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56. BLAEU, Joan OXONIUM Comitatus, Vulgo Oxfordshire [c.1645]. 385mm x 505mm. A fine, engraved, hand-coloured map of Ox - fordshire by one of the most famous cartographers of the peri- od. 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. [45527] £950 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 Ter- rarum in 1645. LITERATURE: BLAEU, Joan Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1645) 57. JANSSON, Jan OXONIUM COMITATUS VULGO OXFORD SHIRE [c.1646]. 385mm x 490mm. Original hand-coloured engraved map by Jan Jansson. Details include hills, parklands, and woodlands, as well as towns and villages. A very good, bright double-page map with central fold. [45526] £1,250 Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664) was a famed cartographer and print publisher. More commonly known as Jan Jansson, he was born in Arn- hem and in 1612 married the daughter of the cartographer and publish- er Jodocus Hondius. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then
onwards, produced a very large number of maps which went some way to rival those of the Blaeu family, who held a virtual monopoly over the industry. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in- law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions of the Mercator-Hon- dius atlases to which his name was added. Eleven of Janssonius’s county maps originally appeared in his Appendix Atlantis to the Mer- cator-Hondius atlas, first published in German in 1636. Janssonius lat- er re-drew his county maps, adding many more for publication in his Atlas Novus in 1646. LITERATURE: Janssonius, Joannes Atlas Novus 1646 1646 58. [SPEED, John] OXFORDSHIRE Described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ty famous University Ao 1605. Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, [1676]. 390mm x 523mm. Copperplate engraved map with hand-colour- ing. Crests of the Oxford colleges down both sides with and de- tailed map of Oxford with key to landmarks below to the upper right corner. Coat of arms to upper left. Two robed scholars aside a globe at the base. Main towns highlighted in red and parks in green. Window mounted to show the text on Oxfordshire on the reverse of the map. A near fine map, bright and crisp, with a central crease. [45535] £2,250 An attractive and desirable view of Oxfordshire, taken from the first world atlas by an Englishman, John Speed’s ‘The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine’.
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