Antique Maps of Oxfordshire

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.

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

OXFORDSHIRE DIVIDED INTO ITS HUNDREDS CONTAINING TOWNS &C BY EMAN: BOWEN GEOGR. TO HIS MAJESTY.

Engraved map of the county. 6 3/4 x 8 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

OXFORDSHIRE described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ye famous University Ao. 1605.

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

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

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

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

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

Provenance: John Hobson Matthews

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

From: England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described

OXFORDSHIRE

Pages 373 to 390 inclusive describing the county of Oxfordshire in English. About 13 x 8 inches. Good condition.

From: Camden’s Britannia

MAP OF THE COUNTY OF OXFORD from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1831 & 1832 BY C. & J. GREENWOOD...

A fine detailed county map embellished with good calligraphy and a large uncoloured vignette view of Oxford Cathedral. List of hundreds. 27 x 22 inches, 700 x 575 mm. Original outline and wash colouring. This is a folding map. In sections and mounted on linen with green linen edging. Tab on one edge titled Oxfordshire. Some light foxing but otherwise good condition.

The map also appeared in Atlas of the Counties of England

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

OXFORD

A detailed chromolithograph map of the county. Explanation plus statistics concerning Population, Area, Inhabited Houses, Poor Rate and Paupers. 15 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches. Original centre fold. Imprint of Letts & Son beneath. Fine clean condition. Straight from the atlas so never previously been sold as a single map.

From: Lett’s Popular County Atlas

27/28/29/30 A double sided road map. One side shows the Road from Reading to Wallingford and then onto Oxford. Good detail. The other side shows the route from Middleton and Bicester to Brackley and then to Towcester and Northampton. Each 3 1/4 x 6 inches. The name of Carington Bowles and the date of 1785 appears beneath each map. Hand coloured and in a sunk mount. Fine condition. From: Paterson’s British Itinerary being a new and accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Great Britain.