Being an Essay towards the Natural History of England
The Natural History of Oxfordshire Being an Essay towards the Natural History of England
Paul P. B. Minet, 1972.
Facsimile edition. 4to. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, gilt map outline of Oxfordshire, in original publisher's slipcase. Sixteen full page black and white plates, frontis portrait of the author and fold out map. A fine copy, clean and bright. Publisher's slipcase worn at the extremities.
Plot's Oxfordshire was the direct result of the author's systematic study of natural history and antiquities in Oxfordshire from 1670 to the book's publication in 1677. The work includes a wide range of Oxfordshire fossils, rocks and minerals. It also includes the first known illustration of a dinosaur bone (thought by Plot to be the bone of a giant), and lead to the formation of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, with Plot as its first Keeper.
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