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Loggan, David.
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Oxonia Illustrata. Oxford: e theatro Sheldoniano, 1675
first edition, folio (448 x 297mm.), engraved throughout, pictorial title, 3 preliminary leaves, double-page map, 39 double-page plates, one folding, index of plates at end, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining original spine
Provenance
Sir Henry Mainwaring Bart. (1726-1797) of Peover Hall, Cheshire, armorial bookplate; Edward Chapman M.A., Magdalen College, Oxford, armorial bookplate and book label (Chapman was a science tutor and also for a time a Member of Parliament who became Secretary to the British Medical Congress in 1890 and was also Chairman of the Great Central Railway.); Thomas Case (1844-1925), President of Corpus Christi College and later Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, ownership inscription (see ODNB)
Literature
Wing L2838
Catalogue Note
a fine tall clean copy with wide margins, containing engraved views of Oxford in the seventeenth century. This work was intended partly as a companion volume to Anthony Wood's Historia et antiquitates universitatis oxoniensis (1674).