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Austro-Hungarian International Polar Year Expedition, 1882-1883
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Austro-Hungarian International Polar Year Expedition, 1882-1883

Richard Basso (photographer). Photographische die Aufnahmen von der Insel Jan Mayen, Oesterreichische Polar-Expedition 1882-1883 ausgerüstet von Sr. Excellenz den Grafen Wilczek, Vienna 1884. Oblong 2° 13 x 18in. (33.1 x 45.7cm.). Letterpress title on card (verso blank), letterpress contents on card (verso blank), lithographic map on recto of 2 joined card leaves (fold strengthened with tape), 40 albumen prints, 8½ x 10¼in. (21.6 x 21.6cm.) including paper mounts, and smaller, mounted on card with letterpress title and explanatory text above and below, with calligraphic manuscript translation into French, in red ink [suggesting a French subscriber or recipient]. Unbound as issued in original cloth portfolio (some tears to flaps).

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Austro-Hungarian International Polar Year Expedition, 1882-1883
Richard Basso (photographer). Photographische die Aufnahmen von der Insel Jan Mayen, Oesterreichische Polar-Expedition 1882-1883 ausgerüstet von Sr. Excellenz den Grafen Wilczek, Vienna 1884. Oblong 2° 13 x 18in. (33.1 x 45.7cm.). Letterpress title on card (verso blank), letterpress contents on card (verso blank), lithographic map on recto of 2 joined card leaves (fold strengthened with tape), 40 albumen prints, 8½ x 10¼in. (21.6 x 21.6cm.) including paper mounts, and smaller, mounted on card with letterpress title and explanatory text above and below, with calligraphic manuscript translation into French, in red ink [suggesting a French subscriber or recipient]. Unbound as issued in original cloth portfolio (some tears to flaps).
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A portfolio of photographs by expedition astronomer and photographer Richard Basso which records the Austrian-Hungarian contribution to the International Polar Year 1882-83. The expedition, delivered by the Pola to Jan Mayen in July 1882, wintered over and carried out scientific, meteorological and magnetic observations and a topographical survey of Arctic islands lying between the north of Norway and Greenland.