• Title : 1. Figure du Banks 2. Premier Voyage De Cook 3. Troisieme Voyage De Cook
• Ref #:  93498, 93499, 93500
• Size: 4to (Quatro)
• Date : 1774; 1777; 1785
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
A unique and rare opportunity to acquire all three of Captain James Cooks 1st French edition Atlases (4to, Quatro), published to accompany the publication of his 3 voyages of discovery in 1774, 1777 & 1785. The atlases contain a total of 204 large folding, double page and single page maps and prints. It is very rare to find all three atlases complete and available together at the same time.
The contents of all three atlases are in fine condition, with a fresh, heavy impression and clean paper of all maps and prints.

As stated there are 204 maps and prints 51 in the 1st volume, 66 in the second volume and 87 in the second volume. Please view the images above, that include a few images of the 204 maps and prints as well as an itemized list of each volume.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 4to (Quatro)
Plate size: - 4to (Quatro)
Margins: - 4to (Quatro)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Some scuffing and wear to boards & spines
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background:
Timeline First Voyage 1768 - 1771:
In 1768 Cook was chosen to lead an expedition to the South Seas to observe the Transit of Venus and to secretly search for the unknown Great Southern Continent (terra australis incognita).
Cook and his crew of nearly 100 men left Plymouth (August 1768) in the Endeavour and travelled via Madeira (September), Rio de Janiero (November-December) and Tierra del Fuego (January 1769) to Tahiti.
At Tierra del Fuego (January 1769) Cooks men went ashore and met the local people whom Cook thought perhaps as miserable a set of People as are this day upon Earth. Joseph Bankss party collected botanical specimens but his two servants, Thomas Richmond and George Dorlton, died of exposure in the snow and cold. Leaving Tierra del Fuego Endeavour rounded Cape Horn and sailed into the Pacific Ocean.
Sir Joseph Banks wrote about the homes of the Fuegans
..…huts or wigwams of the most unartificial construction imaginable, indeed no thing bearing the name of a hut could possibly be built with less trouble. They consisted of a few poles set up and meeting together at the top in a conical figure, these were covered on the weather side with a few boughs and a little grass, on the lee side about one eighth part of the circle was left open and against this opening was a fire made.......(Banks, Journal I, 224, 20th January 1769)
Samuel Wallis on the ship Dolphin discovered Tahiti in 1767. He recommended the island for the Transit of Venus observations and Cook arrived here in April 1769. Cook, like Wallis two years before him, anchored his ship in the shelter of Matavai Bay on the western side of the island.
In Matavai Bay Cook established a fortified base, Fort Venus, from which he was to complete his first task – the observation of the Transit of Venus (3rd June 1769). The fort also served as protection for all the important scientific and other equipment which had to be taken ashore as:
.......great and small chiefs and common men are firmly of opinion that if they can once get possession of an thing it immediately becomes their own…the chiefs employd in stealing what they could in the cabbin while their dependents took every thing that was loose about the ship…...(Joseph Banks).
Theft by some native peoples plagued Cooks voyages.
Cook and his crew experienced good relations with the Tahitians and returned to the islands on many occasions, attracted by the friendly people of this earthly paradise. On arrival Cook had set out the rules, including:
.....To endeavour by every fair means to cultivate a friendship with the Natives and to treat them with all imaginable humanity....
Just as Cook was planning to leave Tahiti two members of Endeavours crew decided to desert, having strongly attached themselves to two girls, but Cook recovered them.
Cook sailed around the neighbouring Society Islands and took on board the Tahitian priest, Tupaia, and his servant, Taiata. Endeavour left the Society Island in August 1769.
Tupaia acted as interpreter when they came into contact with other Polynesian peoples and helped Cook to make a map of the Pacific islands. This showed Cook the location of islands arranged according to their distance from Tahiti and indicated Tupaias and Polynesian knowledge of navigation and their skill as great mariners.
Cook sailed in search of the Southern Continent (August-October 1769) before turning west to New Zealand. The first encounters with the native Maori of New Zealand in October were violent, their warriors performing fierce dances, or hakas, in attempts to threaten and challenge the ships crew. Some of their warriors were killed when Cooks men had to defend themselves. Eventually relations improved and Cook was able to trade with the Maori for fresh supplies.
Exploring different bays and rivers along the way Cook circumnavigated New Zealand and was the first to accurately chart the whole of the coastline. He discovered that New Zealand consisted of two main islands, north (Te Ika a Maui) and south (Te Wai Pounamu) islands (October 1769-March 1770).
The artist Sydney Parkinson described three Maori who visited the Endeavour on 12th October 1769:
......Most of them had their hair tied up on the crown of their heads in a knot…Their faces were tataowed, or marked either all over, or on one side, in a very curious manner, some of them in fine spiral directions…
This Maori wears an ornamental comb, feathers in a top-knot, long pendants from his ears and a heitiki, or good luck amulet, around his neck.
At the northern end of the south island Cook anchored the ship in Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, which became a favourite stopping place on the following voyages. Parkinson noted:
......The manner in which the natives of this bay (Queen Charlotte Sound) catch their fish is as follows: - They have a cylindrical net, extended by several hoops at the bottom, and contracted at the top; within the net they stick some pieces of fish, then let it down from the side of the canoe and the fish, going in to feed, are caught with great ease.....(Parkinson, Journal, 114)
In Queen Charlottes Sound Cook visited one of the many Maori hippah, or fortified towns.
........The town was situated on a small rock divided from the main by a breach in a rock so small that a man might almost Jump over it; the sides were every where so steep as to render fortifications iven in their way almost totally useless, according there was nothing but a slight Palisade…in one part we observed a kind of wooden cross ornamented with feathers made exactly in the form of a crucifix cross…we were told that it was a monument to a dead man.......
Endeavour left New Zealand and sailed along the east coast of New Holland, or Australia, heading north (April-August 1770). Cook started to chart the east coast and on 29th April landed for the first time in what Cook called Stingray, later, Botany Bay.
The ship struck the Great Barrier Reef and was badly damaged (10 June). Repairs had to be carried out in Endeavour River. (June-August 1770). The first kangaroo to be sighted was recorded and shot.
The inhabitants of New Holland were very different from the people Cook had come across in other Pacific lands. They were darker skinned than the Maori and painted their bodies:
......They were all of them clean limnd, active and nimble. Cloaths they had none, not the least rag, those parts which nature willingly conceals being exposed to view compleatly uncovered......(Joseph Banks)
Tupaia could not make himself understood and at first the aborigines were very wary of the visitors and not at all interested in trading.
Joseph Banks recorded the fishing party observed at Botany Bay on 26 April 1770. He wrote:
......Their canoes… a piece of Bark tied together in Pleats at the ends and kept extended in the middle by small bows of wood was the whole embarkation, which carried one or two…people…paddling with paddles about 18 inches long, one of which they held in either hand.....(Banks, Journal II, 134)
Endeavour left Australia and sailed via the Possession Isle and Endeavour Strait for repairs at Batavia, Java (October-December 1770). Although the crew had been quite healthy and almost free from scurvy, the scourge of sailors, many caught dysentery and typhoid and over thirty died at Batavia or on the return journey home via Cape Town, South Africa (March-April 1771). The ship arrived off Kent, England (July 1771).
The voyage successfully recorded the Transit of Venus and largely discredited the belief in a Southern Continent. Cook charted the islands of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia and the scientists and artists made unique records of the peoples, flora and fauna of the different lands visited.

Timeline - Second Voyage 1772 - 1775
In July 1772 Resolution, commanded by Captain Cook, and Discovery, commanded by Lieutenant Furneaux, set sail from Britain, via Madiera (Jul-Aug) and Cape Town, South Africa (Oct-Nov), towards the Antarctic in search of the Great Southern Continent.
During January 1773 the ships took on fresh water, charts of the voyage being marked with:
......Here we watered our Ship with Ice the 1st. Time 26S 44W and Here we compleated our Water/26S 20W but became separated in thick fog: Here we parted company…. and The Resolutions Track after we parted Company on the 8 of February 1773......
The ships became the first known to have crossed the Antarctic Circle (17 January 1773). On 9th January Cook wrote:
.......we hoisted out three Boats and took up as much as yielded about 15 Tons of Fresh Water, the Adventure at the same time got about 8 or 9 and all this was done in 5 or 6 hours time; the pieces we took up and which had broke from the Main Island, were very hard and solid, and some of them too large to be handled so that we were obliged to break them with our Ice Azes before they could be taken into the Boats...... Cook, Journals II, 74.)
The ships met again in New Zealand (February-May 1773) and set off to explore the central Pacific, calling at Tahiti (August), where, from the island of Raiatea, they took aboard Omai who returned with the Adventure to England (7 September).
After visiting Amsterdam and Middelburg, two islands that Cook called the Friendly Islands (Tongan group) (October) the ships became separated and never met again. Both ships returned separately to New Zealand. (November) A boats crew from the Adventure were killed by Maori (17 December) and the ship sailed for Britain, arriving July 1774.
Cook on Resolution attempted another search for the Great Southern Continent (November 1773), crossing the Antarctic Circle on 20th December 1773. However, the ice and cold soon forced him to turn north again and he made another search in the central Pacific for the Great Southern Continent. In January 1774 he turned south again, crossing the Antarctic Circle for the second time. Captain Cooks Journal, 2nd January 1774.
Cook sailed north, arriving at Easter Island in March 1774. Cook was too ill to go ashore but a small party explored the southern part of the island. The artist William Hodges painted a group of the large statues of heads (moia) for which the island has become famous.
Cook then sailed to the Marquesas (March); Tahiti (April) and Raiatea (June); past the Cook Islands and Niue, or Savage Islands as Cook called them; Tonga (June); Vatoa, the only Fijian Island visited by Cook (July); New Hebrides (July-August); New Caledonia (September) and Norfolk Island (October); before returning to New Zealand (October 1774).
Not all the peoples of the islands visited by Cook were friendly and when his ship approached Niue the local people would not let his crew ashore. Cook wrote:
.......The Conduct and aspect of these Islanders occasioned my giving it the Name of Savage Island, it lies in the Latitude of 19 degrees 1 Longitude 169 degrees 37 West, is about 11 Leagues in circuit, of a tolerable height and seemingly covered with wood amongst which were some Cocoa-nutt trees......(Cook, Journals II, 435, 22 June 1774.)
En route for New Zealand, Cook sailed west and explored the islands which he called the New Hebrides, now known as Vanuatu, arriving on 17 July 1774. The people were Melanesian, not Polynesian, and spoke different languages and had different customs. Cook recorded:
........The Men go naked, it can hardly be said they cover their Natural parts, the Testicles are quite exposed, but they wrap a piece of cloth or leafe round the yard (nautical slang for the penis) which they tye up to the belly to a cord or bandage which they wear round the waist just under the Short ribs and over the belly and so tight that it was a wonder to us how they could endure it.......(Cook, Journals II, 464, 23 July 1774)
Cook sailed past or visited nearly all the islands in the group, including landfalls at Malekula, Tanna and Erromango. He later moved on to New Caledonia.
Cooks reception by the New Hebrideans was generally hostile. At Erromango during the landing on 4th August 1774 the marines had to open fire when the natives tried to seize the boat and started to fire missiles. Cook wrote:
....…I was very loath to fire upon such a Multitude and resolved to make the chief a lone fall a Victim to his own treachery…happy for many of these poor people not half our Musquets would go of otherwise many more must have fallen.......(Cook, Journals II, 479, 4th August 1774)
Some of Cooks crew were slightly injured but several natives were wounded and their leader killed. Back on the ship Cook had a gun fired to frighten off the islanders and decided to depart.
Cook left New Zealand to return to Britain via the Southern Ocean in November 1774 and arrived in Tierra del Fuego, South America, in December. Cook took on stores and spent the holiday in what he called Christmas Sound. He described the area:......except those little tufts of shrubbery, the whole country was a barren Tack (or Rock) doomed by Nature to everlasting sterility......(Cook, Ms Journal PRO Adm 55/108)
Cook left South America in early January 1775 and set off across the southern Atlantic for Cape Town, South Africa. On the way he tried to confirm the location of a number of islands charted by Alexander Dalrymple on an earlier voyage. On 17 January 1775 Cook arrived at the cold, bleak, glaciated island he called South Georgia and spent 3 days charting it before sailing on.
Cook headed east and in late January came across the South Sandwich Islands that he again charted and then sailed on to Cape Town, arriving in late March 1775. He then headed across the Atlantic via St. Helena and Ascension Island (May), the Azores (July) and landed at Portsmouth on 30th July 1775.
On his return Cook became a national hero. He was presented to the King, made a member of the Royal Society and received its Copley Medal for achievement. Cook was promoted to post-captain of Greenwich Hospital and wrote up his account of the voyage. This did not mean retirement for Cook who went on his third and final voyage the following year.
The second voyage was one of the greatest journeys of all time. During the three years the ships crews had remained healthy and only four of the Resolutions crew had died. Cook disproved the idea of the Great Southern Continent; had become the first recorded explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle; and had charted many Pacific islands for the first time.

