Old Maps of Arctic/Antarctic and Polar regions by Grace Galleries, Harpswell Maine

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AA102 - R. BONNE �Mappe Monde Sur Le Plan De L'Equateur Hemisphere Meridional� Paris 1770. Colored. 9X13. Attractive circular chart of Antarctica showing the south polar regions and islands and the southern continents of Australia with Tasmania joined. South America and South Africa with Madagascar. On each side of the spherical chart are detailed tables of meridians arid parallels.		$250
AA102A - R .BONNE �Mappe Monde Sur Le Plan De L'Equateur. Hemisphere Septentrional.� Paris. 1770. Colored. 9�X13�. Attractive circular chart of the world with a north polar projection shows the northern hemisphere & the lands around the Pole. On each side of the chart are climate tables by latitude and region and map includes a sphere in lower right showing the equator, tropics, ecliptic & Arctic and Antarctic Circles. Finely engraved by a Royal Hydrographer in Paris in the late 18th century.		$250
AA122 - R. BONNE �Mappe Monde Sur Un Plan Horisontal Situ� a 45d de Latitude Sud. Hemisphere Occidental.� Paris. 1770. Colored. 9�X13�. Attractive & finely engraved circular chart shows the southern regions of North America, plus the Caribbean & South America, the South Pacific Ocean, Australia and New Zealand, drawn with a south polar projection. Two spheres are located on either side of the central chart, showing the circles around the earth of the latitudes, tropics, equator & horizons called Sphere Oblique and Pour Le Latitudes. A fine example of the work of Rigobert Bonne, the Royal Hydrographer in Paris.		$250
AA123 - R. BONNE �Mappe-Monde Sur un Plan Horisontal Situ� a 45d de Latitude Nord.. Hemisphere Oriental.� Paris. 1770. Colored. 9X13�. Fine circular chart, drawn with a north polar projection shows the countries of the world, the seas & oceans portrayed above the southern latitudes in good detail overall. On either side of the map are two spheres, one called �Effet De La Pesanteur� and the other �Sphere Oblique� showing the equator, tropics, horizon & ecliptics. Finely engraved by a master Parisian engraver of the late 18th century.		$250
AA127 - W. FADEN �Southern Hemisphere�. London 1802. Colored. 22�X�.. Fine large circular chart of the lands in the Southern Hemisphere as they had been charted by the early 19th century, shows all of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and the islands in the South Pacific. Includes South America, South Africa and Madagascar and locates the Antarctic Circle and the closest islands to it explored to date. The map depicts all harbors around the land areas. Tasmania is now shown as an island independent of the Australian mainland, and the Falkland Islands, New Georgia and Southern Thule and Sandwich Land off the southern tip of South America are shown with a note indicating surveys done in 1756 and 1775. This is a particularly fine map with excellent engraving. From Faden's �General Atlas� of 1802.		$375
AA128 - S. NEELE �A Map of the Countries Thirty Degrees Round the North Pole.� London 1808. Colored. 14X13�. Fine hemisphere map with a north polar projection shows the northern coasts of the lands around the North Pole as surveyed in 1808. Depicts North America from the Bering Strait in the Pacific Northwest to Hudson's and Baffins Bays on the east coast, showing the lands of the Copper and Dog Ribbed Indians and Hearn's Discoveries around the Bays. Greenland is drawn as part of the mainland. Iceland & Spitzbergen are drawn on and above the Arctic Circle & Scandinavia's Arctic coast is shown connecting to the Russian Arctic coast which is depicted above mainland China and Tartary, extending to the Behring Strait and Russian Alaska. Above the Behring Strait, between Russia and North America is a note saying �ice extending from continent to continent� and no settlements are shown in Alaska and only C. Lisbon, C. Mulgrave and C. Prince of Wales are indicated on the northwest shoreline. Engraved by Samuel Neele, and published by Longman & Co. in 1808 this is a finely engraved polar chart.		$310
