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![WHITTLESEY, Robert [After] Ralph AGAS Oxonia Antiqua Instaurata, sive Urbis & Academiae Oxoniensis Topographica delineatio olim a Rudolph Agas](https://omega.crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1366_1H.jpg)
Oxonia Antiqua Instaurata, sive Urbis & Academiae Oxoniensis Topographica delineatio olim a Rudolph Agas
impressa A.D. 1578 nunc denuo ari incisa A.D. MDCCXXVIII.
London,
E. Butler,
1728.
Eengraved birds-eye view, on two sheets joined, seventeen views of the Oxford colleges to borders.
650 by 960mm (25.5 by 37.75 inches).
1366
notes:
This detailed and elaborate plan of the city printed by E. Butler and dedicated to Henry Duke of Beaufort is the first and most important derivative plan of the city done by Ralph Agas in 1578. The 17 views of the Oxford colleges surrounding the plan were taken from drawings by John Bereblock (1566) prepared for the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Oxford.
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