Large 4to. xxix, [1 errata], 347 pp., half-title, folding engraved frontis map, modern blue cloth, title gilt on faded spine, Unopened, With an appendix, containing an enquiry into the best method of improving the geography of the Anabasis, &c. Explained by three maps (LACKING 2 maps), bookplate of Bath Municipal Reference Library on front fly leaf, blind stamp on title page, shelf reference on lower spine, W. Bulmer and Co, London, first edition, 1816.

Synopsis

Major James Rennell, was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. He produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal. Rennell has been called the Father of Indian Geography and as the Father of Oceanography. In 1830 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London.
He also contributed papers to Archaeologia on the site of Babylon, the island of St Paul’s shipwreck, and the landing-place of Caesar in Britain. Rennell published a book titled Memoir of a map of Hindoostan (1788).
His plan for a comprehensive study of western Asia resulted in a two-volume study of the geography of Herodotus and A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia (1831), among other works.