= Rare first edition in print of the manuscript journal kept by Rennell during his survey of the Ganges between 1764 and 1767, edited by Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1855-1938). Rennell 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 Oceanography. In 1830, he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London. The early volumes of the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal are among the most important early works on South and Southeast Asian studies. Published by the Asiatic Society in Calcutta under Sir William Jones, they mark the beginning of modern Oriental scholarship. These volumes cover a wide range of subjects, including linguistics and philology, religion and philosophy, history and archeology, natural sciences, ethnography and cultural history. Some other chapters/ pamphlets include: Archibald Rose - Lisu (Yawgin) Tribes of the Burma-China Frontier; F.H. Malyon - Some current Pudhtu Stories; James Hornell - The Chank Bangle Industry; its Antiquity and present Condition; Mahamahopadhyaya Harapsasad Shastri - Catuhsatika by Arya Deva; H. Hosten - Jesuit Letters and Allied Papers on Mogor, Tibet, Bengal and Burma. Part I. Anthony Monserrate - Mongolicae Legations Commentarius, or the First Jesuit Mission to Akbar (Part II we also have on sale, bound up in volume 5 of this series (sold separately). We also have volumes 1, 2 and 5 available. Library cancellation-stamp on upper pastedown and title.