Ross Expedition—British Admiralty | Chart of the South Polar Sea with Captain Davis's annotations - photo 1
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Ross Expedition—British Admiralty | Chart of the South Polar Sea with Captain Davis's annotations

Lot 254
21.09.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 20 320
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 254 | Ross Expedition—British Admiralty | Chart of the South Polar Sea with Captain Davis's annotations
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
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, trimmed to engraved area (622 x 622 mm.), dissected into four sections, and backed on linen, WITH ANNOTATIONS BY CAPTAIN DAVIS MADE DURING HIS ANTARCTIC VOYAGE WITH ROSS (1839-1843) in red and black inks tracking the voyage, with some (later?) pencil annotations in a different hand, some browning, a few small ink stains

THE CHART KEPT AND ANNOTATED BY JOHN EDWARD DAVIS DURING HIS VOYAGE ON THE ROSS EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC.

What makes this a fascinating and unique document are the annotations by Davis, the Second Master aboard the Terror, who was chiefly responsible for surveying and chart production, as well as for producing many illustrations of the voyage. Trimmed to the engraved area and backed on linen, this chart could be folded and kept upon Davis's person aboard ship for easy day-to-day reference.
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