Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent
Go Back Ancient voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, reconstructing their routes and reproducing ancient European and Islamic maps, with references to pearling in Bahrain by William Vincent

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  • About the artwork
    The commerce and navigation of the ancients in the Indian Ocean …
    London, T. Cadell, W. Davies, 1807. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 aquatint frontispiece portraits, an aquatint plate, and 15 engraved plates with maps and nautical charts (12 folding), some by Alexander Dalrymple, some reproducing Islamic manuscript maps. Further with 2 folding letterpress tables. Modern half calf, marbled sides.

    Definitive second edition, revised, expanded and with additional maps, of a detailed scholarly study of ancient navigation in and cartography of the Indian Ocean, the Gulf region the Arabian peninsula and Ceylon, by William Vincent (1739-1815). Volume 1 is devoted to the 325 BCE voyage of Nearchus, a Macedonian General under Alexander the Great, from the mouth of the Indus River along the coasts of what are now Pakistan and Iran, into the Gulf. Vincent calls it "the first event of general importance to mankind in the history of navigation". The second volume continues with other classical sources for voyages to India and Ceylon, including Homer, Herodotus and Ptolemy, along with many less well known. It also covers Vasco de Gamba and other early Portuguese voyagers. An appendix on ancient maps of the world includes a map by Muhammad al-Idrisi (1099-1165/66) from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library. It also includes several references to pearl fishing in Bahrain and elsewhere.
    With stamp on both title-pages. With brown offsets from the ink of the plates onto the facing pages and a tear through the text of one leaf, but otherwise in good condition, with a few smaller and mostly marginal tears and tiny holes, a couple tears repaired on the folds of plates and other minor defects. A detailed study of ancient navigation in and around the Indian Ocean and the Gulf, with numerous excellent maps.
    Howgego N10; Goldsmith’s Lib. 19402; Kress Lib. B5275.
  • About the artist
    William Vincent (Londen, 2 November 1739 – Islip, 21 December 1815) was Dean of Westminster from 1803 to 1815. He was born in London, the fifth son of Giles Vincent and his wife Sarah. William studied at Westminster School and after university returned there as an usher, or tutor, and eventually became Head Master from 1788 to 1802. He had been ordained in 1762 and was made a prebendary of Westminster in 1801. He was also Rector of St John's Westminster and of Islip in Oxfordshire. Vincent was Dean of Westminster between 1802-1815. He petitioned Parliament for funds to restore the crumbling stonework of Henry VII's chapel and in 1810 he enclosed about ten acres of nearby Tothill Fields for the use of the scholars of Westminster School. Vincent died at Islip on 21 December 1815, and was buried in St. Benedict's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. His chief writings were on ancient geog-raphy, such as The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea (appearing in two parts in 1800 and 1805) and The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 vols., issued in 1807).