[Pair of maps of the Poles]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Continent Arctique. [&] Continent Meridional

Paris, 1683. Two plates, ea.150 x 105mm. Coloured.
A pair of maps of the polar regions. Published in Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'.
MALL0098

[Double-hemisphere World map on a Polar Projection]

Louis Charles Desnos.
Histoire de la Découverte Des Mondes Nouveau et Inconnu.

Paris, c.1770. 290 x 455mm. Original colour.
Double-hemisphere world map, but centred on the Poles. On the map is the 'Mer de l'Ouest', the mythical inland sea in North America. The eastern coastline of Australia is unbroken from New Guinea to Tasmania, via New Caledonia.
DESN0001

[Double-hemisphere World Map on a Polar Projection]

F.A. Garnier.
Tableau des Régions Circumpolaires ou Carte Sphéroïdale des Deux Pôles...

Paris: Renouard, 1862. 530 x 720mm. Original colour.
A large double-hemisphere map showing the world from the poles to the equator, with insets showing Magnetic Dip. Published in the 'Atlas Spheroidal & Universel de Géographie'.
GARN0002

[Miniature Map of the Southern Hemisphere.]

William Faden.
Southern Hemisphere.

London: Faden, 1798. 110 x 130mm. Original colour.
Still showing Tasmania as part of mainland Australia.
FADE0001

[View of Antarctic Icebergs]

Capt. Astil.
Island of Ice, seen by the Ship Æolus, July 9th 1809, Lat. 51.36.S Long. 130.W.

London: J.Stratford, 1810. 235 x 180mm.

ASTI0001

[Early Exploration of the American Arctic]

Churchill.
the Map of Groenland.

London, 1704. 140 x 295mm. Some vague toning.
Published by Churchill to illustrate the voyage of the Dane Jens Munk, who led a Danish expedition in search of the Northwest Passage in 1619-20, during which he was the first to completely map Hudson Bay. Here the Bay has two names, 'King Christians Sea' and 'The New Sea'; on the west shore is marked 'Monks Winter harbour'. Greenland is shown as a large landmass stretching from America almost to Spitzbergen. The mythical Frobisher's Passage through Greenland and island of Friesland are marked.
CHUR0003

[Early Exploration of the American Arctic]

Churchill.
[The North Atlantic.]

London, 1704. 140 x 295mm. Slight creasing.
The North Atlantic with the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland and Labrador. Also marked is the mythical island of Friesland.
CHUR0004

[Arctic]

Isaak Tirion.
Nieuwe Kaart, van de Noord Pool...

Amsterdam, 1735. 235 x 410mm. Original colour.
The North Pole map, showing south to the island of California, the Straits of Gibraltar & Japan.
TIRI0014

[Map of the Northern Hemisphere]

J. Covens & C. Mortier.
L'Hemisphere Septentrionale pour voir plus distinctement Les Terres Arctiques par Guillaume De lisle...

Amsterdam, c.1740. 465 x 515mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of the Northern Hemisphere after De L'Isle.
COVE0003

[Arctic]

Herman Moll.
A Map of the North Pole with all the Territories that lye near it...

London, Thomas Bowles & John Bowles, 1745. 205 x 280mm. Coloured.
Interesting North Pole map.
MOLL0002

[Map of the Antarctic]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
No. 6. Circumjacent the South Pole.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1831. Steel engraving, 300 x 330mm. Original colour.
Map of the South Pole, showing the recently discovered lands, but not attempting to show the ice cap. Below South America are the South Shetlands (discovered by William Smith 1819) and South Orkneys (Powell & Palmer, 1821); south of New Zealand is Macquarie Island (Frederick Hasselborough, 1810); and in the southern Indian Ocean, Kerguelen Island, marked Isle of Desolation.
SDUK0077