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Challenger Expedition
Deep-Sea Fish

These black and white lithographs are cut from the massive Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76 Under the Command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the Late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. Prepared under the Superintendence of the Late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 1885-1895 . Most of these lithographs are by R. Mintern.

These lithographs are in excellent condition, but the binding strip on the double-page plates shows through, slightly darkening the fold at center. The double plates are printed on a single sheet of paper, not separated as the photos might suggest. The prints are whole and intact, trimmed in the photos only.

Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
19 x 12.5 inches (Double Page)

The Challenger Expedition is the most famous oceanographic expedition of all time. Under the command of George Nares, HMS Challenger set out in December, 1872, on a three-year voyage with the mission of exploring the structure and physical composition of the world's ocean beds and determining the temperature and direction of deep-sea currents. In addition, biologists were charged with cataloguing the flora and fauna they encountered. By the end of the voyage, the Challenger had taken hundreds of soundings and traversed more than 68,000 nautical miles

The results of the expedition-- published in 50 volumes--were described by Sir John Murray as the "greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." Besides mapping the ocean floor and showing the existence of such features as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Mariana Trench, the expedition discovered 715 new genera and 4,717 new species of ocean life forms, many of which were found at unheard of depths.

jcorwin@classicnatureprints	Name	Price	Condition
DS15	Antimora viola (Double Page)	45.00	Excellent
DS07	Aphanopus carbo Lepiopus tenuis (Double Page)	Sold	Excellent
DS26	Aphyonus gelatinosus Bathypterois longicauda	35.00	Excellent
DS06	Beryx decadactylus (Double Page)	Sold	Excellent
DS09	Cottonculus microps C. thomsonii	45.00	Excellent
DS42	Euoxymetopon poeyi (Double Page)	55.00	Excellent
DS18	Haloporphyrus guentheri H. eques Macrurus longibarbis (Double Page)	Sold	Excellent
DS13	Lycodes reticulatus (Double Page)	55.00	Excellent
DS40	Macrurus armatus M. affinis (Double Page)	Sold	Excellent
DS31	Macrurus leptolepis	45.00	Excellent
DS11	Melanocetus murrayi M. bispinosus Certias uranoscopus C. carunculatus	Sold	Excellent
DS20	Neobythites macrops Haloporphyrus inosimoe	45.00	Excellent
DS53	Opostomias micripnus Echiostoma barbatum Pachystomias microdon (Double Page)	Sold	Excellent
DS17	Physiculus kaupi Salilota australis (Double Page)	55.00	Excellent
DS04	Raja hyperborea (Double Page)	50.00	Excellent
DS03	Raja isotrachys	50.00	Excellent
DS44	Schedophilus enigmaticus	Sold	Excellent
DS01	Scyllium canescens Polymixia nobilis Setarches fidjiensis	50.00	Excellent