An excellent copy with a fine association having previously belonged to fellow Antarctic explorer, R. N. Rudmose Brown (1879-1957).
"Mulock replaced the invalided Shackleton on Scott’s Discovery expedition, and proved himself an excellent cartographer, producing one of the earliest sets of maps for any portion of the Continent" (Taurus). The previous owner of this copy, Rudmose Brown, was a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, which explored the continent during the same years as Scott’s expedition.
The maps are as follows:
Chart of the Antarctic Ocean : between latitudes 66°S and 83°'S and longitudes 150°E and 150°W showing the land tothe south of 74°S...
Sheet 1. Chart of the Antarctic Ocean : between latitudes 80°S and 83°30'S and longitudes 171°E and 150°E showing sledge journeys from "Discovery" in Winter Quarters ...
Sheet 2. Chart of the Antarctic Ocean : between latitudes 77°S and 80°30'S and longitudes 150°E and 171°E showing sledge journeys from "Discovery" in Winter Quarters ...
Sheet 3. Chart of the Antarctic Ocean : between latitudes 74°S and 77°30'S and longitudes 155°E and 176°E showing the track of the "Discovery" National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 ...
Sheet A. Chart of the Antarctic Ocean : showing area surrounding McMurdo Sound, Royal Society Range & Ferrar Glacier.
Sheet B. Chart of the Antarctic Ocean : between latitudes 76°S and 79°S and longitudes 168°E and 150°W showing the track along the Great Ice Barrier and King Edward VII Land of the "Discovery" National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1902-03-04 under the command of R.F. Scott ...
OCLC locates copies at Enoch Pratt, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Glasgow, Nottingham, Oxford, the National History Museum, plus the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Denuce´, 1651-6; Spence, 821; Renard, 1106; Rosove, 233 (“very scarce”); Taurus, 45.
