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Polar Maps

Antique rare maps of Polar Maps





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1770 - A Map of the Icy Sea in which the several Communications with the Land Waters and other new Discoveries are exhibited [Sea of the West]

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An interesting map on a north hemispheric projection, showing the regions then being actively explored by the Russians, French and English. The projection is based upon Phillipe Buache's work from the prior decade and illustrates one view of the...


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1774 - Nouveau Systeme Geographique par lequel on concilie les anciennes connoissances sur les Pays nord-ouest de l'Amerique avec les nouvelles decouvertes des Russes au nord de la Mer du sud. Par Mr. de Vaugondy. 1774.

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Rare Dutch Edition of Didier Robert De Vaugondy's Comparative Cartographic Gem -- The Final De Vaugondy Map In The Greatest Cartographic Debate of the 18th Century Didier Robert De Vaugondy's Nouveau System Geographique . . . represents the final...


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1774 - Essai D'Une Carte Polaire Arctique Construite d'apres toutes les connoissances les plus nouvelles pour servir aux Navigations et aux Decourvertes a faire dans la mer Glaciale . . . 1774

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A Cartographic Landmark -- De Vaugondy's Presentation to the French Royal Academy on the Most Practicable Sailing Routes to the Pacific via the North Polar Regions Extremely rare polar map produced to illustrate a presentation made by Didier Robert...


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1775 - The Russian Discoveries, from the Map Published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg . . . 1775

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Fine English edition of Muller's map of the Northwest Coast of America and Northeast Coast of Asia, based upon reports from J.N. De L'Isle in St. Petersburg and others. Includes a massive conjectural land mass approximating the Alaskan Archipelago and...


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1791 - Carte Du Voyage Du Captaine Cook (and) Carte Du Pretendu Voyage Du Capitaine Lorencio Ferrer Maldonado Espagnol en 1588

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Rare pair of maps on a single sheet, showing the results of various real and apocryphal explorations in the Arctic Regions and the Northwest Coast of America, which appeared in the atlas volume of Jean Benjamin de LaBorde's Histoire Abrégée de la Mer...


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1792 - [Eastern Siberia and Alaska]. ‘Vostochnaya Chast Irtkutskoi Gubernii s prilezhashhimi ostrovami i zapadnom beregom Ameriki’ (‘The Eastern Part of the Irkutsk Province with the adjacent islands and the West Coast of America’).

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Fine example of this rare Russian map of the northwest coast of America and northeastern parts of Russia, published by Wilbrecht in his rare 1792 atlas entitled Ross'iiskoi Atlas iz soroka chetyrekh kart sostaiashch'ii I na sorok na dva...


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1794 - A Map of the Discoveries made by Captn.s Cook & Clerke in the Years 1778 & 1779 between the Eastern Coast of Asia and the Western Coast of North America . ... Also Mr. Hearn's . . .

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First edition of Carey's map of Cook's Discoveries in the Pacific and Hearne's discoveries west of the Hudson, in search of the Arctic Sea. This is one of the earliest appearances of a Cook map to be published in America. Excellent conjectural NW...


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1814 - A Map of the Discoveries made by Captn.s Cook & Clerke in the Years 1778 & 1779 between the Eastern Coast of Asia and the Western Coast of North America . . . . Also Mr. Hearn's discoveries to the North westward of Hudson's Bay, in 1772.

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Outline color example of Carey's map of Cook's Discoveries in the Pacific and Hearn's discoveries west of the Hudson, in search of the Arctic Sea. This is one of the earliest appearances of a Cook map to be published in America. Excellent conjectural...


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1825 - Amer. Sep. No. 5. Partie De L'Amerique Russe

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Large format map of the region, showing the Northern most known limits of Alaska. The northernmost named place is C. Glace de Cook. Cap Laburn is also shown, as is C. Mulgraves, and B. de Bonne Esperance. The primary feature on the map are the tracks...


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1850 - Chart of the North West Passage Between Asia & America

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Rare map showing the Northwest Passage, via the Bering Straits, with a fantastic early depiction of Alaska (then Russian America) and contiguous parts of Canada. Philip's map highlights the discoveries of Franklin and Richardson in the Arctic Sea...


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1858 - Mari Archipelaghi polari artici Dalla Baia D'Hudson all America Russa

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Rare map of the Northwest Passage, Northern Canada, part of Alaska (America Russa) and Greenland. The map is quite unusual, being one of the few maps to focus on the known islands of the Northwest Passage, including several partially known...


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1645 - Regiones Sub Polo Arctico . . . (Heightened in Gold Leaf)

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Nice example of the second edition of Blaeu's signature map of the North Polar Regions, with several wonderful cartouches and decorative coat of arms. Blaeu's decorative map of the North Pole, including Arctic North America, Scandinavia, and northern...


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1647 - Carta particolare dello istreto e Mare iscoperto da Hen:o Hudson Ingilese nel 1611 . . .

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The First Sea Chart of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait Fine example of the first edition of Robert Dudley's chart of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, the earliest sea chart of the region and the first printed map to focus on Hudson Bay. Dudley's chart is...


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1670 - Pascaarte vande Noorder Zeekusten van America van Groenland door de Straet Davis en Hudson tot aen Terra Neuf . . .

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Fine example of Doncker's rare early map of the Northern part of America, including Hudson Bay, Davis Straits, Button Bay and the west coast of Greenland. Doncker's chart is one of the earliest obtainable charts to show this configuration and much of...


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1690 - Terre Artiche . . .

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Fine example of Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's map of the North Polar Regions, published in Venice circa 1690. Coronelli's map provides a remarkable depiction of the Arctic Circle, North Pole, Greenland, and Baffin Bay, with parts of Canada, parts of...


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1690 - Polo Settentrionale, o Boreale, et Artico

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Rare north polar section of Coronelli's remarkable globe gores, first published in 1690. The present gore section is the upper calotte for Coronelli's large (110cm) globe showing the north pole and surrounding areas. The section includes extensive...