Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; or The Mogul's Empire: With an Examination of some Positions in the Former System of Indian Geography: And some Illustrations of the present one: And a Complete Index to the Names of the Map (First Edition)
by James Rennell, F.R.S
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FIRST edition, extremely scarce copy, modern cloth backed boards, occasional spotting, foxing and soiling, quarto, complete copy with all maps in great condition, pages internally clean.
Note- The Map of India was not originally included in the FIRST edition, and was included in the third edition onwards.
Overall condition-Very good or better.
James Rennell, often called "the Father of Oceanography", was the surveyor general of Bengal. In 1767 Lord Robert Clive, the then Governor of Bengal and Bihar, appointed him as surveyor-general of the East India Company's dominions in Bengal. Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and his Map of Hindootan is "the first approximately correct map of India". He oversaw the earliest maps of the course of the Ganges, British Bengal and published his famous Bengal atlas in 1780.
His Map of Hindoostan was published in 1782, and three editions of his accompanying Memoir of a map of Hindoostan appeared between 1783 and 1793. This is the FIRST edition of his memoir accompanying the map that he published a year earlier.
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- H-136
- Title
- Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan; or The Mogul's Empire
- Author
- James Rennell, F.R.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by M. Brown, for the Author
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1783
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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