Ross Expedition—British Admiralty | Chart of the South Polar Sea, 1839

By Descent: Property of the Hooker Family

Ross Expedition—British Admiralty

Chart of the South Polar Sea. Hydrographic office: published according to the Act of Parliament, June 1839 and sold by R.B. Bate [price] 2s.6d

First issue, untrimmed with folds (632 x 842mm.), some minor creases and tears, small inkstain at upper margin

(See previous lot for annotated copy, trimmed to engraved area and linen-backed).

PROVENANCE:

Joseph Dalton Hooker, thence by family descent