Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l’Indostan [18th Cdentury Maps of Hindoostan]. Atlas only. First edition.
Paris: chez Poignée, An VIII (1793). 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....
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