Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
[OXFORD.] Loggan, David. Oxonia Illustrata sive Omnium Celeberrimae Istius Universitatis. Engraved title-page, three engraved preliminary leaves, double-page engraved plan and 39 double-page engraved views (one folding), engraved index leaf. Folio, 17x12 inches, contemporary gilt paneled red morocco, light wear at extremities, spine darkened; generally clean with occasional light spotting, few short marginal tears. Bookplate of Robert Walsingham Martin. Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1675

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Intended as a companion to Anthony Wood's Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis published in 1674, the work comprises the finest engraved views of Oxford, its colleges and public buildings printed in the seventeenth-century.