Year/Century: 18th century
Language: French
Subject: Illustrated
Binding: Hardcover
Description: Historical research on the awareness that the ancients had of the outside world and the commercial developments with a portion of the world before the breakdown at the Passage through the Bonne-Esperance cap. Translation of the English language. William Paris ROBERTSON; 1792 Dimensions: 5 by 8 1/4"; viii-536 pages; 2 maps First French edition (1791), first published in English, regarding the knowledge the ancients possessed of India and their trade connections with the nation prior to Vasco de Gama's 1498 circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope. Information on the arts, sciences, religious organizations, etc., can be found in the Appendix. Two folding maps of Southeast Asia are used as illustrations (one after Ptolemy). Written by W. Robertson (1721–1793), the principal of the University of Edinburgh and a Scottish historian and anthropologist. - Cox I:304, ref. - Source: manuscript entry by Albert Prion. 19th-century red paper cardboard binding, gilt-titled flat spine, marbled edges Good condition, inner margin of title strengthened, minor foxing Text in French
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