Major james rennell (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon état. 2 volumes. In-8 21,5 x 13 cm. Reliures basane fauve, dos à faux-nerfs encadrés de petits fers dorés, plats encadrés d'un filet doré, LXIII-390-VII-420 pp., notes, index, table des matières. Fers et ex-libris Univ.Coll. Oxon. Reliures frottées, manques en tête de dos Vol. II. Texte en anglais.…

Zustand: Good. 4to. 22 x 28.3 cm. New half Sakora goat binding with marbled boards by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. Original spine label preserved. Provenance le Comte de Fortis, with his ex libris. 40pp., eleven fold-out maps of various sizes, 2 colored in outline.Very good and fresh. In-4;Avec 11 cartes la plupart dépliantes, certaines finement rehaussées de couleurs. "James Rennell was the greatest geographer that Great Britain had yet produced. His pre-eminence, as Sir Henry Yule said in 1881, is still undisputed. He was an explorer both by sea and land, a map compiler, a physical geographer, a critical and comparative geographer, and a hydrographer. Expertise by : Danyela PETITOT40 avenue de Ségur - 75015 Paris.…

Large engraved map on two conjoined sheets, with original outline colour, some light offset. size: 71.5 cm by 106.5 cm, sheet size: 76.5 cm by 115 cm. A large hand-coloured map showing the course of the Ganges across north-east India from present-day Bangladesh to New Delhi, with the territory of the Bengal Presidency highlighted in pink, and the Indian princely states shown in yellow. The title contained in a cartouche depicting Ganges seated with yak, crocodile and leopard under palm trees, a blessing ceremony in the foreground. Major James Rennell, FRS, FRSE, FRGS (1742-1830) was an East India Company officer, geographer, and pioneer of oceanography. As Surveyor General of Bengal, he produced the first accurate maps of the region and outlines of the Indian subcontinent. Rennell had earlier been tasked with surveying the river Ganges to find the shortest perennially navigable route to the Hooghly River and Calcutta avoiding the Murshidabad shallows.…