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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William Vincent

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  • Sobre la obra de arte
    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.
  • Sobre el artista
    William Vincent (Londen, 2 de noviembre de 1739 - Islip, 21 de diciembre de 1815) fue Decano de Westminster de 1803 a 1815. Nació en Londres, el quinto hijo de Giles Vincent y su esposa Sarah. William estudió en la escuela de Westminster y después de la universidad regresó allí como acomodador o tutor, y finalmente se convirtió en director de 1788 a 1802. Había sido ordenado en 1762 y prebendado de Westminster en 1801. También fue rector de St John's Westminster y de Islip en Oxfordshire. Vincent fue Decano de Westminster entre 1802-1815. Pidió al Parlamento fondos para restaurar la mampostería desmoronada de la capilla de Enrique VII y en 1810 encerró unos diez acres de los campos cercanos de Tothill para el uso de los estudiosos de la escuela de Westminster. Vincent murió en Islip el 21 de diciembre de 1815 y fue enterrado en la Capilla de San Benito, Abadía de Westminster. Sus principales escritos fueron sobre geografía antigua, como The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea (que aparece en dos partes en 1800 y 1805) y The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 vols., Publicado en 1807).

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Libros y mapasLibros Antiguos
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Océano ÍndicoMundo árabeMarAventurasPenínsula Arábiga y Estados del GolfoMapa (geográfico)Mundo islámicoViaje
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