Timeline - Third Voyage 1776 - 1780
In 1776 Cook sailed in a repaired Resolution (July) to search for the North West Passage and to return Omai to his home on Huahine in the Society Islands.
He sailed via the Canary Islands and was joined at Cape Town, South Africa, by the Discovery, commanded by Charles Clerke.
The Discovery was the smallest of Cooks ships and was manned by a crew of sixty-nine. The two ships were repaired and restocked with a large number of livestock and set off together for New Zealand ( December).
Cook sailed across the South Indian Ocean and confirmed the location of Desolation Island, later known as Kerguelen Island. Cook wrote of Christmas Harbour where he first anchored on 25th December 1776:
........I found the shore in a manner covered with Penguins and other birds and Seals…so fearless that we killed as ma(n)y as we chose for the sake of their fat or blubber to make Oil for our lamps and other uses… Here I displayd the British flag and named the harbour Christmas harbour as we entered it on that Festival........(Cook, Journals III, i, 29-32)
Cook sailed east, arriving at Van Diemens Land/Tasmania (January 1777) and Queen Charlottes Sound, New Zealand (February). The Maori were wary at first, expecting Cook to take revenge for the killing of members of the Adventures crew in 1773, but instead Cook befriended the leader of the attack.
The ships stayed for nearly two weeks in New Zealand, restocking with wild celery and scurvy grass and trading with the local Maori who set up a small village in Ship Cove. Cook set off around the islands of the south Pacific (February), visiting the Cook Islands (April); Tongan Islands (July); and Tahiti (August-December 1777)
In 1778 Cook visited the Hawaiian islands, or Sandwich Islands as he named them, for the first time. Cook wrote:
........We no sooner landed, that a trade was set on foot for hogs and potatoes, which the people gave us in exchange for nails and pieces of iron formed into some thing like chisels….At sun set I brought every body on board, having got during the day Nine tons of water….about sixty or eighty Pigs, a few Fowls, a quantity of potatoes and a few plantains and Tara roots.......(Cook, Journals III, i. 269 & 272)
In February 1778 Cook sailed from the Hawaiian Islands across the north Pacific to the Oregan coast of North America. He travelled up the coast in bad weather until he found a safe harbour, Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada. There he refitted the ships, explored the area and developed relations with the local people.
Cook described a village there, probably Yoquot:
….their houses or dwellings are situated close to the shore…Some of these buildings are raised on the side of a bank, theses have a flooring consisting of logs supported by post fixed in the ground….before these houses they make a platform about four feet broad…..so allows of a passage along the front of the building: They assend to this passage (along the front of the building) by steps, not unlike some at our landing places in the River Thames........(Cook, Journals III, i, 306)
Cook left Nootka Sound in April 1778 and sailed north along the Alaskan coast looking for inlets that might lead to the Northwest passage but was then forced to turn south. By July he had rounded the Alaskan Peninsula and was able to sail north again, visiting the Chukotskiy Peninsula, Russia, before heading out into the Bering Sea.
Cook described the summer huts, or yarangas, of the Chukchi people as:
.........pretty large, and circular and brought to a point at the top; the framing was of slight poles and bone, covered with the skins of Sea animals…About the habitations were erected several stages ten or twelve feet high, such as we had observed on some part of the American coast, they were built wholly of bones and seemed to be intended to dry skins, fish &ca. upon, out of reach of their dogs........(Cook, Journals III, I, 413)
After entering the Bering Sea on 11th August 1778, Cook crossed the Arctic Circle and went as far north as latitude 70 degrees 41 North before being forced back by the pack ice off Icy Cape, Alaska. On the ice all around the ships were large numbers of walruses. About a dozen of these huge animals were killed to replenish the supplies of fresh meat and to provide oil for the lamps.
Cook had to turn west and worked his way down the Russian coast, eventually heading south and east into Norton Sound, Alaska, in September 1778. He wrote of their very brief encounter with the inhabitants of Norton Sound:
....…a family of the Natives came near to the place where we were taking off wood…I saw no more than a Man, his wife and child…...(Cook, Journals III, I, 438)
After a short period spent searching for the Northwest Passage Cook realised that it was too late in the year to make any progress and so sailed for warmer winter quarters in the Hawaiian Islands, arriving there in December 1778.
After circumnavigating the big island of Hawaii for over a month the ships finally anchored in Kealakekua Bay on 16th January 1779. The Hawaiians in over 1000 canoes came out to welcome them, the arrival of the ships coinciding with celebrations to mark the religious festival of Makahiki to the god Lono. The Hawaiians seem to have treated Cook as a personification of the god and at first relations were good on this second visit. However, relationships became strained and Cook left the island on 4th February 1779.
When Cook left Hawaii his ships ran into gales which broke a mast, forcing him to return to Kealakekua Bay for repairs on 11th February. This time the native people were less friendly and stole the cutter of the Discovery. The next day, the 14th February 1779, Cook went ashore to take the Hawaiian king into custody pending the return of the cutter but a fight developed and Cook, four of his marines and a number of natives were killed. Cooks remains were buried at sea in Kealakekua Bay.
Charles Clerke took over command of the stunned expedition and explored the other Hawaiian islands before sailing north to search for the North-West Passage. The ships called at Kamchatka, Russia, (April-June) where they were welcomed by the governor, Behm, at Bolsheretsk. Behm took news of the expedition and Cooks death overland to St. Petersburg from where it reached Europe and Britain.
Having made another voyage into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage (June-July) the ships returned to Kamchatka in August. In November they set off sailing south along the east coast of Japan, between Taiwan and the Phillipines and arrived at Macao, China, in December.
In January 1780 the expeditions left for home, crossing the Indian Ocean, calling at Cape Town (April-May) and arriving back in Stromness, Orkney, in August but not returning to London until October 1780.
News of Cooks death reached Britain in January 1780, ahead of the return of Resolution and Discovery in October 1780. The voyage was written up and published and Cooks life gradually commemorated in articles, books, medals and monuments.
The achievements of the voyage were overshadowed by the deaths of both Cook and his second-in-command, Clerke. The main purpose of the voyage, the discovery of the Northwest Passage, was not realised but large tracts of the Pacific and Arctic coasts of America and Russia were charted.
Early attempts to summarise the life of Cook appeared in the popular press soon after news of his death reached Britain. Articles in journals such as the Westminster Magazine, published in January 1780, included Biographical Anecdotes of Capt. Cook, charting his life from his birth in Marton, North Yorkshire. The first published biography of Cook, Life of Captain James Cook, by Andrew Kippis, appeared a few years later in 1788.

• Title : A man of Mangea; A view at Anamooka; The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee; A boxing match, in Hapaee; A night dance by men, in Hapaee; A night dance by women, in Hapaee; Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands; Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava; A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo; The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo; A woman of Eaoo; A human sacrifice, in a marai; The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death; A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present; A dance in Otaheite; A young woman of Otaheite, dancing;  A view of Huaheine
• Ref  :  61255; 61256; 61257; 61258; 61259; 61260; 61261; 61262; 61263; 61264; 61265; 61266; 61267; 61220; 61221; 61222; 61223.
• Size: 21in x 15 1/2in (535mm x 395mm) each
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
This is an original set of seventeen large first-edition antique prints (Plates #11, 13, 14,  15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31) a complete visual record of Captain James Cooks third and final visit to the South Pacific, from the Cook islands to the Society Islands, in 1777. The original drawings by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) were expertly engraved by William Sharp, William Byrne, James Heath, Isaac Taylor, William Sharp, William Sharp, James hall, William Sharp, William Ellis, Samuel Middleman & James Hall, James Hall, William Woollett, William Byrne, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Keyse Sherwin, Jon Keyse Sherwin, William Byre respectively, for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned First edition account of Cooks third voyage of discovery: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

In 1777 Captain James Cook sailed the Resolution and Discovery from New Zealand into the heart of Polynesia, with the artist John Webber recording each landfall. This set of seventeen engravings follows the voyage island by island.
At Mangaia in the Cook Islands, reef and surf kept the ships offshore, and only a boat party, including the Tahitian Omai, made contact with the islanders, giving us Plate 11, A Man of Mangea.
From April to July the ships stayed in Tonga. At Nomuka the crews traded iron and beads for food, filled the water casks and set up an observatory (Plate 13, A View at Anamooka). At Lifuka the chief Finau welcomed them with a formal reception, boxing matches and night dances by men and by women, which Cook answered with gifts and fireworks (Plates 14 to 17). On Tongatapu Cook spent several weeks in the company of Poulaho, paramount chief of Tonga, who appears in Plate 18 and in Plate 20 drinking kava. Cook visited the sacred burial ground at Mu'a (Plate 21, A Fiatooka) and watched the Natche, a ceremony honoring Poulaho's son (Plate 22), while the ships were repaired and restocked. A short visit to neighboring Eua produced Plate 23, A Woman of Eaoo.
In August the ships reached Tahiti, where the crews rested and traded at Matavai Bay. Webber drew the human sacrifice that Cook found so disturbing (Plate 25), the preserved body of the chief Tee (Plate 26), and the dances and portraits of Plates 27 to 29.
The voyage closes in October at Huahine, where Cook settled Omai in a house built by the crews, with a garden, livestock and gifts. Plate 31, A View of Huaheine, is the final image in the set.

