Approaches to Port Victoria, Indian Ocean, Seychelles, Mahé Island / surveyed by Commander A. F. Balfour, Assisted by Lieut.ts C. H. Simpson, W. V. S. Howard & H. C. Lockyer, H. M. Surveying Ship Stork, 1890. [British Admiralty hydrographic charts of the world, 722.]
by [A. F. Balfour]; [Great Britain. Hydrographic Department]
- Used
- Condition
- With addition toponyms in pencil and ink, mathematical notes at the margins in pencil, and marks in red and yellow ink in Fauvel
- Seller
-
Budapest, Hungary
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Scarce sea chart of Port Victoria and contiguous regions, published by the British Admiralty, with notes by Fauvel.
Nautical chart of Port Victoria on Mahé Island of the Seychelles archipelago, with depths shown by bathymetric isolines and soundings, relief shown by spot heights, includes coastal profile, published by the British Admiralty, who produced nautical charts since 1795 under the auspices of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.
With handwritten added information by Albert-Auguste Fauvel (1851-1909), the French explorer and naturalist, and the author of the first monograph of the Seychelles Islands, Unpublished Documents on the History of the Seychelles Islands Anterior to 1810 (Mahé, 1909), which also included is a listing of early maps of the Seychelles and 38 of them had been reproduced and published in a separate portfolio.
Provenance: From the estate of Albert-Auguste Fauvel.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Foldvaribooks (HU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2820
- Title
- Approaches to Port Victoria, Indian Ocean, Seychelles, Mahé Island / surveyed by Commander A. F. Balfour, Assisted by Lieut.ts C. H. Simpson, W. V. S. Howard & H. C. Lockyer, H. M. Surveying Ship Stork, 1890. [British Admiralty hydrographic charts of the world, 722.]
- Author
- [A. F. Balfour]; [Great Britain. Hydrographic Department]
- Format/Binding
- Engraved map. Scale 1:12,093 (E 55°29'/S 4°37')
- Book Condition
- Used - With addition toponyms in pencil and ink, mathematical notes at the margins in pencil, and marks in red and yellow ink in Fauvel
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Published at the Admiralty, under the Superintendence of Captain W. J. L. Wharton, R. N : F. R. S : Hydrographer, Sold by J. D.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
Terms of Sale
Foldvaribooks
As members of The Hungarian Antiquarian Bookseller's Association (MAE) we are also members ILAB-LILA(International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and hence obliged to follow their Code of Ethic .
About the Seller
Foldvaribooks
About Foldvaribooks
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...