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[ANTARCTIC-SECOND BYRD EXPEDITION] [ENGLISH, LIEUTENANT ROBERT A. J.] Reconnaissance Map. King Edward VII Land. The Northern Part of Marie Byrd Land.
New York: The American Geographical Society of New York, 1933. Color printed map, signed in ink by Lieutenant Robert A. J. English and profusely annotated in pencil and ink, originally published in The Geographical Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, 1933; Sheet measures 13 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches (34.5 x 45 cm). Old folds, light toning, soiling, creasing, small chips along top edge, a few short edge tears, and dog ears to corners. Together with BYRD, RICHARD E. Discovery. The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First edition, signed by the author on limitation page. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt. xxi, [3], 395 pp., illustrated. Spine toned, without dust jacket, moderate wear, contents clean and bright; HILL, JOE and DAVIS HILL, OLA. In Little America With Byrd. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1937. Signed and inscribed by the co-authors. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Rubbing and wear to cloth, spine lean, hinges a bit loose; And: ADAMS, LIEUTENANT ADAMS. Beyond the Barrier with Byrd.Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1932. Publisher's cloth, printed dust jacket. Light edgewear, corners bumped, dust jacked is bright with some chips to edges, mostly at spine, contents toned.
Lieutenant Robert A. J. English commanded the ship Bear of Oakland on Admiral Richard Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition of 1935. This printed map, which show one of Byrd's flights during his first Antarctic expedition, is signed and annotated by Lieutenant English. The pencil annotations include the course of The Bear of Oakland on February 7th and 8th, 1935. The course corresponds to the description of the ship's arduous voyage through the ice to the Northeast from the Bay of Whales, as described on pages 107-109 in Byrd's book Discovery. The annotations also show the locations of various camps and their commanding officers, such as that of Senior Meteorologist William Haines, as well as corrections to the mapping of certain geographical features in Antarctica, such as the positions of The Rockefeller Mountains and parts of the continent's coastline. It is quite possible that this map was on The Bear of Oakland during the voyage, used as a working map for English to record his course, his colleages locations, and the inconsistencies that he was able to record between previously published maps of the region and what he observed while on site.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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