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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  • Sur l'oeuvre d'art
    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.
  • Sur l'artiste
    William Vincent (Londres, 2 novembre 1739 - Islip, 21 décembre 1815) était doyen de Westminster de 1803 à 1815. Il est né à Londres, le cinquième fils de Giles Vincent et de sa femme Sarah. William a étudié à la Westminster School et, après l'université, y est retourné comme huissier, ou tuteur, et est finalement devenu maître en chef de 1788 à 1802. Il avait été ordonné en 1762 et a été nommé prébendaire de Westminster en 1801. Il était également recteur de St John's Westminster et d'Islip dans l'Oxfordshire. Vincent était doyen de Westminster entre 1802-1815. Il demanda au Parlement des fonds pour restaurer les pierres en ruine de la chapelle d'Henri VII et, en 1810, il renferma environ dix acres de Tothill Fields à proximité à l'usage des savants de la Westminster School. Vincent mourut à Islip le 21 décembre 1815 et fut inhumé dans la chapelle Saint-Benoît, dans l'abbaye de Westminster. Ses principaux écrits portaient sur la géographie ancienne, tels que The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea (apparaissant en deux parties en 1800 et 1805) et The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 vol., Publié en 1807).

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océan IndienMonde arabeMerAventurePéninsule arabique et États du GolfeCarte (géographique)Monde islamiqueVoyage
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