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Travel & Exploration

3 November 2015 | starting at 13:00 GMT

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148 lots available

BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1913 A collection of ephemera relating to Herbert George Ponting, comprising an Emerson medal for photography, silver-backed brushes and correspondence with the Royal Household, c.1910-1929

C. A. Dunn(late 19th/early 20th Century)A view of the Terra Nova returning to Lyttelton with ensign at half mast

POLAR WILSON (EDWARD ADRIAN) Fine original pen, ink and watercolour study of a brittle star (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea), and ?another echinoderm (possibly a "spaganoid), 1911; and other Polar items, including cut signature of Shackleton on headed paper, 1909 (small collection)

BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1928 Glass bottle with embossed aeroplane design on face above the inscription 'Byrd Antarctic 1928-1929 Expedition' and '3iv' on reverse, 1928; with an autograph cheque signed ("R.E. Byrd") and dated 26 May 1932 and a press photograph of Byrd receiving the Elisha Kent Kane medal for his controversial flight to the North Pole in 1926

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