the atlas and not sold as a single map before now.
From: Lewis' Atlas to the Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales
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Titlepage, Samuel Lewis 1845
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Early 19th Century - Original Hand Colouring
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Oxfordshire, John Cary, 1802
31716 Oxfordshire, John Cary, 1802. Price: 50.00
OXFORDSHIRE A well engraved detailed map of the county with title panel and compass rose combined. Scale. Imprint of John Cary dated 1793. With original page of descriptive text. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition. I have dated this map 1802 because the many of the other maps in the atlas were watermarked with the date of 1802. The title page of the atlas is dated 1793.
From: Cary's New and Correct English Atlas
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19th Century
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Oxfordshire, John Cary, 1802
32328 Oxfordshire, George Wahington Bacon, 1896. Price: 20.00
OXFORDSHIRE REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY. DIVIDED INTO 5 MILE SQUARES. A good detailed late 19th century colour printed map of county. Shows the railways. 12 x 18 inches. Small split at one end of the centre fold otherwise good condition.
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Late 18th Century - Early Hand Colouring
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Map of Oxfordshire, John Cary, 1792
32544 Oxfordshire, John Cary, 1792. Price: 14.00
OXFORDSHIRE. Small engraved map of the county. Tile panel surmounted by half compass rose. Panel at bottom with list of distances from London. Publisher’s imprint beneath dated 1792. 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Thin paper. Original outline hand colouring. Good condition.
From: Cary’s Traveller’s Companion
Titlepage dated 1791, maps dated 1792. The atlas was formerly in the Mumbee family library - titlepage stamped V. Munbee
Provenance
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Cary titlepage and Mumbee Bookplate
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Early 17th Century
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Oxfordshire by Pieter van den Keere, c.1627
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Pieter van den Keere Atlas Titlepage, c.1627
32636 Oxfordshire, Pieter van den Keere, c.1627. Price: 48.00
OXFORDSHIRE A early engraved miniature map of the county. Embellished with decorative cartouches which display the title and scale. Numbered 22. 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches. A clean undamaged uncoloured specimen. The printing is slightly askew so there are tapering blank margins on the top and bottom with some trimming to the map in the bottom right hand corner. On verso is the start of a description of the county in English. This continues with two additional original double sided pages which completes the text for the county. What you will see from the illustration is a vertical fault in the centre of the map. This was a crack in the printing plate that was first seen in 1627 and which continued for another two editions before a new plate was engraved for Oxfordshire for the 1662 edition. Straight from the atlas and not previously sold as a single map. The title page of the atlas is dated 1627
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