Together these plates are an eyewitness record of Pacific peoples, ceremonies and landscapes at the moment of first sustained European contact, and a rewarding collection for the historian, university, museum or library. Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific, American & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21in x 15 1/2in (535mm x 395mm)
Plate size: - Various sizes.
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light spotting pl. 11, 29; crease & small repair bottom left margin pl. 23; 
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter - 16in x 10in (405mm x 255mm)
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka - 10in x 7 1/2in (255mm x 190mm)
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka - 13 1/2in x 9 1/2in (345mm x 240mm)
• Plate 73 — A white bear - 10 1/2in x 8 1/2in (265mm x 215mm)
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul - 20 1/2in x 10in (520mm x 255mm)
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka - 12in x 9 1/2in (305mm x 240mm)
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka - 12in x 9 1/2in (305mm x 240mm)
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka - 16in x 9 1/2in (405mm x 240mm)
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka - 16 1/2in x 10in (420mm x 255mm)

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Cartes et figures des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique, actuellement régnante ; pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional, et successivement exécutés par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook dans les vaisseaux. MDCCLXXIV (1774)
• Size: 4to (Quatro)
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition
• Date : 1774
• Ref #:  35632

Description:
This original antique Atlas containing 52 maps and prints, as called for, from some of the foremost explorers of the mid 18th century, including Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis & Captain James Cook, was published as the 1st French edition of Cartes et figures des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique: (Maps and Figures of Travels undertaken by Order of his Present Reigning British Majesty) in 1774, published after only a year after the 1st English edition by John Hawkesworth.

The 52 prints and maps contained in this atlas chart in maps, prints and plans, the progression in the exploration of the South Seas of the 4 explorers. But there is of course, the standout amongst these 4 explorers and that is of course Captain James Cook.
At the time of the publication of this tome, Cook had returned from his first voyage of exploration to The South Pacific, becoming the first European to survey and chart the coastline of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. But at this point Cook was not as famous as he was destined to become, after completing 2 more voyages of exploration, and in turn becoming the most famous explorer of his era.
The majority of this atlas contains the prints and maps dedicated to Cooks 1st Voyage of Discovery including the two famous maps, one of New Zealand and the other the East Coast of Australia. All voyages can be tracked from the first large folding map of the South Seas, at the beginning of the Atlas, that illustrates the tracks on Cook and the other 3 explorers.

In-4 binding in half-calf, spine with five bands with gilding boxes and title label complete with 52 folding & single plates
Spine & boards in poor condition with lack of leather and scratched covers, contents tights with plates in very good condition.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 4to (Quatro)
Plate size: - 4to (Quatro)
Margins: - 4to (Quatro)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light age toning - Maps & Prints
Plate area: - Folds as issued - Maps & Prints
Verso: - Folds as issued - Maps & Prints

Background:
Capt. Cook First Voyage 1768 - 1771:
In 1768 Cook was chosen to lead an expedition to the South Seas to observe the Transit of Venus and to secretly search for the unknown Great Southern Continent (terra australis incognita).
Cook and his crew of nearly 100 men left Plymouth (August 1768) in the Endeavour and travelled via Madeira (September), Rio de Janiero (November-December) and Tierra del Fuego (January 1769) to Tahiti.
At Tierra del Fuego (January 1769) Cooks men went ashore and met the local people whom Cook thought perhaps as miserable a set of People as are this day upon Earth. Joseph Bankss party collected botanical specimens but his two servants, Thomas Richmond and George Dorlton, died of exposure in the snow and cold. Leaving Tierra del Fuego Endeavour rounded Cape Horn and sailed into the Pacific Ocean.
Sir Joseph Banks wrote about the homes of the Fuegans
..…huts or wigwams of the most unartificial construction imaginable, indeed no thing bearing the name of a hut could possibly be built with less trouble. They consisted of a few poles set up and meeting together at the top in a conical figure, these were covered on the weather side with a few boughs and a little grass, on the lee side about one eighth part of the circle was left open and against this opening was a fire made.......(Banks, Journal I, 224, 20th January 1769)
Samuel Wallis on the ship Dolphin discovered Tahiti in 1767. He recommended the island for the Transit of Venus observations and Cook arrived here in April 1769. Cook, like Wallis two years before him, anchored his ship in the shelter of Matavai Bay on the western side of the island.
In Matavai Bay Cook established a fortified base, Fort Venus, from which he was to complete his first task – the observation of the Transit of Venus (3rd June 1769). The fort also served as protection for all the important scientific and other equipment which had to be taken ashore as:
.......great and small chiefs and common men are firmly of opinion that if they can once get possession of an thing it immediately becomes their own…the chiefs employd in stealing what they could in the cabbin while their dependents took every thing that was loose about the ship…...(Joseph Banks).
Theft by some native peoples plagued Cooks voyages.
Cook and his crew experienced good relations with the Tahitians and returned to the islands on many occasions, attracted by the friendly people of this earthly paradise. On arrival Cook had set out the rules, including:
.....To endeavour by every fair means to cultivate a friendship with the Natives and to treat them with all imaginable humanity....
Just as Cook was planning to leave Tahiti two members of Endeavours crew decided to desert, having strongly attached themselves to two girls, but Cook recovered them.
Cook sailed around the neighbouring Society Islands and took on board the Tahitian priest, Tupaia, and his servant, Taiata. Endeavour left the Society Island in August 1769.
Tupaia acted as interpreter when they came into contact with other Polynesian peoples and helped Cook to make a map of the Pacific islands. This showed Cook the location of islands arranged according to their distance from Tahiti and indicated Tupaias and Polynesian knowledge of navigation and their skill as great mariners.
Cook sailed in search of the Southern Continent (August-October 1769) before turning west to New Zealand. The first encounters with the native Maori of New Zealand in October were violent, their warriors performing fierce dances, or hakas, in attempts to threaten and challenge the ships crew. Some of their warriors were killed when Cooks men had to defend themselves. Eventually relations improved and Cook was able to trade with the Maori for fresh supplies.
Exploring different bays and rivers along the way Cook circumnavigated New Zealand and was the first to accurately chart the whole of the coastline. He discovered that New Zealand consisted of two main islands, north (Te Ika a Maui) and south (Te Wai Pounamu) islands (October 1769-March 1770).
The artist Sydney Parkinson described three Maori who visited the Endeavour on 12th October 1769:
......Most of them had their hair tied up on the crown of their heads in a knot…Their faces were tataowed, or marked either all over, or on one side, in a very curious manner, some of them in fine spiral directions…
This Maori wears an ornamental comb, feathers in a top-knot, long pendants from his ears and a heitiki, or good luck amulet, around his neck.
At the northern end of the south island Cook anchored the ship in Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, which became a favourite stopping place on the following voyages. Parkinson noted:
......The manner in which the natives of this bay (Queen Charlotte Sound) catch their fish is as follows: - They have a cylindrical net, extended by several hoops at the bottom, and contracted at the top; within the net they stick some pieces of fish, then let it down from the side of the canoe and the fish, going in to feed, are caught with great ease.....(Parkinson, Journal, 114)
In Queen Charlottes Sound Cook visited one of the many Maori hippah, or fortified towns.
........The town was situated on a small rock divided from the main by a breach in a rock so small that a man might almost Jump over it; the sides were every where so steep as to render fortifications iven in their way almost totally useless, according there was nothing but a slight Palisade…in one part we observed a kind of wooden cross ornamented with feathers made exactly in the form of a crucifix cross…we were told that it was a monument to a dead man.......
Endeavour left New Zealand and sailed along the east coast of New Holland, or Australia, heading north (April-August 1770). Cook started to chart the east coast and on 29th April landed for the first time in what Cook called Stingray, later, Botany Bay.
The ship struck the Great Barrier Reef and was badly damaged (10 June). Repairs had to be carried out in Endeavour River. (June-August 1770). The first kangaroo to be sighted was recorded and shot.
The inhabitants of New Holland were very different from the people Cook had come across in other Pacific lands. They were darker skinned than the Maori and painted their bodies:
......They were all of them clean limnd, active and nimble. Cloaths they had none, not the least rag, those parts which nature willingly conceals being exposed to view compleatly uncovered......(Joseph Banks)
Tupaia could not make himself understood and at first the aborigines were very wary of the visitors and not at all interested in trading.
Joseph Banks recorded the fishing party observed at Botany Bay on 26 April 1770. He wrote:
......Their canoes… a piece of Bark tied together in Pleats at the ends and kept extended in the middle by small bows of wood was the whole embarkation, which carried one or two…people…paddling with paddles about 18 inches long, one of which they held in either hand.....(Banks, Journal II, 134)
Endeavour left Australia and sailed via the Possession Isle and Endeavour Strait for repairs at Batavia, Java (October-December 1770). Although the crew had been quite healthy and almost free from scurvy, the scourge of sailors, many caught dysentery and typhoid and over thirty died at Batavia or on the return journey home via Cape Town, South Africa (March-April 1771). The ship arrived off Kent, England (July 1771).
The voyage successfully recorded the Transit of Venus and largely discredited the belief in a Southern Continent. Cook charted the islands of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia and the scientists and artists made unique records of the peoples, flora and fauna of the different lands visited.

Vice-Admiral John Byron (1723-1786) was a British naval officer and explorer. He is known for his circumnavigation of the globe aboard the HMS Dolphin, completing one of the first British expeditions to achieve this feat. His account of the voyage, "The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron," influenced subsequent explorations. Byron's naval career included service in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.

Rear-Admiral Philip Carteret (1733-1796) was a British naval officer and explorer. He is best known for his role as the captain of HMS Swallow during the first circumnavigation of the globe. Carteret's expedition, which took place from 1766 to 1769, aimed to explore and map uncharted regions of the Pacific Ocean. His discoveries included the Carteret Islands and the Pitcairn Islands. Carteret's voyage greatly contributed to the knowledge of Pacific geography and exploration during that time.

