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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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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 London: J. Madden and Co., 1840: translated from G. Engelhardt's German translation of the then unpublished Russian manuscript.)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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Manuscripts
Manuscript map showing the discoveries of Dease and Simpson from Cape Barrow to Boothia.
mssHM 15401
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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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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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