WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE 21 MAY 2022

323 Polar Exploration, lots 554-562 THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 MAY TO 21 MAY 2022 555 Commander Teddy Evans CB RN, 1913 lecture on Captain Scott’s Expedition, signed. Signed in pencil to first page of 12, printed wrappers, well illustrated. Petty Officer Evans was Scott’s second in command on the last expedition and was rescued by Tom Crean. He was promoted to Commander and was made a Companion of The Bath and awarded the Polar Medal. Condition: Fine. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 555 556 Markham, Captain A.H. AWhaling Cruise To Baffin’s Bay and three others of Polar interest by the same author. AWhaling Cruise to Baffin’s Bay, 1875 dedicated to to my friend Sir Henry Gore Booth “ I dedicate this narrative of the cruise of The “Isbjorn” in pleasant remembrance of our companionship in the Artic Seas”; Polar Reconnaissance F.R.G.S 2nd 1881; The World’s Great Explorers - John Franklin, 1891; and The Arctic Campaign of 1879 In The Barents Sea, 1880 paper to the RGS including map. Condition: A Polar Reconnaisance has distressed binding and lacks a plate, otherwise very good. Albert Markham and Gore Booth were sailing and shooting companions. AWhaling Cruise to Baffin’s Bay is dedicated to Gore Booth (of Lissadell, Sligo, father of Constance Markievicz). Markham was on the search of the ‘lost’ Franklin ship. He was a cousin of Clements Markham, head of the Royal Geographic Society, and later held that position himself. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 556