Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to MDCCCLIV (1854)

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  Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to MDCCCLII [1852]

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows Kennedy's track. Extends West to Bank Straits." Lower right corner: 2118. Also shows Hoppner's land track. Three compass roses. See also map 093:019, later edition of this map with expanded western and southern coverage. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. note: No.18.

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  Discoveries in the Arctic Sea between Baffin Bay and Melville Island;

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  Shewing [sic] the Coasts Explored on the Ice by Capt. Ommanney and the Officers of the Expedition under the command of Capt. H. T. Austin... also by the Honble. Hudson's Bay Co. Expedition under the command of Rear-Admiral John Ross, C.B., and Dr. John Rae, in Wollaston and Victoria Land, in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1850-51. Drawn from the Official Documents, by John Arrowsmith. Tracks of 18 explorers indicating coastlines each explored in search for Franklin. Reference table with color key for various explorers. Description of animals on Melville Island and seen from Victoria Channel. Map extends beyond neatline, northeast corner area section added. Submap of Beechey Island.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Map extends beyond neatline.Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS. note: No. 17.

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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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  New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows all the American Continent, with the North-West Coast reaching above California, which is represented as an island." On North America, "This Continent with the adjoining Islands is generally supposed to have been Anciently unknown thought there are not wanting some, who will have even the Continent its self to be no other than the Insula Atlantis of the Ancients." Kashnor dates as 1698, Shirley dates 1700-01. This is the first world map in Wells' atlas, see 105:270 for another copy. 093:198M is the second similar map from the same atlas, per Shirley. Cartouche of Britannia and coat-of-arms. Vignette of Radcliffe Camera of Oxford, student and teacher, sailing ships at new lands. . Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. References: Shirley 608, BM Maps, Vol. 15, col 33 38e.1; Phillips 531; Wagner 467.. Verso Text: Ms. 47.

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  Chart of the Discoveries of Captains Ross, Parry and Franklin in the Arctic Regions in the years 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows a good map, according to the knowledge of the time, from the Mackenzie and Coppermine down to Chesterfield House, on the Saskatchewan." Lower left below neatline; J. Aspin, del't. Lower right below neatline: Hewitt, sc. Buckingham Place. Upper right: 76. Kashnor notes date [1823]. Submap: Cap't. Franklin's Journey from Coppermine River, to the Head of Bathurst Inlet, and Return by Hood's River.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS. note: No. 12.

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  A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans. Dedicated to his Highness William Duke of Gloucester

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows all the American Continent, with the North-West Coast reaching above California, which is represented as an island." On North America, "This Continent with the adjoining Islands is generally supposed to have been Anciently unknown thought there are not wanting some, who will have even the Continent its self to be no other than the Insula Atlantis of the Ancients." Kashnor dates as 1698, Shirley dates 1700-01. This is the first world map in Wells' atlas, see also 093:047M for another copy. 093:198M is the second similar map from the same atlas, per Shirley. Folder contains reproduction copy. Cartouche of Britannia and coat-of-arms. Vignette of Radcliffe Camera of Oxford, student and teacher, sailing ships at new lands. . Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: WAH. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. References: Shirley 608, BM Maps, Vol. 15, col 33 38e.1; Phillips 531; Wagner 467..

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