1877 Engravings - SIBERIA - Captain Wiggins' Expedition - King Patchka, Obdorsk

Description: An interesting group of original engravings published in The Graphic magazine of London dated April 14, 1877 and entitled as follows: "To Siberia by Sea - Notes During Captain Wiggins' Expedition" - see below. The town of Obdorsk, now known as Salekhard, has an estimated population of 50,000 Good condition - see scans. Page size 11 x 16 inches. Unrelated text to the reverse - see scan. These are original engravings and not reproductions. Great collectors item for the historian - see more of these in Seller's Other Items which can be combined for mailing Note: International mailing in a tube is expensive ($18). The quoted international rate assumes the page is lightly folded and mailed in a reinforced envelope Joseph WigginsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchFor the English footballer, see Joe Wiggins.Joseph WigginsJoseph Wiggins FRGS (3 September 1832 – 13 September 1905) was an English mariner, born at Norwich into a family of mailcoach operators.He rounded out a successful career as a sea captain by utilizing a portion of the northern sea route to Siberia. He was the pioneer in demonstrating the practicability of trade relations by sea between the North Sea countries and the northern portion of Siberia. Beginning his voyages in 1874, he twice reached the Ob River, and five times carried cargoes to the Yenisei River, up which stream he once navigated his ship 2000 miles (3218 km). He facilitated the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway by carrying to that country a large cargo of rails.He was honored by the Czar for his pioneer work, which Baron Nordenskiöld described as an "Event rivaling in importance the return of the first fleet loaded with merchandise from India". In 1894 he was awarded the Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society.In 2016, it was reported that the wreck of the steamship Thames, with which Wiggins had made an expedition to the Yenisei River in 1876 and which sank there in 1878, had been discovered.[1]

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Type: antique engraving

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