Samuel Wallis (1728-1795) was a British naval officer and explorer. He is renowned for leading the first recorded European expedition to visit Tahiti and for his significant contributions to the exploration of the Pacific Ocean. In 1766, Wallis commanded HMS Dolphin on a voyage funded by the British Admiralty. During the expedition, he discovered and named several islands, including Tahiti, which he encountered in June 1767. Wallis's visit to Tahiti marked the beginning of sustained European contact with the island and its inhabitants. His exploration efforts and subsequent reports greatly expanded European knowledge of the Pacific region. Wallis's achievements laid the foundation for future explorations and influenced subsequent voyages of exploration in the Pacific.

John Hawkesworth 1715 -1775
An English writer and journalist, Hawkesworth was commissioned by the British Admiralty to edit for publication the narratives of its officers circumnavigations. He was given full access to the journals of the commanders and the freedom to adapt and re-tell them in the first person. Cook was already on his way back from his second Pacific voyage, temporarily docked at Cape Town (South Africa), when he first saw the published volumes: he was mortified and furious to find that Hawkesworth claimed in the introduction that Cook had seen and blessed (with slight corrections) the resulting manuscript. (In his defense, Hawkesworth also had been a victim of misunderstanding.) Cook had trouble recognizing himself. Moreover, the work was full of errors and commentary introduced by Hawkesworth and, in Cooks view, too full of Banks, who had promoted himself and the publication. Still, the work was popular; the first edition sold out in several months.

Cook , Capt. James 1728-1779
James Cook was born on 27 October 1728 in Marton, England. His father was a poor farm labourer who had worked his way up to Overseer. James began as a farm labourer and grocer\\\'s assistant. He soon found employment on the Baltic sea in a Collier (coal transport ship) at the age of 18.
During the war with the French in 1755, James Cook enlisted as an Able Seaman on the Eagle. Within a month he was promoted, because of outstanding ability, to Masters Mate. Four years later he was promoted to Master. In command of his own ship, James Cook performed a crucial charting of the St. Lawrence River, which made possible the great amphibious assault upon Quebec City in 1759. In 1763 he was given command of the schooner Grenville to survey the eastern coasts of Canada over a four year period. These excellent charts were used up until the early part of the 20th century.
James Cook was selected to lead a 1768 expedition to observe the transit of Venus, and to explore new lands in the Pacific Ocean. In his first Pacific voyage, James Cook rounded Cape Horn in the Endeavour and reached Tahiti on 3 June 1769. After recovering a necessary scientific instrument stolen by the natives, the transit of Venus was successfully observed. The Endeavour then spent six months charting New Zealand. James Cook next explored and claimed possession of eastern Australia. Returning to England, on 12 June 1771, via New Guinea, Java and the Cape of Good Hope, the crew suffered an appalling 43% fatality rate. James Cook thus became very concerned about crew health on subsequent voyages. He instituted compulsory dietary reforms that were copied by many other ship captains.
The object of Captain Cook\\\'s second Pacific Ocean voyage was to confirm the existence of a theorized Great Southern Continent. His ship the Resolution, accompanied by the Adventure, departed Plymouth on 13 July 1772 and sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Beset by ice, he was unable to reach Antarctica. Although its existence was suspected, James Cook demonstrated, by traversing large areas of the south Pacific, that it would have to be a frigid wasteland, and not an economically productive addition to the British empire. James Cook charted many of the South Pacific islands with the incredible accuracy of 3 miles. This accuracy was made possible by a new and highly accurate clock. The two ships returned to England, via Cape Horn, on 29 July 1775. The experimental diets and close attention to cleanliness had a miraculous effect: out of a crew of 118, only one man was lost to disease! Since public interest was high, the many paintings by the artists were widely displayed and published as engravings. James Cook was also awarded the Copley Gold Medal and elected as a fellow of the Royal Society.
The third great voyage is especially significant to the history of the west coast of North America. Captain Cook and his men were primarily searching for the Northwest Passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. They departed Plymouth on 12 July 1776 in the Resolution and the Discovery.
The ships sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to reach the west coast of America in February of 1778. They continued north along the coast in haste to the Bering Sea and Bering Strait in an attempt to pass through the Arctic Ocean during the summer season. Foiled by ice, James Cook returned to Hawaii to prepare for another attempt at the Northwest Passage the next season. Soon after they had departed, a storm damaged the foremast of the Resolution and forced a return to Kealakekua Bay for repairs. Unfortunately, they had previously overstayed their welcome and relations became tense. The theft of a ship\\\'s cutter led Captain Cook to put ashore to demand the return of the boat. A fight broke out and James Cook was killed on 14 Feb 1779 by angry natives. Although his men made another attempt at the Northwest Passage, they were unsuccessful. The expedition did identify the possibilities of trade with the coastal American natives for otter seal furs, which could then be bartered for Chinese goods that were highly prized in England.

• Title : A Man of Kamtschatka, Travelling in Winter; A Sledge of Kamtschatka; A View at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka; A White Bear; A View of the Town and Harbour of St Peter and St Paul, in Kamtschatka; A Man of Kamtschatka; A Woman of Kamtschatka; Summer and Winter Habitations in Kamtschatka; The Inside of a Winter Habitation in Kamtschatka.
• Ref  :  61231; 61273; 61232; 61233; 61274; 61234; 61235; 61236; 61275.
• Size: 21in x 15 1/2in (535mm x 395mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
This scarce, complete set of nine first-edition large antique prints (Plates #70 through #78) represents the entire visual record from the third expedition's historic visit to Kamchatka, Siberia. These illustrations were captured during the spring and summer of 1779 during the crew's second, unsuccessful attempt to locate the elusive Northwest Passage following Captain James Cook's tragic death. The original drawings by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) were expertly engraved by Samuel Middleman; Thomas Goodyer; Paul Benezech; Peter Mazell; B T Pouncy; William Sharp; Samuel Smith; William Sharp respectively for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks third and final journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

In 1778 the expedition had surveyed the North American coast from Nootka Sound to Alaska, passed through the Bering Strait, and been turned back by pack ice off Icy Cape in August. They then wintered in Hawaii, where Cook was killed in February 1779.
The expedition returned to the NW American coast on 29 April 1779, under Charles Clerke and John Gore, and stayed until 16 June. The Russians at the settlement of St Peter and St Paul (now Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) helped with provisions and repairs and forwarded the expedition's dispatches, and Webber drew the settlement in "A View of the Town and Harbour of St Peter and St Paul, in Kamtschatka." Officers, including James King and Webber, also travelled to Bolcheretzkoi (now Bolsheretsk), on Kamchatka's west coast, to meet the Russian commandant, Major Behm, which is the subject of "A View at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka." Webber's studies of the people he met became "A Man of Kamtschatka" and "A Woman of Kamtschatka" (Kamtschatka being the spelling of Kamchatka used in 1784), and his drawings of how they lived became "Summer and Winter Habitations in Kamtschatka" and "The Inside of a Winter Habitation in Kamtschatka." Winter travel, which the crews saw in the local dog teams, appears in "A Sledge of Kamtschatka" and "A Man of Kamtschatka, Travelling in Winter."
The ships left on 16 June for a second, failed attempt on the Arctic ice, and "A White Bear" recalls those northern waters. Clerke died on 22 August, and the ships were back at Petropavlovsk by 24 August, where he was buried. Webber's panoramic drawing of the town dates from late August and early September 1779.
The ships finally left Kamchatka in October, bound for Macau and home.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific, American & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21in x 15 1/2in (535mm x 395mm)
Plate size: - Various sizes please see below in background for individual sizes.
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter - 16in x 10in (405mm x 255mm)
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka - 10in x 7 1/2in (255mm x 190mm)
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka - 13 1/2in x 9 1/2in (345mm x 240mm)
• Plate 73 — A white bear - 10 1/2in x 8 1/2in (265mm x 215mm)
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul - 20 1/2in x 10in (520mm x 255mm)
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka - 12in x 9 1/2in (305mm x 240mm)
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka - 12in x 9 1/2in (305mm x 240mm)
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka - 16in x 9 1/2in (405mm x 240mm)
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka - 16 1/2in x 10in (420mm x 255mm)

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Man of Oonalashka; A Woman of Oonalashka; Canoes of Oonalashka; Caps of the Natives of Oonalashka; Natives of Oonalashka, and their Habitations; The inside of a House, in Oonalashka
• Ref  : 61225, 61226, 61227, 61229, 61230, 61272
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (545mm x 400mm) appr. ea
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
These scarce first-edition large antique prints, plates #48, 49, 50, 56, 57, 58, a complete set of the 6 prints engraved of Unalaska (Oonalashka) part of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Sharp, Jean Marie Delattre, William Angus, James Record, James Hall, Samuel Middleman and William Sharp respectively for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's ships reached Unalaska, in the eastern Aleutian Islands, in early October 1778, after a summer spent searching for a northern passage as far as the Bering Strait and the edge of the Arctic ice. The ships needed repairs, especially the leaking Resolution, and they anchored in a sheltered harbour on the island's north side that Cook called Samgoonoodha, where they stayed until late October. The local people were the Unangâx̂ (Aleut), who came out in skin kayaks to trade and brought fish and other supplies. Russian fur traders were also established there, and the Unangâx̂ were already caught up in their sea otter fur trade. Cook was surprised to meet a Russian trader named Gerasim Izmailov, who came to the ships and shared his knowledge of the coast. Izmailov showed Cook Russian charts, which helped Cook correct his own understanding of the region's geography and confirmed that there was no easy passage through it. Cook sent letters and a copy of his charts back to Europe by way of Russia, since Izmailov's party could carry them overland. Webber drew the Unangâx̂ and their dress, and his sketches and the published descriptions became an important record of Aleutian life at that time. The expedition left Unalaska on 26 October, heading south to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) for the winter. It was the last stop on the North American coast before the voyage that led to Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay in 1779.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific, Polar and NW American exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (545mm x 400mm) appr. ea
Plate size: - Various pls see below in background
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka - 12in x 8 1/4in (305mm x 210mm) - Plate
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka - 12in x 8 1/4in (305mm x 210mm)
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka - 10 1/4in x 8in (305mm x 205mm)
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka - 11in x 8in (280mm x 205mm)
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations - 16 1/4in x 10in (415mm x 255mm)
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka - 15 3/4in x 10in (400mm x 255mm)

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Kaart van Nieuw Zeeland in de Jaaren 1769 en 1770 bezogt door den Luitenant J Cook met het Schip De Endeavour (Chart of New Zealand explored in 1769 and 1770 by Lieutenant. J. Cook Commander of his Ship Endeavour)
• Date : 1774
• Size:  21in x 16 1/2in (530mm x 420mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Ref:  35674

Description:
This magnificent large original copper plate engraved scarce antique map, the first printed chart of New Zealand by Captain James Cook, during his circumnavigation of the South Pacific in 1769-70, was published in the 1st Dutch edition of Hawkeworths Voyages in 1774 by Reiner Arrenberg Reizen Rondom de Weereld Ondernomen op Bevell van Zyne Majesteit den Tans Regeerenden Koning van Groot-Brittanje tot Het Doen van Ontdekkingen ... J. Hawkesworth Uit Het Engelsch Vertaalt,

