Rennell major james (6 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.…

Calcutta, Printed at the Baptist Mission Press and published by the Asiatic Society, 1910, IV,99-148 pag., portrait, large folding facsimile and large folding map of Bengal and Bahar (54 x 75 cm.), contemporary gilt green cloth with marbled board covers, quarto. - (total volume pagination: 914, (6),710 pag.), plates. = Rare first edition in print of the manuscript journal kept by Rennell during his survey of the Ganges between 1764 and 1767, edited by Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1855-1938). Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal. Rennell has been called the Father of Oceanography. In 1830, he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London. The early volumes of the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal are among the most important early works on South and Southeast Asian studies. Published by the Asiatic Society in Calcutta under Sir William Jones, they mark the beginning of modern Oriental scholarship. These volumes cover a wide range of subjects, including linguistics and philology, religion and philosophy, history and archeology, natural sciences, ethnography and cultural history. Some other chapters/ pamphlets include: Archibald Rose - Lisu (Yawgin) Tribes of the Burma-China Frontier; F.H. Malyon - Some current Pudhtu Stories; James Hornell - The Chank Bangle Industry; its Antiquity and present Condition; Mahamahopadhyaya Harapsasad Shastri - Catuhsatika by Arya Deva; H. Hosten - Jesuit Letters and Allied Papers on Mogor, Tibet, Bengal and Burma. Part I. Anthony Monserrate - Mongolicae Legations Commentarius, or the First Jesuit Mission to Akbar (Part II we also have on sale, bound up in volume 5 of this series (sold separately). We also have volumes 1, 2 and 5 available. Library cancellation-stamp on upper pastedown and title. …

Ril pelle intera cm. 22x26,8, pp 295, 51 di indice e 4 mappe.Seconda edizione del famoso libro geografico del 1783 sulla storia e geografia dell'Hindustan. In anastatica le due grandi carte a colori del 1783 con cartiglio allora vendute separatamente. Inoltre 4 preziose carte coeve (tre ripiegate). Rennell fu promosso da Clive Surveyor General dei Domini inglesi in India. …

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. 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.…