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Chart of the Arctic Regions from the Admiralty Surveys

Description: Dedicated upper left: To Lady Franklin, This Sketch is Dedicated by her Obliged and Obedient Servant James Wyld. McClintock Channel and Victoria Strait not yet discovered. This is an earlier edition of map 093:011M. Reference chart lower right gives color key for areas of each explorer's influence.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Equidistant Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Date: ca. 1854
Call number: 105:015 M
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Chart of the Arctic Regions from the Admiralty Surveys

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Kashnor notes "Hemisphere, 15 in. diameter, colored, with the discoveries of McClure, Belcher, Roos, Back, Franklin and Richardson, Dease and Simpson, Rae, Kellet, and other Explorers." Dedicated upper left: To Lady Franklin, This Sketch is Dedicated by her Obliged and Obedient Servant James Wyld. McClintock Channel and Victoria Strait not yet discovered. See map 105:015M for an earlier edition of this map. Reference chart lower right gives color key for areas of each explorer's influence.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Equidistant Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Ms. note: No. 11.

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Chart of the New Coast of America and the N. E. Coast of Asia, explored in the years 1778 and 1779, prepared by Lieut. Henry Roberts, under the immediate inspection of Capt. Cook

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From title: The Interesting Discoveries made by the British and American ships since the first publication of this chart in 1784, Together with the Hydrographical Materials, lately procured from St. Petersburg and other places, have enabled Mr. De La Rochette to lay down the numerous improvements which appear in the Present Edition. Tracks of Cook's voyages, many notes. This is the 1794 Second Edition, see 093:015. See map 093:013M for 1808 edition. Vancouver Island not shown. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues, miles, wersts.. Projection: Equidistant Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. note: No. 17.

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Carte Générale de la Russie d'Asie et des Régions Polaires Boréales, par S. Brué, Geographe de J. A. R. Monsieuv

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Above neat line right; Atlas Universel Pl. 26. Below neat line left; Graveé sous la direction de l'Auteur. Engraved stamp upper left; Carte Encyprotipe du fonds de l'Auteur. Same as 093:010S, but with wider margins. Submap "Complément des Regions Polaires Boréalis." Shows area from Greenland to Hudson's Bay.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Equidistant Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 11 D 47..

105:011 M

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Chart of the New Coast of America and the N. E. Coast of Asia, explored in the years 1778 and 1779, prepared by Lieut. Henry Roberts, under the immediate inspection of Capt. Cook

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From title: The Interesting Discoveries made by the British and American ships since the first publication of this chart in 1784, Together with the Hydrographical Materials, lately procured from St. Petersburg and other places, have enabled Mr. De La Rochette to lay down the numerous improvements which appear in the Present Edition. Tracks of Cook's voyages, many notes. This is a later reprint of the 1794 Second Edition, see 093:015. Vancouver Island now correctly shown, labeled Wakash Nation. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues, miles, wersts.. Projection: Equidistant Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. note: No. 13.

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Discoveries of Capts. Ross, Parry & Franklin in the Arctic Regions in 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821 & 1822

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Kashnor notes, "showing Franklin's track from Lake Winnipeg along the Slave River to the Coppermine." MS note: c 1823. Four views: Iceberg in Baffins Baye. Burnets Inlet Barrows Strait. First view of the Coppermine River. Views of the land on South side of Scoresby's Sod. [Sound] Tracks of explorers routes hand colored.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 23.

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A Chart of the World according to Mercator's Projection wherein are shown the Latest Discoveries By Samuel Dunn, Mathematician

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Kashnor notes, "Indicates the routes of the principal explorers, and shows a peculiar gulf, marked "Frozen Sea," with "Great Land, Inhabited," north of Behring Strait." See also map 093:062M for a later (1789) version of this map. and 093:190S for later version. See also 105:226M. Compass rose lower center.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Sea leagues 20 in a Degree. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Art Work. Verso Text: MS. note:19, 2. Mercator's Chart of the World..

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