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21in x 16 1/2in (530mm x 420mm)
Plate size: - 19 1/4in x 15 1/2in (490mm x 394mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Folds as issued
Plate area: - Folds as issued
Verso: - Folds as issued

Background: 
The first printed chart of New Zealand.
New Zealand (or Aotearoa, as the Maori call it) had been first encountered by Europeans in the early 1640s, when Dutch explorer Abel Tasman named the land Nieuw Zeeland after the Dutch province. Importantly, Tasman only sailed up the west coast of the North Island and had little notion as to the nature of the islands or their broader geographical context. A small number of Tasmans place names were preserved by Cook (and remain in place to this day), including Cape Maria van Diemen (the northernmost point of the North Island) and the Three Kings islets, where Cook and his men celebrated the Christmas of 1769-the first Europeans to visit the islands for nearly 130 years.
Captain James Cook (1728-1779) is considered to be the greatest explorer of the eighteenth century and was the finest maritime cartographer of the Age of Enlightenment. Having first worked on coal colliers and then distinguished himself as a surveyor in Eastern Canada, in 1768 he became the British Admiralty\\\'s choice to lead an unprecedented voyage of discovery. The central impetus for the expedition was to observe the Transit of Venus from Tahiti and then to proceed to explore Terra Australis Incognita, the supposedly rich southern continent. Whereas the first part of the voyage was to be conducted under the auspices of international scientific cooperation, the second part was entirely clandestine and was only communicated to Cook via Secret Instructions to be opened once at sea.
Cooks party left Plymouth in August 1768 aboard the converted coal collier HMS Endeavor and proceeded to Tahiti by way of Cape Horn. They arrived in time to observe the Transit of Venus, which occurred June 3, 1769. Cook then proceeded towards New Zealand, to the coordinates recorded by Tasman. As New Zealand was quite conceivably part of Terra Australis, it was Cooks intention to carefully explore and map the region.
On October 6, 1769, the Endeavor sighted the North Island (Te Ika a Maui) at Turanga Nui, which Cook renamed Poverty Bay. He and his crew had arrived on the opposite shore to where Tasman had met the island. Cook proceeded to the South Island (Te Wai Pounamu), carefully mapping both landmasses with a running survey. He used soundings, visual observations, and triangulation regulated by astronomical observations to create his manuscript charts.
Despite being constantly buffeted by wind and rain, and after having some hostile relations with the Maori that resulted in Maori deaths, Cook and his crew managed to circumnavigate both the North and South Islands, proving that they were separate islands divided by the Cook Strait. They also proved the islands were not connected to any southern continent. On March 31, 1770, Cook wrote in his journal that the Endeavours voyage:
…must be allowed to have set a side the most, if not all, the arguments and proofs that have been advanced by different Authors to prove that there must be a Southern Continent; I mean to the northward of 40 degrees South, for what may lay to the Southward of that Latitude I know not (Cook, Journals I, 290).
The Endeavor left New Zealand at Cape Farewell, sailing west towards Australia, where Cooks crew would become the first Europeans to explore that region. In total, they had surveyed over 2,400 miles of New Zealand coastline in six months.
Upon the Endeavours return to England in July 1771, Cook became a national hero. He would go on to lead two further voyages that would succeed in illuminating most of the Pacific Ocean to European eyes. On the second expedition, Cook would put to rest the myth of a southern continent. On the third, he kick started the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest of North America while searching for the Northwest Passage. He was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua Bay in 1779.

The chart and its publication
Cook returned to England with over 300 manuscript charts and coastal views. The original manuscript chart of New Zealand is now held by the British Library (Add MS 7085, f. 16-7). The chart was drawn, at least in part, by Isaac Smith (1752-1831), a draftsman of considerable skill who worked with Cook in Newfoundland, sailed on the Endeavour and Cooks second voyage, and was related to Cooks wife. Of the New Zealand chart, Cook wrote:
The Chart which I have drawn will best point out the figure and extent of these Islands…beginning at Cape Palliser and proceed round Aehei no mouwe (North Island) by the East Cape &ca. The Coast between these two Capes I believe to be laid down pretty accurate both in its figure and the Course and distance from point to point. The oppertunities I had and the methods I made use on to obtain these requesites were such as could hardly admit of an error… some few places however must be excepted and these are very doubtfull …(Cook, Journals I, 275-6)
The overall delineation is impressively accurate, correctly capturing many of the bays and promontories, and making insightful observations of the interior. Many of the names given by Cook survive to this day, including the Alps, (the great mountain chain of the South Island), Mount Egmont (the volcano on the North Island, also known as Mount Taranaki), the Bay of Islands, the Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay, and most intriguingly, Cape Kidnappers (a point on the North Island where Maori warriors attempted to abduct a member of the Endeavors crew).
There are a few errors, conspicuous only because of the otherwise superb accuracy of the chart. Notably, Cooks Bankes Island is in fact a peninsula, part of the South Island. Further south, what looks like a possible peninsula is actually Stewart Island, with the Isle Solander to the west. Also, some portions of coast line remain un-surveyed due to adverse conditions or distraction. For example, the portion of coastline near Bankes Island is but a dotted line because Lieutenant Gore had thought he sighted land to the southeast. Upon sailing toward it, the promontory proved to be clouds. Despite such mistakes, the chart is remarkably thorough.
The present chart was printed as part of the official account of Cooks first voyage, which was edited by the literary critic John Hawkesworth and underwritten by the British Admiralty. An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere… (London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773) recounted the voyages not only of Cook, but of Byron, Wallis, and Carteret who had also ventured to the Pacific for the Royal Navy earlier in the 1760s. It was engraved by John Abraham Bayly (fl. 1755-1794), a London-based engraver who specialized in cartographic work.
In 1816, the British Hydrographic Office began to reprint the map for its vessels. The chart was continuously consulted into the twentieth century. Due to this longevity, its extraordinary origins, and its important place in the founding of New Zealand as a British colony, Cooks chart is considered to be the most important single map in the history of New Zealand. Due to the complexity of the assignment and the great accuracy of the survey, it is also considered to be one of Cooks very finest maps, and one of the truly great achievements of Enlightenment cartography.

• Title : A Chart of the Southern Hemisphere shewing the Tracks of some of the most distinguished Navigators by Captain James Cook of His Majestys Navy
• Ref  :  61111
• Size: 23 1/2in x 22 1/2in (605mm x 575mm)
• Date : 1777
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This fine original 1st edition, copper-plate engraved, antique map, a chart of the Southern Hemisphere, was engraved by William Whitchurch in 1776 - dated - and is dedicated to the discoveries in the South Seas and Antarctic Regions of Captain James Cook during his second Voyage of Discovery between 1772 & 1775. By comparison the tracks of 11 other explorers are included, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The map by Captain James Cook was published in the 1777 edition of A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World. Performed in His Majestys ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775.published by William Strahan, New Street, Shoe Lane, & Thos. Cadell, in the Strand, London 1777.
This map is unique in another way, was used by Nathaniel Dance in his 1776 portrait of Captain James Cook. Please also see below for more information & above for the portrait. 

The 11 other explorers and their tracks around the Southern Hemisphere are;
1. Mendana in 1595
2. Quiros in 1606
3. Le Maire & Schouten in 1616
4. Tasman in 1642
5. Halley in 1700
6. Roggewein in 1722
7. Bouvet in 1738-39
8. Byron in 1765
9. Wallis in 1767
10. Bougainville in 1768
11. Surville in 1769
12. Cooks first and second voyages.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 23 1/2in x 22 1/2in (605mm x 575mm)
Plate size: - 23in x 21 1/2in (585mm x 545mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Repair as noted in plate Plate area
Plate area: - 9in repair to the left of the image from NZ to margin, no loss. Folds as issued
Verso: - Repair as noted in plate Plate area

Background: 
This map by James Cook, was published as the premier map of his second voyage to the Southern Hemisphere, dispelling forever the myth of the Great Southern Land and showing the true cartographic nature of the southern hemisphere dominated by Australia & New Zealand. The map on a South Polar Projection also shows South America, the South Atlantic Ocean, South Africa, Madagascar, Australia - with Tasmania still joined to the mainland - New Zealand and the southern Pacific Ocean with islands.
Engraved within the explorer\'s tracks are the dates of their voyages and ships tracks are particularly noted around the Antarctic Circle with notations of ice fields seen during the voyages.

Nathaniel Dance Portrait of Cook, 1776
A three-quarter-length portrait of Captain Cook, seated to the left, facing the right. He is wearing captain\'s full-dress uniform, 1774-87, consisting of a navy blue jacket, white waistcoat with gold braid and gold buttons and white breeches. He wears a grey wig or his own hair powdered. He holds his own chart of the Southern Ocean on the table and his right hand points to the east coast of Australia on it. His left thumb and finger lightly hold the other edge of the chart over his knee. His hat sits on the table behind him to the left on top of a substantial book, perhaps his journal, itself resting on the chart. In 1772, Cook sailed for the second time to the fringes of the Antarctic and the Pacific, returning in 1775. He sat for this portrait, commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks, \'for a few hours before dinner\' on 25 May 1776 but it is not known whether he did so again before he left London on 24 June for his third voyage, never to return. None the less, David Samwell, surgeon\'s mate in \'Resolution\' on the second voyage and surgeon of \'Discovery\' on the third, thought it \'a most excellent likeness ... and ... the only one I have seen that bears any resemblance to him\'. This view was based on John Sherwin\'s later engraving of the portrait, which probably argues even more favourably for the original despite an element of idealization, not least omission of a large burn scar (from 1764) on the right hand. Banks had sailed with Cook on his first voyage in the \'Endeavour\' and took an influential interest in his subsequent ones. This portrait hung over the fireplace in the library of his London house. After his death, it was presented to the Naval Gallery at Greenwich Hospital by his executor, Sir Edward Knatchbull, following a request by E.H. Locker, the Hospital Secretary. In 1781-83 Charles Grignion, then in Rome, painted a \'Death of Captain Cook\' which was sold in 1821 after the British Museum declined it as a bequest from his brother Thomas, a well-known watchmaker. That picture subsequently disappeared but Thomas\'s will says the likeness of Cook was based on the present portrait. Dance worked with Pompeo Batoni in Rome and on his return to London in 1765 achieved success as a portrait and history painter. In 1768, he joined a group of artists who successfully petitioned George III to establish the Royal Academy in that year.