AA129 - W. LIZARS �Polar Regions� Edin. 1822. Colored. 15�X14�. Fine map has a north polar projection and shows the northern coastlines of the lands around the North Pole. No settlements are shown in North America which extends from the Behring Strait in the Pacific Northwest across the continent to Hudsons and Baffins Bays. Many harbors are indicated around the Bays and along the western coast of Greenland which is still shown attached to the mainland. Iceland, the Shetland Islands and Spitzbergen are drawn on and above the Arctic Circle. Scandinavia's northern coast is named Lapland, and no settlements are indicated along Russia's Arctic coast which stretches across to the Behring Strait and Russian Alaska. Many depth soundings are indicated in the Strait which has indications of harbors on both its west and east shores. Published by A. Constable in 1822, this fine map appeared in Lizars �Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas.�		$285
CAN192 - A. H. PETERMANN �Provisorische karte von Lieut. Schwatka's Expedition. Zur. Aufsuchung der Reste Sir John Franklin's Expedition auf King William Land. 1879-1880.� Gotha. 1880. Colored. 10X7�. Small but very detailed chart shows explorers routes to Canada's Northwest Territories above Hudson's Bay. Locates Victoria Strait, King William Land (afterwards Prince of Wales Land,) Boothia & the Adelaide Peninsula. Shows the tracks of Sir John Franklin's expedition 1845-47, when he attempted to find a northwest passage from the Atlantic to the North Pacific, but he died in the attempt when his ship became trapped in the ice. Lieut Schwatka's expedition took place at the end of the 19th century after which this chart was included in August Henry Petermann's �Geographische Mittheilungen�. Published by Justus Perthes in 1880.		$85
CAN194 - A. H. PETERMANN �Das Nordlichste Land Der Erde Entdeckt 1616 bis 1861. Nach den Olriginslquellen gez. von A. Petermann.� Gotha. 1887. Colored.9�X16�. Very detailed chart in 5 sections shows individual charts outlining the discoveries of 6 explorers to Canada's Northern Arctic Territories above Baffin's Bay from 1616-1861. 1. Bylot & Baffin. July 1616, 2. Ross. Aug. 1818, 3. Inglefield, Aug/Sept. 1852, 4. Kane 1853-1855, 5. Hayes. Aug. 1860-July 1861. August Petermann who drew these charts was an expert in the geography of the Arctic and had a bay named for him on the coast of Grinnelland. Born in Germany in 1822, he moved to London in 1847 where he drew maps published by himself and others, and in 1854 he moved back to Germany and joined the Justus Perthes publishing company where he issued his famous �Geographische Mittheilungun� a geographical journal that became world famous. This excellent map was included in his Journal in the 1887 edition.		$185
PNWR131 - A. PETERMANN �Special karte von Nord-Siberien Zwischen Lena und Beringstrasse.� Gotha. 1879. Colored. 14X14. This fine chart shows Siberia and Russia's Arctic coast from Lena to the Bering Strait and Alaska. Chart depicts many ships tracks criss-crossing the offshore Arctic waters, with depth soundings noted along the routes. Locates Capt. Smith's American Bark �New Bedford� 1879, Capt. Soule's �St. George� 1867, The Bark �Wollaston�, Capt. Nye, Capt. Craynor in H.M.S. Reindeer, 1867, Collinson in 1850, Kellett in 1849, Capt. Cook in 1778 (above the Bering Strait) and shows Wrangell Land visited by Capt. Long in 1869. Also depicted on the chart is the coast of Alaska and the North American coastline on the east shore of the Bering Strait. This is a very detailed and finely executed explorers map that includes great detail of Russia's Arctic coast.Drawn under the supervision of Augustus Petermann, the map was included in Petermann's �Geographishe Mittheilungun� and published by Justus Perthes in 1879.		$150
