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Lot 218
[MAPS-POLAR EXPEDITION MAPS] Group of seven and one photograph.
Includes: [MORSE, SIDNEY EDWARDS]. Chart Showing The Recent Search for a North-West Passage. Also the Coast Explored in Search of Sir John Franklin, Between the Years 1848 and 1854. New York: 1854. Map with inset "Discoveries in and North of Wellington Channel by Lt. De Haven in Sept. 1850 and by Capt. Penny and his parties in Many, June, and July 1851," and with a tracing of Capt. Collinson's 1851-3 search for the lost HMS Erebus and HMS Terror of Capt. John Franklin. 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in (26 x 37.5 cm) to the neatline. Faintly toned; BONNE, [RIGOBERT]. Carte de l'Entree de Norton, et du Detroit de Bhering ou l'on voit le Cap le Plus Oriental de l'Asie, et la Pointe la Plus Occidentale de l'Amerique. [Paris]: Bonne, [circa 1785]. Engraved map, hand-colored, central fold, matted. 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 in (23 x 35 cm) to the neatline; the route of Captain Cook's third voyage is shown; BONNE, [RIGOBERT]. Carte de la Cote n. o. de l'Amerique et de la Cote n. e. de l'Asie reconnues en 1778 et 1779. [Paris]: M. Bonne, [circa 1785]. Engraved map, hand-colored, central fold, matted, with inset "Plan de l'Entree de Nootka" by A Ance du Vaisseau. 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 in (23 x 35 cm) to the neatline; HOEN, A[UGUST] & CO. "Norvegia" Antarctic Expedition of 1929-30, commander H. Riiser-Larsen, in command. Baltimore: the American Geographical Society of New York, 1930. Lithographed map, with inset "Maps showing the new lands discovered by the expedition." 8 1/2 x 13 in (22 x 33 cm) to the neatline; VON DRYGALSKI, DR. [ERICH]. Sketch Maps showing the Track & Explorations of the German South Polar Expedition 1902-3. This a photograph of the map published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1904; AMUNDSEN, R[OALD]. Routes of Captain R. Amundsen's South Polar Expedition 1911-12. [London]: the Royal Geographical Society, 1913. Lithographed map, central fold, with inset map of Antarctica and surrounding oceans. 12 x 15 in (31 x 38 cm) to the neatline. Folding creases, with two perforated library stamps; Arctic Regions. Lithographed map, central fold, with routes of 19th century arctic exploration printed over in red. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in (21.5 x 26.5 cm) to the neatline; HAMMOND, C. S. & CO. A broadside from the Newark Ledger from 1929 titled Our Flying Ambassadors and Th[e]ir Routes with two maps on the sheet and a portrait of Lindbergh, among others. 22 1/2 x 12 3/4 in (57 x 32 cm). Creasing along central fold, staining to margins.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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