Item #19787 Magnificent voyagers: the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. HERMAN J. VIOLA, EDS CAROLYN MARGOLIS.

Magnificent voyagers: the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.

[Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution], 1985. First edition, 4to, pp. 303; profusely illustrated in color and black & white; fine in original pictorial wrappers. The catalogue to the National Museum of Natural History's exhibition devoted to the U.S. Exploring Expedition, led by Lt. Charles Wilkes. The expedition was the first international hydrographic and scientific survey undertaken by the U.S. government. Among its other achievements, it confirmed the existence of Antarctica as a continent, mapped 800 miles of the coast of Oregon, and surveyed and charted almost 300 islands of the Pacific. The artifacts and natural history specimens collected from all parts of the world still form the core of several research collections at the Natural History Museum. Item #19787

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