A Chart of Baffin's Bay with Davis & Barrow Straits; by Captn. Ross & Lieut Parry R.N., in 1818, 19 & 20, and the Discoveries of Captn. Parry in 1822 and 23 & Captn. Lyon in 1824.

£5,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Rare and important: this early nineteenth-century Admiralty chart of the Arctic compiles the results of British naval exploration between 1818 and 1824. After the trauma of Cook’s last voyage, a hiatus of forty years ensued before the Admiralty took up the question of the Northwest Passage again. Reports of icebergs be

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