RUSS116 - A. PETERMANN �Prof. Nordenskiolds Fahrt Um Die Nordspitze Asiens Im Dampfer-Vega. August 1878.� Gotha. 1879. Colored. 14�X19�. This fine chart shows the track of Capt. Nordenskjold's Whaler, the Vega, sailing from Lena on Russia's Arctic coast around the East and West Taimyr Peninsulas. Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold (1832-1901) was an Arctic explorer, historian and geologist, born in Helsinki, Finland who moved to Stockholm. Sweden in 1858. He commanded the first successful transit of a Northeast Passage in 1878-1879. To accomplish this feat he left Tromso on 21st July 1878 and passing through the Yugor Strait, he rounded Cape Chelynski on 19th August and then wintered in 173� E. Long., 120 miles from the East Cape.In the summer of 1879 he passed through the Bering Strait into the Pacific Ocean. (Note: in 1932 a Soviet ice-breaker made the first passage in a single season between the White Sea and the Pacific.) This excellent explorers chart includes a drawing in top left of Nordenskjold's Whaler the Vega and Augustus Petermann included this chart is his famous �Geographische Mittheilungen� published by Justus Perthes in 1879. Nordenskjold became the Head of the Dept. of Mineralogy at the National Museuam of Natural History and Professor at the University of Stockholm. He explored Greenland in 1882-1883 and became a cartographic historian and avid collector gradually building up a huge library of books, atlases and maps. The Nordenskjold Collection is now in Helsinki's University Library. (Ref. Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. K-P. Page. 333.)		$150
AA141 - C. S. HAMMOND �Region Around the North Pole Giving the Records of the Most Important Explorations.� N.Y. 1936. Printed color. 10�X15. This excellent and informative map shows the tracks and dates of the North Polar explorations in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The map also depicts the land contours of the countries surrounding the North Pole in great detail, with many place names and outlines of the Sounds, Seas, Bays and Islands. Includes three inset charts 1.) Franz Josef Land, 2.) Smith Sound and Robeson Channel and 3.) Svalbard (Spitzbergen). Also includes a list of Explorers' Routes from Davis in 1587 and Baffin in 1616 to Ekblaw in 1915. A fine map. From C. S. Hammond's �New World Atlas�.		$110
AA143 - J. COOK �A Chart of the Southern Hemisphere Shewing the Tracks of some of the Most Distinguished Navigators by Captain James Cook of His Majesty's Navy.� London. 1777. B/W. 22�X21�. This fine chart with a South Polar Projection shows the southern continents of South Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Ocean was drawn under the supervision of Capt. James Cook after his 2nd voyage to the Pacific in 1772-1775. It depicts Cook's tracks during his 1st and 2nd voyages, 1768-1771 and 1772-1775 as well as the tracks of his contemporaries Carteret, Byron, Furneaux, Wallis and Bougainville and includes Quiros in 1606, Tasman in 1612, Halley in 1700, & Bouvet in 1738. The chart also lists the islands in the Southern Hemisphere and their postions,as discovered by the explorer/navigators. This fine chart was published in 1777 by William Strahan and Thomas Cadell in the Strand, London. Both well known 18th century publishers.		$750 SOLD
AA147 - J. de BEAURAIN �Carte Des Deux Region Polaires Jusqu'au 45 Degre de Latitude.� Paris. c. 1795. Colored. 7�X11. Finely engraved early double hemisphere map with North and South Polar Projections. Land contours around the Arctic Circle are still very speculative and on America's Pacific Northwest coast is the apocryphal entrance to a Northwest Passage, reported by Admiral de Fonte in 1640, but disproved after later navigators such as James Cook and George Vancouver surveyed the coast in detail in the late 18th century. On the South Polar map are the tracks of Abel Tasman in 1642, and Captain's Cook and Furneaux in 1769, 1773 and 1774. Jean, Chevalier De Beaurain Sr. lived from 1696-1771 and was a well known Parisian cartographer, who was made Geographe Du Royal (Royal Geographer to the King) in 1721. After his father's death, Jean de Beaurain Jr. carried on his father's mapmaking business and issued a well known chart of Boston Harbor, in Massachusetts, based on Des Barre's chart of the same region.		$275
