(VINCENT, William.) The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates.
Collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern; Containing an Account of the First Navigation Attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean ... to which are Added Three Dissertations: Two, on the Acronychal Rising of the Pleiades, by ... Samuel Horsley ... and by Mr. William Wales ... and one by Mr. De La Rochette, on the First Meridian of Ptolemy.
4to. (275 * 215mm), engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved maps (4 folding), charts as listed in directions to the Bookbinder, 2 errata, pp. 530. Bound in contemporary calf, re-backed with green label. Published by T. Cadell and W. Davies (London), 1797.
Browning to the endpapers, occasional light spotting and browning to the text, a little offsetting from the maps, 4 pp. with brief and neat ink inscriptions, a small area of loss to the upper right portion of pp. 445 (not affecting any text). Very good.
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Collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern; Containing an Account of the First Navigation Attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean ... to which are Added Three Dissertations: Two, on the Acronychal Rising of the Pleiades, by ... Samuel Horsley ... and by Mr. William Wales ... and one by Mr. De La Rochette, on the First Meridian of Ptolemy.
4to. (275 * 215mm), engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved maps (4 folding), charts as listed in directions to the Bookbinder, 2 errata, pp. 530. Bound in contemporary calf, re-backed with green label. Published by T. Cadell and W. Davies (London), 1797.
Browning to the endpapers, occasional light spotting and browning to the text, a little offsetting from the maps, 4 pp. with brief and neat ink inscriptions, a small area of loss to the upper right portion of pp. 445 (not affecting any text). Very good.
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
Collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern; Containing an Account of the First Navigation Attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean ... to which are Added Three Dissertations: Two, on the Acronychal Rising of the Pleiades, by ... Samuel Horsley ... and by Mr. William Wales ... and one by Mr. De La Rochette, on the First Meridian of Ptolemy.
4to. (275 * 215mm), engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved maps (4 folding), charts as listed in directions to the Bookbinder, 2 errata, pp. 530. Bound in contemporary calf, re-backed with green label. Published by T. Cadell and W. Davies (London), 1797.
Browning to the endpapers, occasional light spotting and browning to the text, a little offsetting from the maps, 4 pp. with brief and neat ink inscriptions, a small area of loss to the upper right portion of pp. 445 (not affecting any text). Very good.
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.