northwest passage (18 risultati)

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol 14, 1856, pp. 341-346, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket, as new. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Condizione: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

unknown_binding. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Card Covers. Condizione: Good. 16 pages. With woodcuts. Genuine, Original, and Packed with Innovation! This weekly magazine isn't just a fragment of history, it's a window into the cutting-edge advancements of the Victorian era! Since 1823, The Mechanics' Magazine has tackled revolutionary topics, from printing presses to vapor baths, hydrostatics, and hydraulics. It dives into breakthrough safety measures, preventing explosive contaminated air, while exploring the mechanics of oxy-hydrogen blowpipes and self-laying rail carriages. Every page crackles with Victorian-era engineering brilliance, capturing the relentless drive for invention that shaped the modern world! This is an exclusive standalone issue, carefully separated from its original volume; authentic, original, and uniquely crafted. It is not a reprint or reproduction but a distinct piece in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Mechanics' Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. Amundsenâs narrative of his expedition, recounting the navigation of the Northwest Passage, magnetic observations, wintering experiences, and the journey to the North Magnetic Pole, with plates and a foldâ'out map. 25 Pages, 4 plates, 1 fold-out map. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 43 pages. Parryâs 1819â"20 expedition is summarised through its scientific aims, navigational challenges, and encounters with Arctic ice. Barrow emphasises the voyageâs contributions to geographical knowledge and the persistent belief that a navigable route between the Atlantic and Pacific might yet be found. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with some light edge wear and a short closed tear to the front fold. Stefansson recounts the 'epoch-making achievement' of the U.S. Navy submarine--Nautilus-- in completing its voyage between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres beneath the Polar ice cap. For five hundred years, explorers, nations and companies has sought a sea route through a Northwest Passage for military and commercial purposes, but it would be a heroic undersea adventure that would secure the route.

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742; Vol. II: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 177, 181. Bridges & Hair, pp. 295-6.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

A mid-19th-century oil painting depicting two ships (3-masted barks) in a rough sea amid dangerous rocky and icy cliffs, mountains and outcroppings. Pasted to the back is an old slip of paper with a note (the parts of the text in parentheses are lost, but have been filled in based on an earlier transcription): "The sailing ships ('Erebus' and 'Terror') passing through the Davis Straig(ht) in 1846 [the 6 later "corrected" to 7]. It was on this expedition that Sir John Franklin discovered the North West Passage, and in which he lost his life". In fact Franklin sailed these two ships through Davis Strait in 1845, passed on through Lancaster Sound in search of a Northwest Passage and spent the winter on Beechey Island. In 1846 he and his expedition made their way through (using the modern names) Peel Sound and Franklin Strait into McClintock Channel, where they got caught in the ice near King William Island. Most of the crew died there, including Franklin in 1847. A few made it on foot to the mainland but were unable to reach any outpost. The last died in 1848. Since no one who saw the ships in these waters survived, the anonymous artist who made the present painting appears to have turned to an 1847 painting of the same ships by John Wilson Carmichael in London, though he did not copy it. Carmichael had earlier made a drawing of an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage by William Edward Parry (who made three expeditions in the years 1819 to 1825, each with two ships), but in 1847 he used parts of his existing Arctic scene as models for the composition of a new painting showing an Antarctic scene of James Clark Ross's voyage with the ships Erebus and Terror in 1842: "'Erebus' and 'Terror' in the Antarctic". Carmichael's drawing and painting survive at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The central ship in the present painting follows that in Carmichael's painting quite closely and the second ship more distantly. The rocks and ice are similar in general appearance and arrangement but quite different in detail.With some restorations along the edges of the painting and a small scuffmark near the foot toward the left, but generally in good condition.l Cf. Howgego, 1800-1850, P9, R27 & F21. Later mounted on another canvas and stretched over a wooden frame, with a handwritten note about the painting pasted on the back. Oil painting on canvas (65.5 x 91 cm), showing 2 ships in a rough sea amid dangerous rocks and ice.

