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Box 0204

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Contains 16 Results:

Winter Harbour, Melville Island./Capt. Parry's Third Voyage.

 Item — Box: 0204, Folder: 01, Item: 11
Identifier: 0204.1.11 A, B
Scope and Contents

(Two hand drawn maps on single sheet: A: Winter Harbour (notes the Tides for May June July) Scale of one mile. B: Prince Regent's Inlet. Cresswell Bay. Batty Bay. Edwin Bay. (Appears in the narrative of Parry's second voyage) [embossed seal with crown and word BATH]

Dates: 1818-1824
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Nineteenth Century British Explorer Maps / Series 1: Arctic Maps

Spitzbergen. /Part of Labrador, Island of Newfoundland.

 Item — Box: 0204, Folder: 01, Item: 12
Identifier: 0204.1.12 A, B
Scope and Contents

(Two very detailed hand drawn maps on single sheet: A: North East Land, New Friesland, Edge's Island, Roebuck Land. B: Strait of Belle Isle, Bay Notre Dame, Avalon, St. John's Bay. (Noted in fine script): The French have the rights of fishery from Cape Ray to C. St. John and the Islands of Miquelon, Langley and St. Pierre. (Appears in Parry's narrative of 1827)

Dates: 1818-1824
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Nineteenth Century British Explorer Maps / Series 1: Arctic Maps

North Africa Maps of places included in Major Dixon Denham's Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, Chapter 1. Three hand drawn maps on one sheet

 Item — Box: 0204, Folder: 02, Item: 13
Identifier: 0204.2.01 A, B, C
Scope and Contents

A: Tuarigks, Fezzan, Morzuk, Tibboo, Desert of Tintuma. B: Houssa, Sackatu, Kotonkora, Youri, Kanu, Guaki. C: Lake Tchad, Kanem, Mandara, Kouka, Bornou.

Dates: 1818-1824
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Nineteenth Century British Explorer Maps / Series 2: Africa

Lake Tchad, Kanem, Bornou, Begharmi (in black ink). Bornou Kanaemboos, Waday Kanemboos (in red ink with a notation: The parts in red ink are only from report. From Denham. 1822/3/4.)

 Item — Box: 0204, Folder: 02, Item: 14
Identifier: 0204.2.02
Dates: 1818-1824
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Nineteenth Century British Explorer Maps / Series 2: Africa

(Assorted Maps)

 Item — Box: 0204, Folder: 03, Item: 15
Identifier: 0204.3.01A, B
Dates: 1818-1824
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Nineteenth Century British Explorer Maps / Series 3: Other Maps

Azores or Western Islands.

 Item — Box: 0204, Folder: 03, Item: 16
Identifier: 0204.3.02
Scope and Contents Azores or Western Islands. (The map shows the entire archipelago of nine islands and their coastal features. The Azores’ strategic location in the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas made them an ideal rendezvous for ships plying the Atlantic. Certainly the British navy following the defeat of the combined French and Spanish navies at Cape Trafalgar in 1805 in the Napoleonic Wars would be interested in any strategically located harbors to maintain control of the far-flung British...
Dates: 1818-1824
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Nineteenth Century British Explorer Maps / Series 3: Other Maps