Author: Rennell, Major James, (1742-1830) Alexandre; Blondeau (fl.1798-1828); Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu (1746 - 1816) , engravers; Jean Nicolas Buache, (editor)
Title: Recueil de Cartes Géographiques Pour la Description de L'Indostan [18th Cdentury Maps of Hindoostan]. Atlas Only. First Edition
Description: 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.. Expertise by : Danyela PETITOT 40 avenue de Ségur - 75015 Paris. .

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