countries round north pole (8 resultados)

paper wrappers. Condición: Fine. 1st issue. 78.5 x 66.5 cms. The rare first issue of Stanford's April 19th 1875 map of the North Pole. Laid on cloth in 12 dissected sections. Coloured printing. Pasted to the lower left corner is a contemporary inset map of the Kennedy Channel entering ther 'frozen Polar Ocean', [text to the reverse of the inset map].The voyages and journeys of the Artic explorers throughout the centeries are neatly printed in red throughout the map with dates including up to Austrian Exped., Payer 1874. Neatly enclosed in cloth covers when folded with a hand-written original label 'North Pole'. A lovely copy of a very scarce item. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.

No Binding. Condición: Fine. Second Edition. 51x62 cms.THE NORTH POLE. A Fine Copy.Single sheet with a centre fold. Wide margins with no wear [58x 67cms]. Folding map. STANFORD'S LONDON ATLAS OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY FOLIO EDITION c1894. A large detailed map of the North Pole and surrounding lands at the end of the nineteenth century. Artic exploratons over the centuries are marked in text text with updates for each issue. Peary's Second expedition 1891-92 or 1894-95 explorations and the naming of the East Greenland Sea are not marked on this issue. Stanford bought Arrowsmith's plates of his London Atlas of Universal Geography of 1858 at the sale of his assets and re-published The London atlas in 1887, with a second edition in 1893/4 with an updated second edition of 1896. This was again re-issued in 1901 and a third edition in 1904 and a last edition in 1931. The atlas has over 100 maps in full colour lithography and was the premier atlas of the period.

Wraps. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No d/w. 24 panel fold-out map laid on linen; In colour; Dated Dec. 2nd 1878;; In car covers with faded title label to front cover and wear to edges of covers else a bright and clean map; Showing various expeditions and their furthest points of progress in red; Digital photos available; Map.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First. AMERICA'S FIRST WORLD ATLAS. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey; May 1, 1796. First edition. Folio (14 3/4" x 9 9/16", 372m x 244mm): [pi]1 (title-leaf). With 49 (of 45) engraved maps, hand-colored in outline; of which 25 are double-page, 21 folding and 3 single. Bound in modern half red morocco over modern boards (by Brockman). On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel. Conserved in 2024 by Brockman (full report available). All maps (re-)inserted on stubs, with repairs and filled losses, particularly at the edges. Damp-staining, soiling and tanning throughout. Maps numbered in an old hand verso, the first 7 additionally captioned verso. A large loss to the right edge of the North-Carolina map (no. 37; with a second, uncolored example of the map supplied following). The "British settlements in America" map (no. 23) followed by Samuel Lewis's 1812 map of the same subject and on the same model. Two additional maps of Indiana inserted at the end: John Scott's 1826 map and another from a (Massachusetts?) newspaper of 1834. Ink annotations to the maps of Maine and Massachusetts, giving county names. Ink-stamp of "D.Woodbridge.jr" to the title-page with "NO8" in ink manuscript besides. Graphite ownership signature of John Morgan Woodbridge to the tail of the title-page as well as to the verso of the rear (old) free end-paper, as well as his birth-date and university dates, all graphite. Mathew Carey (1760-1839), despite being born in Ireland, is a consummate American. Trained in Dublin as a printer, he worked for a radical newspaper advocating Irish independence along the same lines as America's. After printing an open letter from Benjamin Franklin in the paper, he came to know the great man while exiled to Paris for his criticism of dueling (an irony that will become evident in the discussion below), and worked for Franklin there. Carey emigrated to Philadelphia in 1784, where through Franklin's patronage he was able to set up a publishing house and bookshop in the academically fecund "Athens of America." Through the 1790's, America had largely relied on European cartographic sources, even using British maps in the War of Independence. Carey, a true believer in the power of the fourth estate, knew that success and power would come with American printings of books rather than imports from across the Atlantic. Carey in 1796 undertook to print the first stand-alone world atlas made in America: Carey's General Atlas. With about half of the maps showing the wider world -- the American maps are highlighted with manicules on the title-page -- this was the first time an American could forge a view of the world stage onto which the new nation had stepped. Dudley Woodbridge Jr. (1747-1823) was the son of a Connecticut doctor, and served as the first postmaster of Norwich, CT. He went west to Marietta, Ohio the first settlement in the post-1787 Northwest Territory (bounded by the Ohio River southeast, the Mississippi west and the Great Lakes north), and set up there its first general store. The present atlas can be seen as a guide to the expanding nation, but the story of its importance does not stop with the Woodbridges. Woodbridge went into business with Harman Blennerhassett, an advocate for Irish independence as Carey was, who settled with his wife (who was his niece) about a dozen miles downstream the Ohio from Marietta. Blennerhassett welcomed former Vice President Aaron Burr, and with Woodbridge's financial support advanced the so-called Burr conspiracy: to separate the Louisiana purchase from the United States and, with British support, to establish an independent republic that he would lead. Although he was acquitted, Burr was widely viewed as a traitor, ending his political career and sending him into exile in Europe. Thus the atlas can be seen as a tool of planning, one doubtless used by Woodbridge and perhaps even Burr in an attempt to divert Manifest Destiny. Not in Howes; Phillips, Library of Congress 683.

Uncoloured; expertly restored upper and lower margins with no loss of printed surface, light signs of old folds from the book, otherwise a fair example and priced accordingly. A map of the Arctic Circle and just over 6 degrees south. Show a fairly accurate map , although with the northen coast of North America and Greenland rather scetchy. Engraved by Samuel Neele, not sure of publication, but the paper has a dated watermark of 1796. Notes on the map refer to 'Dog Ribb'd Indians', 'Copper Indians' and 'Northern Indians'. And at 70 degrees a note 'The Sea 1772'.

49x62cm. Full original colour. Excellent condition.

49x61cm (eliptic/oval shape). Full original colour.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. AN ORIGINAL LATE 19TH CENTURY FOLDING COLOURED MAP BACKED ON LINEN & FOLDS DOWN INTO THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BOUND COVER, ORIGINAL LABEL TO FRONT COVER, MAP SHOW NUMEROUS EXPEDITIONS BY FAMOUS EXPLORERS IN RED WITH EXPLORATION DATES [SEE IMAGE]. UNFOLDED MAP MEASURES APPROX 27.5 x 21 INCHES. VERY MINOR WEAR TO COVERS WITH A FEW VERY MINOR MARKS TO MAP. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.