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 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 artista
    William Vincent (Londres, 2 de novembro de 1739 - Islip, 21 de dezembro de 1815) foi reitor de Westminster de 1803 a 1815. Ele nasceu em Londres, o quinto filho de Giles Vincent e sua esposa Sarah. William estudou na Westminster School e, após a universidade, voltou para lá como porteiro, ou tutor, e eventualmente se tornou mestre-chefe de 1788 a 1802. Ele foi ordenado em 1762 e foi nomeado prebendário de Westminster em 1801. Ele também foi Reitor de St. John's Westminster e de Islip em Oxfordshire. Vincent foi decano de Westminster entre 1802-1815. Ele solicitou ao Parlamento fundos para restaurar a pedra em ruínas da capela de Henrique VII e, em 1810, cercou cerca de dez acres de Tothill Fields para o uso dos alunos da Westminster School. Vincent morreu em Islip em 21 de dezembro de 1815 e foi sepultado na Capela de São Bento, na Abadia de Westminster. Seus principais escritos foram sobre a geografia antiga, como The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea (aparecendo em duas partes em 1800 e 1805) e The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 vols., Publicado em 1807).

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