Very good. Margin reinstated at insertion point, else excellent. Size 11.5 x 14 Inches. This is Robert de Vaugondy's 1772 map of the northwestern parts of North America and the northeastern extremes of Asia, issued in the supplement to Diderot's groundbreaking Encyclopédie . The map summarizes a blend of new discoveries and wild speculations regarding the coastlines of the North Pacific and the possibilities of a navigable Northwest Passage. De Fonte In particular, this map was dedicated to presenting an imaginary passage between the Pacific and the Canadian Maritimes, attributed to the fictional Admiral Bartholomew De Fonte. The purported seventeenth-century voyages of this Spanish explorer appeared first in a short-lived 1706 English publication entitled 'Memoirs of the Curious.' In it, De Fonte was said to be a Spanish Admiral who, sailing up the Pacific coast in the seventeenth century, discovered a series of gigantic lakes, seas, and rivers heading eastward towards the Hudson Bay. Supposedly, upon one of these great inland lakes, he met with a ship from Boston that claimed to have come through a Northwestern Passage. It is a testament to the excitement surrounding the De Fonte geography that two maps of the ten produced by Vaugondy for Diderot were dedicated to it. As fabulous as the De Fonte narrative might seem, it was eagerly adopted by geographers of the day: Joseph-Nicholas de L'Isle and Philippe Buache would include the De Fonte narrative in their own speculations of the Pacific Northwest (in part in support of their equally fabulous Sea of the West). English mapmaking giant Thomas Jefferys adopted the De Fonte narrative wholesale - including it with his map depicting Müller's peninsula, an important precursor to the present work. In accord with De Fonte's suggestions, this map displays the strait of Juan de Fuca continuing inland past the large lakes of Velasco, Belle, and De Fonte to communicate with Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay. There are also a series of rivers and waterways connecting the lakes themselves to an outlet in the Arctic. Based upon Russian reports, Vaugondy renames the 'Straits of Anian' the 'Detroit de Bering (Bering Strait),' paying homage to the great Russian navigator. Anian itself has been moved southward nearer to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It first appears on 16th-century maps of Gastaldi and was rapidly adopted by the cartographers of the Low Countries. It should be noted that at the time Anian was conceived, geographers had no concrete evidence whatsoever that Asia and America were separate landmasses and that its resemblance to the actual Bering Strait would be entirely fortuitous. The proposed existence of Anian presupposed the existence of a Northwest Passage and, as such, was entirely mythical, though the lands that are now Alaska long bore that name. Further south still, we find Quivira, one of the legendary Kingdoms of Gold. Nearer to Russia, the Aleutian Islands have been consolidated into a large peninsular landmass extending eastward towards Asia. In the extreme north, between 80 and 60 degrees of latitude, is an archipelago, presumably discovered by Japanese sailors marooned in Kamchatka and purportedly inhabited entirely by pygmies. Publication History and Census This map was among the ten maps prepared by Robert de Vaugondy for the Supplement to Diderot's Encyclopédie . The Supplément à l'Encyclopédie is well represented in institutional collections. The separate maps appear on the market from time to time. References: Rumsey 10402.013. OCLC 945089389, 606367852. Pedley, Mary Sponberg. Bel et Utile: The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers. 455. Kershaw, Kenneth A., Early Printed Maps of Canada, 1231. Wagner, Henry R., The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800, Vol II, 637. Portinaro, Pierluigi and Knirsch, Franco, The Cartography of North America 1500-1800, #159. Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 1195.

Very good. Reinforced at fold. Else excellent. Size 6.75 x 17.25 Inches. This is a rare, German edition of Henry Ellis' A New Chart of the Parts where a Northwest Passage was Sought in the Years 1746 and 1747 . This map was included translations of Ellis' A Voyage to Hudson's - Bay , which chronicled his journey - largely on behalf of Arthur Dobbs - to northern and Maritime Canada to discover the Northwest Passage, which Dobbs believed had been kept hidden by the machinations of the Hudson's Bay Company. Not The First Try Dobbs funded a previous 1741 expedition to Hudson's Bay, led by Christopher Middleton, who found no passage to the Pacific despite wintering in the bay. Middleton published a chart showing his findings in 1743, after reporting to a disappointed Dobbs. Under pressure from Dobbs, Middleton's crew perjured themselves by accusing Middleton of malingering and deliberately misrepresenting alleged passages as closed bays or rivers. A pamphlet war ensued between Dobbs and Middleton, and a 1746 Bowles map, dedicated to Dobbs and drawn by Captain Middleton's perfidious clerk John Wigate, emphatically showed the existence of a potential passage to the Pacific in the form of 'Wager Strait.' Ellis's 1746 expedition was dispatched specifically to prove the existence of a Northwest Passage leading from Hudson Bay, and to prove Dobbs' accusations against Middleton. In doing so, Dobbs brought down the Hudson's Bay Company. Ellis failed to achieve these goals, but maintained that the existence of a Northwest Passage was nevertheless probable. So while the present map Ellis reluctantly closed 'Wager Strait' into 'Wager Bay,' he included several new possible passages, such as the ' Golfe de Chesterfield ' south of Wager Bay, Repulse Bay beyond it, and several promising passages from the Davis Strait. While the publication of Ellis' findings discouraged further English attempts at finding a Northwest Passage, the gauntlet was eagerly taken up by the French mapmakers Buache and De l'Isle who, in 1752, incorporated his cartography with the apocryphal Pacific Northwest discoveries Admiral de Fonte in an effort to propose a convincing passage between the Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic. Publication History and Census This map is rare. It was engraved by Johann Christian Püschel, possibly for inclusion in a German edition of Henry Ellis' A Voyage to Hudsons-Bay , but the specific edition is not known. It is evidently neither the 1750 Vandenhoeck edition nor the 1749 and 1750 Arkstee and Merkus edition, whose version of Ellis' map is a different plate by a different engraver. It is possible that the present map was included in a volume of the German translation of Prévost's travels, Allgemeine Historie der Reisen . Arkstee and Merkus produced such a translation, but we cannot place the present map in that work. We see no separate examples of the present map in institutional collections and see only one instance of it appearing on the market. References: Not in OCLC; not in Kershaw.