THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF OXFORDSHIRE. WHEREIN, TO THE TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT GIVEN BY MR. CAMBDEN, AND THE LATE EDITORS OF HIS BRITANNIA, IS ADDED A MORE LARGE HISTORY, NOT ONLY OF THE CITIES, BOROUGHS, TOWNS, AND PARISHES MENTIONED BY THEM, BUT ALSO OF MANY OTHER PLACES OF NOTE, AND ANTIQUITIES SINCE DISCOVERED. TOGETHER WITH THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ACTIONS OF THE BRITAINS, ROMANS, SAXONS, DANES, AND NORMANS. AND THE PEDIGREES OF OUR NOBLE FAMILIES AND GENTRY, BOTH ANTIENT AND MODERN, ACCORDING TO THE BEST RELATIONS EXTANT
London: Elizabeth Nutt, 1720. Hardcover. Small quarto, 6.75 in. x 8.5 in., pp 209-508 (full pagination). Later binding in decorative red boards with black branch-like design. Gilt title and two thin gilt bars on spine. Title reads: "OXFORDSHIRE", "COX". Fine publisher's red speckle to edges. Fold-out map (6 in. x 9 in.) of Oxfordshire by Robert. Morden inserted opposite page 209. Double-column text. Boards have slight rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Spine and hinges tight. Interior pages clean, save occasional light foxing. Map clean and intact.
Former library copy with embossment to title page and map that reads: "Library of the Peabody Institute" (Johns Hopkins University). Front pastedown has red-framed 1.5" x 0.75" sticker in upper left corner that reads: "Withdrawn Jan 14 1953." Dewey decimal number "942.57 C878" is written on bottom of spine in rubbed white marker, and is written again in pencil on the title page. Owners' names in pencil on p. 508 and on following blank flyleaf. VERY GOOD PLUS. Item #85385
Volume 2 (of 6) of the "Magna Britannia" by Reverend Thomas Cox, 1655?-1734. The full six-volume work on the topography of England was published in monthly numbers as a supplement to the 'Atlas Geographus' (1711-1717).
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