• Title : Carte d une Partie de la Mer du Sud Contenant les Decouvertes de Vaisseaux de sa Majeste, Le Dauphin, Commodore Byron, La Tamar, Capitne. Mouats 1765, Le Dauphin, Capitne. Wallis, Le Swallow, Capitne. Cartaret, 1767, et l Endeavour, Lieutenant Cook 1769
• Ref  :  35509
• Size: 28in x 16 3/4in (710mm x 425mm)
• Date : 1774
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved, large antique map, a chart of the tracks of 5 British ships & explorers to the South Ocean from 1765 to 1771 was engraved by Robert Benard and published in the 1774 French translation of John Hawkesworths publication An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, Drawn Up from the Journals Which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks

The 5 Voyages, with Captains, ships & tracks are;
1. 1764-66 - HMS Dolphin under Command of Commodore John Byron, completed the first circumnavigation of the globe under two years.
2. 1764-1766 - HMS Tamar under Command of Captain Patrick Mouat, accompanied Commodore John Byron & HMS Dolphin on 1764-66 circumnavigation of the world.
3. 1766-68 - HMS Dolphin under Command of Captain Samuel Wallis, completed another circumnavigation & was the first European to visit Tahiti & the Society Islands.
4. 1766-68 - HMS Swallow under Command of Captain Philip Carteret, who accompanied HMS Dolphin under the command of Samuel Wallis to circumnavigate the world.
5. 1769-71 - HMS Endeavour, under Command of Lieutenant James Cook (later Captain) completed a the mapping of Tahiti & the Society Islands, New Zealand & the East Coast of Australia.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 28in x 16 3/4in (710mm x 425mm)
Plate size: - 26 3/4in x 14 3/4in (680mm x 375mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - Folds as issued
Verso: - None

Background: 
Commodore John Byron 1723 – 1786 was a British Royal Navy officer and politician.He circumnavigated the world as a commodore with his own squadron in 1764-1766. He fought in battles in The Seven Years War and the American Revolution. He rose to Vice Admiral before his death in 1786.

Captain Patrick Mouat. Commanded HMS Tamer on a voyage of discovery with Commodore John Byron between 1764-66. HMS Tamar was a sloop, mounting sixteen guns: ninety men, three lieutenants, and two and twenty petty officers.

Captain Samuel Wallis 1728 – 1795 was a British naval officer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean. Was given the command of HMS Dolphin in 1751 as part of an expedition led by Philip Carteret in the Swallow with an assignment to circumnavigate the globe. The two ships were parted by a storm shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Wallis continuing to Tahiti, which he named King George the Third\'s Island in honour of the King in June 1767.

Captain Philip Carteret 1733 – 1796 was a British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navys circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and 1766–69.

Captain James Cook is considered one of the most talented Surveyors & Map Makers of any age, for Cook, the production of a new chart was his principal reason for going to sea. His charts were aimed at fellow seamen so he incorporated as much information as possible while employing an economy of style and little elaboration. The quality of his charts can be confirmed by the fact that some survey details from Newfoundland to New Zealand & Australias East Coast could still be safely used over one hundred years later. His last piece of the New Zealand hydrographic chart was only removed in the 1990s.

John Hawkesworth An English writer and journalist, Hawkesworth was commissioned by the British Admiralty to edit for publication the narratives of its officers’ circumnavigations. He was given full access to the journals of the commanders and the freedom to adapt and re-tell them in the first person. Cook was already on his way back from his second Pacific voyage, temporarily docked at Cape Town (South Africa), when he first saw the published volumes: he was mortified and furious to find that Hawkesworth claimed in the introduction that Cook had seen and blessed (with slight corrections) the resulting manuscript. (In his defense, Hawkesworth also had been a victim of misunderstanding.) Cook had trouble recognizing himself. Moreover, the work was full of errors and commentary introduced by Hawkesworth and, in Cook’s view, too full of Banks, who had promoted himself and the publication. Still, the work was popular; the first edition sold out in several months.

Robert Bénard 1734 – 1777 was an 18th-century French engraver.
Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Ménard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d Alembert from 1751.
Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog.

• Title : A Man of Van Diemens Land; A Woman of Van Diemens Land
• Ref  :  61238; 61239
• Size: 19 1/2in x 14 3/4in (545mm x 375mm) ea
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
These rare large first-edition antique prints, plates #6 and 7, portraits of a man, woman and child of Van Diemen's Land, visited by Captain James Cook in January 1777, were drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and both expertly engraved by James Caldwell for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

In late January 1777, during his third and final voyage, Captain James Cook anchored HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island, off the south-east coast of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Cook, who had been sailing from the Cape of Good Hope toward New Zealand and the Pacific, stopped to take on fresh water, wood and fodder for the livestock aboard. His men cut timber and gathered grass while the crews rested for several days. The visit included a peaceful but cautious encounter with the local Aboriginal people, the Nuenonne (Bruny Island) people, a group of whom approached the shore. Cook noted their appearance, their lack of clothing despite the cool weather, and their evident wariness, and he presented them with gifts, though they showed little interest in the offerings. Members of his crew, including the surgeon William Anderson and the artist John Webber, recorded observations of the people and landscape, giving Europeans some of their earliest detailed impressions of the region. Cook left on 30 January and continued toward New Zealand.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 19 1/2in x 14 3/4in (545mm x 375mm) ea
Plate size: - 11in x 8 1/4in (280mm x 210mm) es
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light spotting
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light spotting

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Human Sacrifice in a Morai, in Otaheite
• Ref  :  61219
• Size: 20 3/4in x 15in (525mm x 380mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #25, the first plate engraved of the Tahitian Islands and people, of the controversial human sacrifice witnessed by Cook and his men in Matavia Morai, Tahiti was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Woollett for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery reached Tahiti on 12 August 1777, anchoring in Vaitepiha (Oaitipeha) Bay on the island's eastern peninsula after leaving Tonga. This was Cook's fourth visit to the island, and one of his aims was to return Omai (Mai), the Raiatean man who had travelled to England, to the Society Islands. Cook found that Tahitians were eager for red feathers, which the crews had collected in Tonga, and these became the most valued trade goods, far more than iron. Local people also told him about Spanish ships that had visited in 1774, and he saw the wooden cross they left, which had a Latin inscription claiming the island for Spain. Cook had his own inscription added to the cross. Later in the month, on 24 August, the ships moved to Matavai Bay on the northern coast, where Cook met the paramount chief Tū, later known as Pomare I. Cook stayed at Tahiti until late September, and in that time he witnessed a human sacrifice at a marae, a ceremony that disturbed many of the crew and became one of the most discussed episodes of the voyage.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
aper size: - 20 3/4in x 15in (525mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 19in x 11 1/4in (480mm x 285mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light age toning
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : An Island View, in Atooi
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (540mm x 390mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82065

Description:
This rare first-edition copper-plate engraving stands as one of the most critical visual records of pre-contact Hawaiian civilization. Drawn from life by official expedition artist John Webber and engraved by Samuel Middiman, the work captures the village of Waimea on Kauai (Atooi) during Captain James Cook's historic initial encounter with the Hawaiian Islands in January 1778. Published for the imperial folio atlas accompanying Cook’s A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, this masterpiece balances artistic landscape composition with precise ethnographic documentation just a year before Cook's death.
This original print was published in 1784, for the official British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S." in 1784
As a vital piece of cartographic and Pacific exploration history, this highly collectable print is an institutional-grade addition suited for fine art galleries, historical archives, and dedicated private collections.

In January 1778, Cook's ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery sighted Oahu and then Kauaʻi, becoming the first recorded European visitors to the Hawaiian Islands. On January 20, they anchored off the village of Waimea on Kauaʻi's southwestern coast, which Cook recorded as "Atooi." Local Hawaiians paddled out in canoes to meet the ships, and Cook was struck by how closely their language resembled Tahitian, which he had encountered on earlier voyages. Trading began almost immediately, with islanders exchanging pigs, sweet potatoes, taro, and fish for iron nails and other metal goods they prized.
Cook went ashore on January 21, where crowds prostrated themselves before him, an act likely tied to Hawaiian ritual customs and possibly his perceived status. He observed the village's thatched houses, cultivated fields, and a heiau, a temple platform, which Cook and his officers explored and sketched. The visit was brief, but a violent incident occurred when a crew member fired on a crowd during a dispute, killing a Hawaiian man. Cook was distressed by the event and soon departed, sailing north before returning to the islands in 1779, where he was killed at Kealakekua Bay on Hawaiʻi Island.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (540mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 20in x 10 1/4in (510mm x 260mm)
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling in L & R margins
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) to the South Pacific, NW America and the eastern Russian Peninsula of Kamchatka, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage). Below is each location visited by Cook and later Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

• Title : A Man of Prince William Sound; A Woman of Prince William Sound
• Ref  :  61268/61269
• Size: 21 3/4in x 16in (555mm x 405mm) ea
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
These scarce first-edition large antique prints, plates #46 and #47, the second and third plates engraved of Prince William Sound, Alaska and its inhabitants, of a Man and Woman of Snug Corner Cove in May 1778, were drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by John Basire for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's ships entered Prince William Sound, on the south coast of Alaska, in mid-May 1778, after leaving Nootka Sound and following the coast north in search of a passage back east to the Atlantic. Cook first called it Sandwich Sound, after the First Lord of the Admiralty, but the name was later changed to Prince William Sound in the published account. The ships anchored for several days at a sheltered spot, Snug Corner Cove, where the crews made repairs and Cook explored the sound's inlets, hoping it might open into a northern passage. It did not, and the ships left in late May. The people they met were the Chugach, a Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) people, who came out in skin kayaks to trade. Cook described them as wearing garments of sea otter and other furs, and many had lip ornaments (labrets) of bone or stone. They traded otter pelts and other furs for beads and iron. Cook was struck to find that they already owned some iron and glass beads, which suggested they had trade links, possibly indirect, with Russian fur traders in Siberia and the Aleutians. This reinforced the connection between sea otter furs and world trade that became so important after his voyage.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific, Polar and NW American exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 3/4in x 16in (555mm x 405mm) ea
Plate size: - 12in x 9 1/2in (305mm x 240mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Carte De L Hemisphere Austral Montrant les Routes des Navigateurs les plus Celebree par le Capitaine Jacques Cook
• Ref  :  42004
• Size: 22in x 21 1/2in (560mm x 545mm)
• Date : 1778
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved, antique map, a chart of the Southern Hemisphere, was engraved by Robert Benard and is dedicated to the discoveries in the South Seas and Antarctic Regions of Captain James Cook during his second Voyage of Discovery between 1772 & 1775. By comparison the tracks of 11 other explorers are included, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The map by Captain James Cook was published in the 1778 French edition of A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World. Performed in His Majestys ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775..... Paris : Hotel de Thou ......1778
This map is unique in another way, as the English edition of this map was used as a prop, by Nathaniel Dance, in his 1776 portrait of Captain James Cook. Please also see above for the portrait. 

