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Hamilton Watch Co. "992" Open-face Watches from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II
Lot: 27Sold for: $3,690$3,000Hamilton Watch Co. "992" Open-face Watches from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, arabic numeral luminous dial, Mercedes-style hands, and sunk seconds, 21-jewel damascened movements, serial no. ...
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Hamilton Watch Co. "992" Open-face Watches from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II
Lot: 32Sold for: $5,535$4,500Hamilton Watch Co. "992" Open-face Watches from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, arabic numeral luminous dial, Mercedes-style hands, and sunk seconds, 21-jewel damascened movement, serial no. ...
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Byrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Typed Letter Signed, 30 October 1930.
Lot: 1010Sold for: $74$60Byrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Typed Letter Signed, 30 October 1930. Single leaf of Byrd Antarctic Expedition note paper, to Vincent Astor, with personal notes about lecturing and writing his book, ...
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Byrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Two Signed Books; One Unsigned.
Lot: 1112UnsoldByrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Two Signed Books; One Unsigned. Skyward, New York/London: Putnam's Sons, 1928, stated first edition, publisher's blue cloth, unsigned; Little America, New York/London: ...
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Byrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Typed Letter Signed, 30 October 1930.
Lot: 26UnsoldByrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Typed Letter Signed, 30 October 1930. Single leaf of Byrd Antarctic Expedition note paper, to Vincent Astor, with personal notes about lecturing and writing his book, ...
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Byrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Typed Letter Signed, 30 October 1930.
Lot: 1016UnsoldByrd, Richard E. (1888-1957) Typed Letter Signed, 30 October 1930. Single leaf of Byrd Antarctic Expedition note paper, to Vincent Astor, with personal notes about lecturing and writing his book, ...
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Official R.E. Byrd Expedition Globe and Pamphlet
Lot: 1865Sold for: $677$550Official R.E. Byrd Expedition Globe and Pamphlet, Barowe, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, composed of twelve colored gores, showing the major shipping routes and their distances, Russia marked as the Union ...
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Official R.E. Byrd Expedition Globe and Pamphlet
Lot: 969UnsoldOfficial R.E. Byrd Expedition Globe and Pamphlet, Barowe, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, composed of twelve colored gores, showing the major shipping routes and their distances, Russia marked as the Union ...
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Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922) Autograph Letter Signed, 31 December 1907.
Lot: 1088Sold for: $1,046$850Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922) Autograph Letter Signed, 31 December 1907. Single leaf inscribed on one side, on British Antarctic Expedition writing paper, with autograph addressed ...
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Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922) The Heart of the Antarctic.
Lot: 1244Sold for: $984$800Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922) The Heart of the Antarctic. London: Heinemann, 1909. First edition, two large quarto volumes, frontispieces in each volume, illustrated with twelve color ...
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Official R.E. Byrd Expedition Globe and Pamphlet
Lot: 301UnsoldOfficial R.E. Byrd Expedition Globe and Pamphlet, Barowe, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, composed of twelve colored gores, showing the major shipping routes and their distances, Russia marked as the Union ...
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Herbert George Ponting (British, 1870-1935) The Terra Nova Icebound, Scott's Last Expedition
Lot: 105Sold for: $3,998$3,250Herbert George Ponting (British, 1870-1935) The Terra Nova Icebound, Scott's Last Expedition, 1910-11. Signed "HG Ponting" in pencil below the image l.r., titled in pencil below the image l.l. ...
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Flights: Unforgettable Exploits of the Air , Seven Prints, by Frank Lemon (1890-1943) Five Signed by Aviators.
Lot: 26Sold for: $1,230$1,000Flights: Unforgettable Exploits of the Air, Seven Prints, by Frank Lemon (1890-1943) Five Signed by Aviators. [No place]: Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1928. Seven lithographs commemorating ...
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Mackinlay Shackleton Replica 2011
Lot: 108Sold for: $98$80Mackinlay Shackleton Replica 2011 Highland 47.3% abv, recreation of the whisky shipped to Antartica for Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition in 1907 1 700ml bottle (owc) ...
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Blaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890.