AA148 - A. ZATTA �Carta Delle Due Region Polare.� Venice. c. 1778. 9X9. Colored Attractive hemisphere map with a North Polar projection shows the lands around the North Pole. In the Pacific Northwest the land contours are still highly speculative and Vitus Behring's Strait, named after him does not appear on the map, but the apocryphal entrance to a Northwest Passage on America's Pacific Northwest coast is depicted. The entrance to a Passage across North America was first reported by Admiral de Fonte in 1640, but it was deemed fictitious after Captain Cook and George Vancouver made more accurate surveys along the coast in the late 18th century. Antonio Zatta (1750-1804) was a well known Venetian cartographer, publisher and printer and this map came from his �Le Colonie Unite Dell' America Settentrie,� a set of 12 maps he published in 1778.		$350
AA149 - E. BOWEN �A New and Accurate Map of the North Pole with all the Countries Hitherto Discovered Situated Near or Adjacent to it, as well as Some Others More Remote. Drawn from the Latest and Best Authorities and Regulated by Astronomical Observations. By Eman. Bowen.� London 1747-1752. Colored. 15X16. Very handsome circular map by a major cartographer - Emanuel Bowen (c.1693-1767), was drawn with a Polar Projection to show all the lands around the North Pole. Depicts Hudson's Bay, Labrador or New Britain in North America, Baffin's Bay, Davis Strait, Greenland, Iceland and the North Atlantic Ocean to the British Isles, Norway, Lapland & the Baltic Sea in Europe, and thence to the Russian Arctic and Siberia. The chart depicts the Arctic Circle and the Northern or Arctic Ocean. The text on the map states �By the view which this Polar Map exhibits of the Compass and Extent of Sea and Land lying East and West from the Meridian of London may be estimated the importance of the many attempts which have been formerly made and is at present making, to discover a passage to China and the East Indies. For could this desirable discovery be made either by a northeast passage as has been hitherto in vain attempted, or by a northwest passage as is now again attempting; it would greatly shorten the length and lessen the expenses of East India voyages; and consequently be of considerable advantage to our British trade and navigation.� Further paragraphs of text provide the names of the navigators consulted in the formation of this chart and a note that �the publick is in great expectation of new discoveries from the expedition of the Dobbs Galley and the California which passed by Yarmouth the 31st of May 1746 under convoy of the Loo of 40 Guns on their voyage to discover the N.W. Passage by Hudson's Streights.� This fine chart has a beautiful title cartouche in top center surrounded by ornamental scrolls and foliage. From �A Complete System of Geography� by Emanuel Bowen.		$1,200
AA151 - BALDWIN & CRADOCK �Circumjacent to the North Pole.� London. 1830. Colored. 10�X11. Finely engraved map shows the lands surrounding the North Pole. The map is drawn with a North Polar Projection & includes a note saying �The figures around the coast show the time of High Water at the Full & Change of the Moon.� The chart shows cities, towns & harbors, rivers & seas in the Northern Hemisphere & is extremely detailed. The map was published by Baldwin & Cradock under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. A very well-drawn map.		$175
AA154 - J. GIBSON �A Map of the Icy Sea in Which the Several Communications with the Land Waters & Other Discoveries are Exhibited.� London 1760 Colored. 8X8. This fanciful & somewhat speculative single hemisphere map was drawn with a Polar Projection to show all the lands around the North Pole. In North America the cartographer has drawn the fabled Sea of the West, and an attempt was made to depict the Great Lakes & the St. Lawrence River. Greenland is still joined to the American mainland & Europe is shown from Scandinavia south to the Mediterranean. The northern coasts of Russia & Asia stretch across the Great North Sea, to the Behring Strait & Russian Alaska. The map was engraved by John Gibson (fl.1750-1792 ) & published in the Gentleman's Magazine, in London June 1760.		$475

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