Dec 08, 2022 - Sale 2624

Sale 2624 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 1,875
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ARCTIC -- SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN.) John Arrowsmith; and Captain Leopold McClintock. Map of a Portion of the Arctic Shores of America. Lithographed folding map of the archipelagos of south-central Nunavut, Canada. 21 1/4x14 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; light age toning. London, 1859
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Highly detailed chart of the Kitikmeot Region of arctic Canada, tracking the efforts of Captain McClintock in the steam yacht "Fox" to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin a decade after his expedition's disappearance.

With: A Woodburytype mounted oval portrait of McClintock and corresponding text leaf from "Men of Mark, a Gallery of Contemporary Portraits", 1877.

And: An autograph letter signed by John Arrowsmith to publisher John Murray on "Joynson/1859" watermarked laid paper discussing the production of the present map:

10 Soho Square
Nov. 30th 1859

My Dear Sir,

This morning I rec'd from Capt.n McClintock from Dublin, two charts with the Tracks of the Fox laid down.

I have transferred the tracks to a copy of the map which is to accompany his book, but I shall not get the engraving finished till tomorrow night & it will be the middle of the day on Friday before I can show you a proof.

Does McClintock's book bear the date 1859 or does it bear that of 1860?

If you have a loose copy of the chart showing the drift of the Fox down Baffin Bay, be good enough to send it.

J. Arrowsmith

[to] J. Murray Esq.