Lot: 1188Sold for: $36$30Blaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890. Two inscribed pages on a single wove paper bifolium. To Charles Randall (1824-1904), member of the House of Representatives ...
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Blaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890.
Lot: 17UnsoldBlaine, James G. (1830-1893) Secretarial Letter Signed, July 2, 1890. Two inscribed pages on a single wove paper bifolium. To Charles Randall (1824-1904), member of the House of Representatives ...
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Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922)
Lot: 690Sold for: $19,500$16,456Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir (1874-1922), The Heart of the Antarctic 1907-09 and The Antarctic Book, London: William Heinemann, 1909, Volumes I and II numbered 234 of 300 copies, gilt embossed full ...
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Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871)
Lot: 50Sold for: $7,110$6,000Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871), Autograph manuscript, [c. June, 1845], sixty-four pages, loose within a three-quarter morocco small folio, notes of a speech delivered before the ...
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(Exploration)
Lot: 227Sold for: $889$750(Exploration), A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World, Dublin, 1785, two volumes, with folding map and ten plates, tree calf, 8vo, (wear to calf, ...
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Pair of 12-inch Regency Library Globes by Newton
Lot: 503Sold for: $11,850$10,000Pair of 12-inch Regency Library Globes by Newton, the terrestrial with circular cartouche (part of text missing) Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe, On Which the Most Recent Discoveries Are ...
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Magnificent Pair of 18-inch Newton Library Globes
Lot: 325Sold for: $74,063$62,500Magnificent Pair of 18-inch Newton Library Globes, the terrestrial with cartouche Newton's New & Improved Terrestrial Globe, Accurately Delineated From the Observations of the Most Esteemed ...
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Pair of 12-inch Regency Library Globes by Newton
Lot: 336UnsoldPair of 12-inch Regency Library Globes by Newton, the terrestrial with circular cartouche (part of text missing) Newton's New and Improved Terrestrial Globe, On Which the Most Recent Discoveries Are ...
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Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922)
Lot: 92Sold for: $2,133$1,800Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922), Two signed items; first, signed letter, November 15th, [19]14, one page, to Archdeacon Watkins, "On the eve of my departure from this sub Antarctic Island ...
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12-inch Pasteboard Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere by Delamarche
Lot: 673Sold for: $5,500$5,50012-inch Pasteboard Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere by Delamarche, with 2 1/2-inch terrestrial globe made up of twelve outlined gores, with cartouche Delamarche No. 12, Rue du Jardinet, orbiting Sun and ...
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Wilson 13-inch Terrestrial Globe
Lot: 683Sold for: $5,500$5,500Wilson 13-inch Terrestrial Globe, with cartouche A New American Thirteen-Inch Terrestrial Globe. Exhibiting with the greatest possible accuracy, the Positions of the Principal Known Places of the ...
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(United States Governmental Articles Related to Exploration)
Lot: 147Sold for: $385$325(United States Governmental Articles Related to Exploration), bound group of eleven articles, including messages from the President and the Secretary of the Navy in the House of Representatives, ...
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12-inch Table Globe by Joslin
Lot: 193Sold for: $5,288$4,50012-inch Table Globe by Joslin, with cartouche Joslin's Terrestrial Globe Containing All the Late Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the Most Celebrated Circumnavigators. ...
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11-inch Brass and Pasteboard Armillary Sphere
Lot: 400Unsold11-inch Brass and Pasteboard Armillary Sphere, France, probably Delamarche with later additions, with Sun and Moon discs revolving around the (missing) Earth, four rings with red-painted rims ...
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Eight-inch Terrestrial Globe by Holbrook
Lot: 412Sold for: $940$800Eight-inch Terrestrial Globe by Holbrook, with cartouche Chas. W. Holbrook's Eight Inch GLOBE, made up of twelve colored gores, Arctic hour ring and Antarctic calotte on plaster sphere, with ...
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Joslin's 12-inch Terrestrial Globe
Lot: 246Sold for: $2,233$1,900Joslin's 12-inch Terrestrial Globe, with cartouche Joslin's Terrestrial Globe containing all the Late Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the most celebrated ...