COLBECK (WILLIAM) - "DISCOVERY" AND BANZARE EXPEDITIONS


"Royal Geographical Society. The Murchison Grant... Awarded in 1904... to Lieutenant William Colbeck... for the Able Manner in Which He Conducted the Two Relief Expeditions in Connection with the National Antarctic Expedition", SIGNED BY CLEMENT MARKHAM, LEONARD DARWIN AND J.F. HUGHES, paper toned, with a few short marginal tears, 560 x 450mm. [1904]--[MURLOCK (GEORGE F.A, cartographer)] Chart of the Antarctic Ocean... Showing Sledge Journeys from "Discovery" in Winter Quarters, 2 sheets; Chart of the Antarctic Ocean... Showing Area Surrounding McMurdo Sound, Royal Society Range & Ferrar Glacier Surveyed by "Discovery" National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Under the Command of Comdr. R.F. Scott, 2 sheets, printed in black, red and blue, a few short marginal tears, 685 x 1020mm., and smaller--South Polar Chart... With Amendments and Additions to 1927... small corrections [to] 1929", 690 x 865mm., 1929--"Bishop and Clerk Rocks. S.Y. Discovery 1930", PEN AND INK CHART with a small view of the islands beneath the map, black ink (with a few details in red) on paper, 355 x 240mm., [?1930]--MAWSON (DOUGLAS) "Proclamation at Sea" making William R. Colbeck a "member of the Royal Institute of Bogus Navigators and fellow of the Antarctic Dead Marines...", MANUSCRIPT SIGNED BY MAWSON, black ink on one sheet of paper, 595 x 255mm., 18 January 1931--British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition. Track of S.Y. Discovery during two cruises 1929-30 and 1930-31, MANUSCRIPT MAP, black ink, with routes in red and blue, on linen, approximately 530 x 955mm., [1931]; and another, relating to S.Y. Morning's route during the National Antarctic Relief Expedition, 1902 (10)
|William Colbeck, already a veteran of Polar travel having accompanied Carsten Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition in 1898, commanded the S.Y. Morning, the relief ship for Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition, for which he was rewarded the prestigious Murchison Award by the Royal Geographic Society. Colbeck's son, also William Colbeck, continued his father's Antarctic connections, sailing with Sir Douglas Mawson on the Discovery in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) voyages from 1929 to 1931, these events recorded on the manuscript map and the amusing "Proclamation" signed by Mawson in this lot.