The 11 other explorers and their tracks around the Southern Hemisphere are;
1. Mendana in 1595
2. Quiros in 1606
3. Le Maire & Schouten in 1616
4. Tasman in 1642
5. Halley in 1700
6. Roggewein in 1722
7. Bouvet in 1738-39
8. Byron in 1765
9. Wallis in 1767
10. Bougainville in 1768
11. Surville in 1769
12. Cooks first and second voyages.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 22in x 21 1/2in (560mm x 545mm)
Plate size: - 22in x 21 1/2in (560mm x 545mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Repair without loss to left of image
Plate area: - Folds as issued, light creasing along folds
Verso: - Folds as issued, light creasing along folds

Background: 
This map by James Cook, was published as the premier map of his second voyage to the Southern Hemisphere, dispelling forever the myth of the Great Southern Land and showing the true cartographic nature of the southern hemisphere dominated by Australia & New Zealand. The map on a South Polar Projection also shows South America, the South Atlantic Ocean, South Africa, Madagascar, Australia - with Tasmania still joined to the mainland - New Zealand and the southern Pacific Ocean with islands.
Engraved within the explorer\\\'s tracks are the dates of their voyages and ships tracks are particularly noted around the Antarctic Circle with notations of ice fields seen during the voyages.

John Hawkesworth An English writer and journalist, Hawkesworth was commissioned by the British Admiralty to edit for publication the narratives of its officers’ circumnavigations. He was given full access to the journals of the commanders and the freedom to adapt and re-tell them in the first person. Cook was already on his way back from his second Pacific voyage, temporarily docked at Cape Town (South Africa), when he first saw the published volumes: he was mortified and furious to find that Hawkesworth claimed in the introduction that Cook had seen and blessed (with slight corrections) the resulting manuscript. (In his defense, Hawkesworth also had been a victim of misunderstanding.) Cook had trouble recognizing himself. Moreover, the work was full of errors and commentary introduced by Hawkesworth and, in Cook’s view, too full of Banks, who had promoted himself and the publication. Still, the work was popular; the first edition sold out in several months.

Robert Bénard 1734 – 1777 was an 18th-century French engraver.
Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Ménard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d Alembert from 1751.
Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog.

• Title : Natche, a Ceremony in Honour of the Kings Son in Tongataboo
• Size: 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82067

Description:
This large beautifully engraved original copper-plate 1st edition antique print of possibly the coming of age or Inasi ceremony for the son of the King of Tonga in the village of Mua on the main Tongan Island of Tongatapu, at the time of Captain Cooks visit in 1777 as drawn by John Webber (Cooks official artist on the voyage) was published for the 1784 1st edition and official British Admiralty sanctioned account of Captain Cook’s third and final voyage along with that of Cooks successor Capt. James King......
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majesty\'s Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S 

While on Tongatapu from 10 June to 10 July 1777, Cook and his men recorded Tongan ceremonies and culture.
The most unusual and extraordinary ceremony observed during Cook\'s stay at Tongatapu was the Inasi ceremony which took place at Mua from 8 to 9 July. The ceremony was centred upon the son of Fatafehi Paulaho, the sacred King of Tonga (Tui Tonga), and was probably performed in honour of his coming of age. Several thousand were involved, most of whom entered the performing area with sticks about four feet long. They approached a shelter or small hut in which Paulaho, his son and other people of distinction were seated.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - 
Colors used: - 
General color appearance: - 
Paper size: - 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
Plate size: - 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light soiling

Background: 
Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean. It has a population of 107,122 people, of whom 70% reside on the main island of Tongatapu.
The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht, captained by Willem Schouten, made a short visit to trade. Later came other Dutch explorers, including Jacob Le Maire (who called on the northern island of Niuatoputapu); and in 1643 Abel Tasman (who visited Tongatapu and Haapai).
Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook (Royal Navy) in 1773, 1774, and 1777; Alessandro Malaspina (Spanish Navy) in 1793; the first London missionaries in 1797; and the Wesleyan Methodist Reverend Walter Lawry in 1822.
Tonga became known in the West as the Friendly Islands because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773. He arrived at the time of the inasi festival, the yearly donation of the First Fruits to the Tui Tonga (the islands paramount chief) and so received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, the chiefs wanted to kill Cook during the gathering but could not agree on a plan.

Mu a is a small town in the Hahake (eastern) district on the island of Tongatapu, and it was for centuries the ancient capital of Tonga. It is divided in the villages Lapaha and Tatakamotonga, is close to Talasiu and famous for the ancient langi (royal burial tombs).
Mua was at one time the center of Lapita culture in Tonga (about 2,000 years ago) and later (twelfth to sixteenth century CE) the capital of the Tuʻi Tonga Empire. After the disintegration of the empire it remained the capital of the Tui Tonga (Tonga kings), up to the nineteenth century, but was rather a spiritual centre and no longer a source of political power.
The Tui Tonga and his retinue stayed in Lapaha, his residence being Olotele and Ahofakasiu, while Takuilau was for his wives. Subchiefs and servants on the other hand lived in Tatakamotonga.
When, around 1470, the Tui Tonga line started to lose power to the Tui Ha atakalaua, and another century later to the Tu i Kanokupolu, chiefs belonging to these lines were not welcome in Mu a, and had to stay on the low-lying coastal areas, separated from the real chiefs (i.e. those belonging to the Tu i Tonga) by the Hala Fonuamoa (dry land road). The former became known as the kauhalalalo (low road people) and the latter as the kauhala uta (inland road people), which nowadays are still two important moieties in Tonga.
Whatever political power the Tu i Tonga yielded to their rivals, they gained in spiritual power, and as a kind of high priest they were perhaps even more awesome than as kings. When a Tu i Tonga died he was buried in one of the huge tomb hills, known as langi, of which there are still at least two dozen in Lapaha. The Tu i Haʻatakalaua were also buried in such tombs, but they are called fale instead.
The langi are big, artificial hills surrounded by huge slabs of coral rock, usually in three or more tiered layers. These slabs were quarried from several places along the coast of Tongatapu or neighbouring minor islands. The waves of the sea made them over the centuries, by compacting coral sand into layers of 10 to 20 centimetres (3.9 to 7.9 inches) thick. They were only to be dug out and then transported by boat to the building site. Nevertheless, the accuracy by which the slabs were cut to shape so that they fit along each other with barely any space to spare is remarkable.
One of the best-preserved langi is the Paepae-o-Tele a, which is even more remarkable as the slabs along the corner really have an L shape.
The story that the slabs were moved by magic means from Uvea to Tonga is just a myth. Uvea is volcanic and has not got the proper geology. This fact has always been known, as shown, for example by a stanza of the poem named Laveofo from around the 18th century by Tufui.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

• Title : Sea Horses
• Ref  :  61270
• Size: 21 3/4in x 15 1/2in (550mm x 395mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #52, the only plate engraved of The Arctic region, north of the Bering Straits, in August 1778, of Walruses, commonly called at the time Sea Horses, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by Edmund Scott for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's "Sea Horses" were walruses, which his crews met on the pack ice in the Arctic, north of the Bering Strait, in August 1778. The ships were short of fresh food, and on 19 August, a little south of Icy Cape at about 70° to 71°N, a huge number of walruses were seen lying on the ice. Cook sent two boats to hunt them, and by seven that evening seven had been brought aboard the Resolution. Further hunts took place on 27 and 28 August, and the ships shot more walrus in July 1779, during their second stay in the ice. The crews were divided about the taste of the meat, and Cook found the animals less dangerous than authors had claimed, more fearsome in appearance than in reality. He also complained that he had never seen a good drawing of one, and could not see why they were called sea horses, since they looked like a much larger seal. Webber took care to draw the walrus from several angles, and made several versions of the scene, which became plate 52 in the atlas. A large painting of it was shown at the Royal Academy in 1784.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 3/4in x 15 3/4in (550mm x 395mm)
Plate size: - 15 3/46in x 10in (400mm x 255mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : The Natche, a Ceremony in Honour of the Kings Son, in Tongataboo
• Ref  :  61247
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #22, the ninth plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of the "Natche" Ceremony (mistranslation of the Tongan word "inasi" meaning share or portion) of the first fruit/vegetable ceremony, in which a portion of the harvest is dedicated in honour of the chief and his family, on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by James Hall for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
aper size: - 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 19 1/4in x 12 1/2in (540mm x 315mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Fiatooka or Morai, in Tongataboo
• Ref  :  61246
• Size: 21in x 15in (540mm x 380mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #21, the eight plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of the Fa'itoka, a sacred burial site (a raised, walled mound of a chief or person of rank) on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga and was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Ellis for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
aper size: - 21in x 15in (540mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 16in x 10in (405mm x 2555mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking Kava
• Ref  :  61245
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #20, the seventh plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of the King or Tu'i of Tonga in the traditional Kava drinking ceremony, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Sharp for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
aper size: - 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 16 1/4in x 10 1/2in (410mm x 265mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light age toning

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : The Inside of a Hippah, in New Zealand
• Ref  :  61254
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (545mm x 395mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This rare first-edition large antique print, plate #10, and the only one engraved from this visit, of a village or Marea (possibly Meretoto or Ship Cove) located in Queen Charlotte Sound at the top of the South Island of New Zealand, visited previously by Captain James Cook and again in February 1777, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by BT Pouncy for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

On 12 February 1777, a little under two weeks after leaving Tasmania, Captain James Cook brought HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery into Ship Cove (Meretoto) in Queen Charlotte Sound (Totaranui), at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island. It was his fifth visit to the sound, a familiar stopover where the ships could be refitted, take on wood and water, and graze the livestock aboard. The crews repaired the vessels, brewed spruce beer, and set up an observatory ashore to check their instruments before the long run into the Pacific. Meretoto was a seasonal Māori kāinga, and Cook had earlier recorded a fortified pā on nearby Motuara Island, where he claimed the sound in 1770. Local Māori, generally identified as Rangitāne and Ngāti Kuia, were initially cautious but soon resumed trade with the ships, exchanging fish and other provisions for European goods. Cook's journals usually refer to them simply as "the natives" rather than naming individual villages, though he did name Kahura, a chief associated with Grass Cove. During the stay Cook learned more about the killing of ten men from the Adventure's crew there in 1773, and although he was urged to seek revenge, he chose not to retaliate. The ships sailed on 25 February 1777, heading north toward Tahiti and the islands beyond.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (545mm x 395mm) 
Plate size: - 16in x 10in (405mm x 255mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Sea Horses
• Size: 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82064

Description:
This large beautifully engraved original copper-plate 1st edition antique print of the crew of HMS Resolution hunting Walrus in Arctic Alaska in 1778 by John Webber (Cooks official artist on the voyage) & John Heath was later published for the 1784 1st edition and official British Admiralty sanctioned account of Captain Cook’s third and final voyage along with that of Cooks successor Capt. James King......
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majesty\'s Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S

