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Polar II; India and Beyond, Travel and Photography

Auction 19952
London, Knightsbridge
4 Dec 2012, starting at 11:00 GMT.
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CHINA and Korea. A very good album comprising approximately 132 views including six rare images by Felice Beato of the US military in Korea (1871, folio, [c.1868-1871]
Sold for £111,650 inc. premium
CHINA and KOREA A very good album comprising approximately 132 views including six rare images by Felice Beato of the ...
CHINA THOMSON (JOHN) An album of approximately 63 images, albumen prints [c.1870]
Sold for £85,250 inc. premium
CHINA THOMSON (JOHN) An album of approximately 63 images, albumen prints [c.1870]
KOETTLITZ (REGINALD) - JACKSON-HARMSWORTH EXPEDITION Autograph journals of Reginld Koettlitz for the years 1895 and 1896 documenting his life and work in Franz Josef Land, 3 vol., Franz Josef Land, 1895-1896
Sold for £23,750 inc. premium
KOETTLITZ (REGINALD) - JACKSON-HARMSWORTH EXPEDITION Autograph journals of Reginld Koettlitz for the years 1895 and 1896 documenting his life and work ...
A collection of letters and ephemera pertaining to Louis Bernacchi BY DESCENT
Sold for £13,750 inc. premium
BERNACCHI (LOUIS) Papers of Louis 'Bunny' Bernacchi, physicist on Scott's Discovery Expedition

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"ARCTIC SCENERY" DINNER PLATES The pair of earthenware dinner plates, of circular form, with blue transfer decoration, wild flowers alternating with wild animals to the rim, with Hecla and Griper wintering in Melville Sound, with dog sled in the foreground, "ARCTIC SCENERY" igloo motif transfer on base, [c.1840] (2)
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"ARCTIC SCENERY" DINNER PLATES The pair of earthenware dinner plates, of circular form, with blue transfer decoration, wild flowers alternating with wild animals to the ...
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SPITZBERGEN - MIDSHIPMAN NELSON An autograph letter to J. T. Batt esq. from an anonymous sender transmitting news of HMS Racehorse and Carcass and their progress on their quest for the Northwest Passage, seemingly passed on from the Prime Minister at the time, Lord North, having been communicated from, presumably, Lord Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty; together with a tracing manuscript map, sent by Lord North, showing the outline of the principal islands of Spitzbergen, the tract of the Racehorse and Carcass, the extent of the pack ice and the area in which floes were encountered, map 485 x 350mm. [c.1773] (2)
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ROYAL NAVY EXPLORATION EXPEDITION, 1773 An autograph letter to J. T. Batt esq. from an anonymous sender transmitting news of HMS Racehorse and Carcass; together ...
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PARRY (WILLIAM EDWARD) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific... with an Appendix, Containing the Scientific and Other Observations, 1821
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ROYAL NAVY, NORTH WEST PASSAGE, 1819-1820. PARRY (WILLIAM EDWARD) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the ...
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€350 - 470
US$ 450 - 600
ROSS (JOHN) Explanation and Answer to Mr. John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, 1835
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ROSS, NORTH WEST PASSAGE, 1829-1833. ROSS (JOHN) Explanation and Answer to Mr. John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage ...
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HMS TERROR A small wooden keepsake, presumed to be piece of the <i>Terror</i>, in the form of a book, [1837]
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ROYAL NAVY, NORTH WEST PASSAGE, 1836-1837 BACK (GEORGE) A small wooden keepsake from the Terror in the form of a book
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NORTH WEST PASSAGE. CHAMBERS (GEORGE) "H.M.S Terror in frozen strait", [1838]
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NORTH WEST PASSAGE, 1836-1837. CHAMBERS (GEORGE) "H.M.S Terror in frozen strait", [1838]
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CRESSWELL (SAMUEL GURNEY) A collection of 7 chromolithographed plates, from "A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour...of the Voyage of H.M.S. Investigator"
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FRANKLIN SEARCHING EXPEDITION, 1851-1853. CRESSWELL (SAMUEL GURNEY) A collection of 7 chromolithographed plates, from "A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour...of the Voyage of H.M.S. ...
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SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION, 1853-55 - OPERTI (ALBERT) OPERTI (ALBERT) "Farewell", depicting some crew members of the abandoned brig, Advance, in Rensselaer Harbour, Greenland, 1855, [c.1885]
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SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION, 1853-55 - OPERTI (ALBERT) OPERTI (ALBERT) "Farewell", depicting some crew members of the abandoned brig, Advance, in Rensselaer Harbour, Greenland, 1855, [c.1885]
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CHYDENIUS (JAKOB KARL EMIL) Svenska Expeditionen til Spetsbergen år 1861 Utförd under Ledning af Otto Torell, 2 parts, 1865
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SWEDISH SPITZBERGEN EXPEDITION, 1861. CHYDENIUS (JAKOB KARL EMIL) Svenska Expeditionen til Spetsbergen år 1861 Utförd under Ledning af Otto Torell, bound in 2 parts, 1865
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Four Copeland soup plates from 'Discovery' Arctic Expedition 1875
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BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1875-76 A pair of soup bowls, of circular form, by W.T. Copeland & Sons, the rims with black transfer decoration of plaited ...
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