Considerations geographical and physical on the new discoveries north of the Great Sea, commonly called the South Sea; with maps relative thereto

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  Voyages round the World : with selected sketches of voyages to the South Seas, north and south Pacific oceans, China, etc

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  An autograph manuscript of Edmund Fanning's memoir "Voyages round the world...;" it includes a title page, introduction, and chapters I-XXV. The manuscript is written in both pen and pencil, on various sizes of paper, with corrections and additions; it is incomplete with some chapters missing. In addition to the manuscript, there are unidentified supplementary autograph notes and a draft of Fanning's proposal to Congress for the opening of trade with New South Wales.

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  Map of the north-east part of Siberia : to illustrate the narrative of the expedition to the Polar Sea in 1820, 21, 22 & 23 commanded by Lieut. Ferdinand Von Wrangell of the Russian Imperial Navy

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  From the English translation (Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea: in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 & 1823. Commanded by Lieutenant, now Admiral, Ferdinand von Wrangell ... Ed. by Major Edward Sabine. London: J. Madden and Co., 1840: translated from G. Engelhardt's German translation of the then unpublished Russian manuscript.) of Wrangel's account of his over-ice journey along the northern coast of Siberia. From the mouth of the Kolyma River he explored northward and eastward over several winters reaching as far east as Koliutchin Island, a known whaling port island. Along the way he described "Mountains visible from C. Jakan in clear summer weather." He himself never saw them, relying on native reports. Some forty years later Wrangel Island would be discovered and named by an American whaler who may have been familiar with this map. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: LC 05024476//r20. Verso Text: MS note: Belongs to RB Book #475.

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  Map of the discoveries on the north coast of America, effected by the officers of the Hudson Bay Company from 1836 to 1839 [cartographic material]

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  Manuscript map showing the discoveries of Dease and Simpson from Cape Barrow to Boothia.

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  New & Exact Map of the Coast, Countries and Islands within the Limits of the South Sea Company from the River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence through the South Sea, to the North Part of California &c. With a View of the General and Coasting Trade-Winds. And particular Draughts of the most important Bays, Ports. &ce. According to the Newest Observations, By Herman Moll Geographer

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  Kashnor notes, "This is one of the earliest English maps to locate Mount Nevada in California, where are also located New Albion, Monterey, Port Sir Francis Drake, Mount St. Martin." Moll rails against French mapmakers at the bottom of this map. Note detailed map of Pepy's Island (nonexistent.) McLaughlin dates as [1711], notes this map as State 2 and gives appeared in information. Twelve submaps. Isle Chiloe, Bay of Guiaquil, Port of Baldivia, Chart from England to the Ananoca, Peypes or Pepys Island, Straits of Magellan, Isthmus of Darien, Gallapagos Islands, Juan Fernandez Island, Gulf of Nicoya, Gulf of Ampalla, Port of Acapulco.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. References: McLaughlin 181; Phillips 554; Wagner 498.. Verso Text: MS note: 192..

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  The dangerous voyage : of Capt. Thomas James, in his intended discovery of a north west passage into the South Sea: ... To which is added, a map for sailing in those seas: also divers tables ... With an appendix concerning the longitude, by Master Gellibrand

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  A new & correct map of the whole world : showing the situation of its principal parts, viz. the oceans, kingdoms, rivers, capes, ports, mountains, woods, trade winds, monsoons, variation of the compass, climats, &c with the most remarkable tracks of the bold attempts which have been made to find out the North East and North West Passages the projection of this map is call'd Mercator's the design is to make it useful both for land and sea and it is laid down with all possible care, according to the newest and most exact observations / by Herman Moll, Geographer

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  Gift of Mrs. Homer Cotty, November 1991. Note the "Advertisement" with particularly damning review of Moses Pitt's new English Atlas. Cartouche: Figures Submaps: North Pole; Trade Winds. MS note: gmsd $25.00. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: yvx4 15-.

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