Major James Rennell (14 results)

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Condition: Very Good. 17 pages. This is an article from The Westminster Review. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Westminster Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Early 19th C, travel narratives describing Persia (modern Iran), Armenia, Anatolia, and the Ottoman world. Complete, 2 tours in 2 volumes, 48 leaves with 52 plates, maps & illustrations along with 47 wood engravings within text, first editions of both works (1812 & 1818), large-paper issues, with the plates on india paper. Uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1812, 1st ed, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 23 pls on19 leaves (includes folding, 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps), 47 wood engravings within text, t.e.g., some light offsetting, spotting and toning, more so in Vol 1, tidemark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p136 more heavily spotted & browned, red marbled endpapers. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). Signatures [3], b-b4, [c2]only, B-3K4. [7], (viii-xix), [1], B1-3K2. (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5). SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James. RENNELL J Major. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First editions of both works (1812 & 1818); large-paper issue of the first, with the plates on india paper. Two volumes uniformly bound in half green morocco over green morocco cloth, decorative gilt tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, sunned, raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1st ed, large paper, folding map frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1] pl list, [1] errata, [1], 2-438 pp, [2] adverts, 24 pls (including 3 folding maps). Vol 2, The Second Journey, 1st edition, 1818, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xix), [1] errata, [1], 2-435, 19 pls (includes 4 hand coloured & 2 engraved maps 1 folding), 47 wood engravings within text. (V1, 306*243 & V2, 310*244 mm). T.e.g., some light offsetting to a few text leaves, variable spotting and toning to some plates (generally light), tide-mark to upper inner corner of plates facing pp. 50 and 74, folding plate facing p. 136 more heavily spotted and browned, red marbled endpapers. Provenance: West Dean library, Chichester, Sussex (labels to front pastedowns). (Abbey Travel 357 & 358; Atabey 836 & 837; Macro Arabian Peninsula 1636 & 1637). Atabey's collation calls for a half-title in the first work, though this is lacking in the copy there described as well as the present copy, and is not mentioned in Abbey's collation. 'In retirement Morier pursued the writing career which was far more to his taste than diplomacy and on which he had already made a start. His two travel books, A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor (1812) and A Second Journey (1818), both met with critical acclaim and were welcomed by a public which knew little of these areas' (ODNB). A Journey through Persia contains an appendix relating to the Persian Gulf, headed 'Arab pirates' (pp. 371-5). SUTHERLAND James Captain. MORIER James Mr. RENNELL J Major. (illustrator).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. This map is a page from the first English edition of The Journal of Frederick Horneman's Travels, from Cairo to Mourzouk. Published in London by G. and W. Nicol in 1802, this version included significant geographical illustrations by renowned cartographer Major James Rennell. In this edition, the main journal of Frederick Horneman's travels concludes on page 119. The section that follows contains several appendices and "Geographical Illustrations" written by Rennell. Horneman was the first European in modern times to traverse the north-eastern Sahara, making his first edition a highly sought-after item for collectors of African exploration. This was the first detailed European map of Siwah (the "Oasis of Ammon") based on first-hand modern observation. The map is intended to illustrate the descriptions of the ancient Temple of Jupiter Ammon ruins mentioned in the text. The image itself is described in a scholarly essay as coming from a drawing by a Marabut (scholar) of the indigenous Hausawa people and is thought to be the oldest native spatial conception of their West African homeland, Kasar Hausa. A quote from Hornemann reads: "As to what the inhabitants themselves call Hausa, I had as I think, very certain information. One of them, Marabut (scholar), gave me a drawing of the situation of the different regions bordering on each other, which I here give as I received it." This copy shows the indentation of the copper plate used to print Rennell's illustration and the paper contains the watermark of the papermill - JW HATMAN 1801- which verifies its source being the first English edition from 1802. The paper is bright with borders untrimmed and features the wide margins of the original quarto format there is some minor foxing to the upper right edge of the page (as photographed). Major James Rennell (illustrator).…

Couverture rigide. Condition: 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.…

Brown Cloth. Condition: Good. No dj. First Edition. Two volume set without the accompanying folio atlas volume. Royal College of Surgeons Ireland library stamps, bindings very worn and darkened, still servicable with some loss at spine ends, hinges not splitting.Text blocks in good order with some dustiness and darkening to edges. Paper spine labels now dark brown and hard to make out. lxiii+390pp, vii+420pp. Size: 8vo.…

First edition. iv, [2], 148pp. With a portrait plate, a folding facsimile of two pages of the journal, and a large folding map of Bengal. Later green cloth. Lightly rubbed. Leaves browned, coloured pencil shelf-marks to title page, some marginal insect damage to lower corner of text-block, facsimile torn at folds. The sole edition of the first appearance in print of the manuscript journal of cartographer James Rennell (1742- 1830), kept during his survey of the Ganges between 1764 and 1767, edited by Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1855-1938), member of the Geological Survey of India and the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Rennell, often referred to as the 'The father of Indian geography', served with both the East India Company's marine and military as surveyor and draughtsman, for whom he produced his major work A Bengal Atlas (1781) which remained the standard administrative map of Bengal for close to fifty years. Size: Quarto.…

Condition: 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. …

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.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1764. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: : - 63, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 63 63.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1831. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 434, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 434 434.…