From 11 August to 3 September, 1778 Cook\'s ships had a harrowing time sailing through the Arctics ice covered seas and were in need of supplies.
On the 19th August Cook sent two boats to hunt the large colony of walruses that had been seen from the ship. By seven that evening seven were brought on board the Resolution.
............The sea horse, also known as the morse, is now called the walrus. Ledyard described them as, between a quadrupede and a fish, their heads are somewhat like those of a dog, without ears, except two large white tusks that project downward from the upper jaw… they have a thick skin like that of a horse. Gilbert considered the name sea horse. Why they are so called I cant imagine, for they bear not the smallest resemblance to that animal. Cook Journals III, i, 419.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
Plate size: - 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Age toning
Plate area: - Age toning
Verso: - Age toning

Background: 
Prince William Sound is located on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula, its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound contain numerous small islands, including Cordova and Whittier plus the Alaska native villages of Chenega and Tatitlek.
James Cook entered Prince William Sound in 1778 and named it Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. The name was changed to honour King George III third son, Prince William Henry, then aged 13 and serving as a midshipman in the Royal Navy.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

• Title : The Body of Tee, a Chief , as preserved after Death, in Otahiti
• Ref  :  61249
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15 1/4in (545mm x 385mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #26, the second plate engraved of the Tahitian Islands and people, of the preserved body of Tee a chief Cook had met on a previous visit to Tahiti, housed in a Tupapau in Pare, Matavia Bay, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Byrne for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery reached Tahiti on 12 August 1777, anchoring in Vaitepiha (Oaitipeha) Bay on the island's eastern peninsula after leaving Tonga. This was Cook's fourth visit to the island, and one of his aims was to return Omai (Mai), the Raiatean man who had travelled to England, to the Society Islands. Cook found that Tahitians were eager for red feathers, which the crews had collected in Tonga, and these became the most valued trade goods, far more than iron. Local people also told him about Spanish ships that had visited in 1774, and he saw the wooden cross they left, which had a Latin inscription claiming the island for Spain. Cook had his own inscription added to the cross. Later in the month, on 24 August, the ships moved to Matavai Bay on the northern coast, where Cook met the paramount chief Tū, later known as Pomare I. Cook stayed at Tahiti until late September, and in that time he witnessed a human sacrifice at a marae, a ceremony that disturbed many of the crew and became one of the most discussed episodes of the voyage.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15 1/4in (545mm x 385mm)
Plate size: - 16in x 10in (405mm x 255mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Small light spots in margins
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Night Dance by Women in Hapaee
• Ref  :  61243
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 390mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #17, the fifth plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of the women's traditional night dance on the Island of Lifuka in the Hapaee group, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Sharp for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 16 1/4in x 10 3/4in (410mm x 275mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Night Dance by Men in Hapaee
• Ref  :  61242
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 390mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #16, the fourth plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of the mens traditional night dance on the Island of Lifuka in the Hapaee group, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Sharp for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 16 1/4in x 10 3/4in (410mm x 275mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : The Reception of Captain Cook in Hapaee
• Ref  :  61241
• Size: 21in x 15in (540mm x 390mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #14, the second plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of Cooks reception on the Island of Lifuka in the Hapaee group, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Heath for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21in x 15in (540mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 12in x 9 1/2in (305mm x 240mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Dance in Otaheiti
• Ref  :  61251
• Size: 21 1/4in x 15in (540mm x 380mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #28, the fourth plate engraved of the Tahitian Islands and people, of a ceremonial dance performed at Matavai Bay, Tahiti in early September 1777, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by John Keyse Sherwin for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery reached Tahiti on 12 August 1777, anchoring in Vaitepiha (Oaitipeha) Bay on the island's eastern peninsula after leaving Tonga. This was Cook's fourth visit to the island, and one of his aims was to return Omai (Mai), the Raiatean man who had travelled to England, to the Society Islands. Cook found that Tahitians were eager for red feathers, which the crews had collected in Tonga, and these became the most valued trade goods, far more than iron. Local people also told him about Spanish ships that had visited in 1774, and he saw the wooden cross they left, which had a Latin inscription claiming the island for Spain. Cook had his own inscription added to the cross. Later in the month, on 24 August, the ships moved to Matavai Bay on the northern coast, where Cook met the paramount chief Tū, later known as Pomare I. Cook stayed at Tahiti until late September, and in that time he witnessed a human sacrifice at a marae, a ceremony that disturbed many of the crew and became one of the most discussed episodes of the voyage.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/4in x 15in (540mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 16in x 10 1/4in (405mm x 260mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Man of Mangea
• Ref  :  61240
• Size: 21in x 15in (540mm x 390mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This rare first-edition large antique print, plate #11, and the only one engraved from this visit, of a man from the Cook Island of Mangaia, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by William Sharp for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

On 29 March 1777, while sailing from the Society Islands toward Tonga and the northern Pacific, Captain James Cook sighted Mangaia, the southernmost of the Cook Islands, and brought HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery in close along its coast. Mangaia is ringed by a raised coral platform (makatea) and a fringing reef, and Cook found no anchorage or easy landing place. Islanders came out to the ships, and Omai, the Tahitian passenger on board, acted as an interpreter and was able to speak with them. Cook noted their tattoos, their barkcloth garments and their weapons, and he sent boats to search for a landing but was blocked by the reef and surf. Because no safe landing was found, the ships never anchored, and Cook's contact with Mangaia was limited to exchanges at sea and along the shore. He continued northwest and visited Atiu a few days later, where he did succeed in making contact ashore.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21in x 15in (540mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 12in x 9 1/2in (305mm x 240mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands.
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (540mm x 390mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82070

Description:
This rare original, first-edition antique print, plate #18, depicts Fatafehi Paulaho, the Tuʻi Tonga (King of Tonga), famously met by Captain James Cook during his third and final Pacific voyage in 1777. Drawn from life by Cook’s official voyage artist, John Webber, and expertly engraved by James Hall, this historic portrait captures the Tongan monarch with incredible depth and detail.
The original print was published in London in 1784 for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the expedition: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S."
Perfect for collectors of maritime history, Pacific ethnography, and fine 18th-century art.

Excerpt from Capt James Cooks diary ......"On the 28th May 1777, as Cook was about to leave, Ha apai Paulaho came on board and brought me one of their Caps made or at least covered with red feathers. ..These Caps or rather bonnets are made of the tail feathers of the Tropic bird with red feathers of the Paroquets worked upon them or in along with them, they are made so as to tie upon the forehead without any Crown, and have the form of a Semicircle whose raids is 18 or 21 Inches. Cook Journals III, i.117.
Cook had described Paulaho as....the corperate plump fellow we had met with.....
......About Noon a large sailing Canoe came under our Stern in which the Indians on board told us was Fattafee Polaho [Fatafehi Paulaho] King of all the Isles. He brought with him as a present to me two good fat hogs, though not so fat as himself, for he was the most corperate plump fellow we had met with. I found him to be a Sedate sensible man… I asked him down into the Cabbin, some of his attendants objected to this, saying if he went there people would walk over his head and this was never done. I desired Omai to till them I would remove that objection by giving orders that no one should walk on that part of the deck but the chief \'waved the ceremony and walked down with me without any more to do.....

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15 1/2in (540mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 11 1/2in x 8 3/4in (295mm x 225mm)
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light spotting, small crease in bottom margin
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light spotting

Background: 
Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean. It has a population of 107,122 people, of whom 70% reside on the main island of Tongatapu.
The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht, captained by Willem Schouten, made a short visit to trade. Later came other Dutch explorers, including Jacob Le Maire (who called on the northern island of Niuatoputapu); and in 1643 Abel Tasman (who visited Tongatapu and Haapai).
Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook (Royal Navy) in 1773, 1774, and 1777; Alessandro Malaspina (Spanish Navy) in 1793; the first London missionaries in 1797; and the Wesleyan Methodist Reverend Walter Lawry in 1822.
Tonga became known in the West as the Friendly Islands because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773. He arrived at the time of the inasi festival, the yearly donation of the First Fruits to the Tui Tonga (the islands paramount chief) and so received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, the chiefs wanted to kill Cook during the gathering but could not agree on a plan.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. 

• Title : The Landing at Mallicolo one of the New Hebrides...Published Feb 1st 1777 by Wm. Strahan
• Ref  :  91223
• Size: 19in x 12 ½in (485mm x 320mm)
• Date : 1777
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of Captain James Cook & his men landing on the Island of Malakula (Mallicolo) in the Vanuatu group of Islands in the South Pacific, visited by Cook during his 2nd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1774, was engraved by James Basire - after William Hodges - and was published in Captain James Cooks 1777 edition of A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World. Performed in His Majestys ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. printed by William Strahan, New Street, Shoe Lane, & Thos. Cadell, in the Strand, London 1777.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 19in x 12 ½in (485mm x 320mm)
Plate size: - 19in x 12in (480mm x 305mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - Two very small worm holes
Verso: - None

Background: 
Malakula Island also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, in the Pacific Ocean region of Melanesia.
First discovered by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós in 1606 and visited by Captain James Cook in 1774.

Vanuatu officially the Republic of Vanuatu is a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is 1,750 kilometres east of northern Australia, 540 kilometres northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji.
Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island in 1606. Since the Portuguese and Spanish monarchies had been unified under the king of Spain in 1580 (following the vacancy of the Portuguese throne, which lasted for sixty years, until 1640, when the Portuguese monarchy was restored), Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo.
The Vanuatu group of islands first had contact with Europeans in 1606, when the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queiros, sailing for the Spanish Crown, arrived on the largest island and called the group of islands La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo or The Southern Land of the Holy Spirit, believing he had arrived in Terra Australis or Australia. The Spanish established a short-lived settlement at Big Bay on the north side of the island. The name Espiritu Santo remains to this day.
Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands on 22 May, naming them the Great Cyclades. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New Hebrides, a name that would last until independence in 1980.

William Hodges RA 1744 – 1797 was an English painter. He was a member of James Cooks second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic.
Between 1772 and 1775 Hodges accompanied James Cook to the Pacific as the expeditions artist. Many of his sketches and wash paintings were adapted as engravings in the original published edition of Cooks journals from the voyage.
Most of the large-scale landscape oil paintings from his Pacific travels for which Hodges is best known were finished after his return to London; he received a salary from the Admiralty for the purposes of completing them. These paintings depicted a stronger light and shadow than had been usual in European landscape tradition. Contemporary art critics complained that his use of light and colour contrasts gave his paintings a rough and unfinished appearance.
Hodges also produced many valuable portrait sketches of Pacific islanders and scenes from the voyage involving members of the expedition.

James Basire 1730–1802, also known as James Basire Sr., was an English engraver. He is the most significant of a family of engravers, and noted for his apprenticing of the young William Blake.

• Title : A Fiatooka or Morai in Tongataboo
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15in (540mm x 385mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82068

Description:
This large, beautifully detailed first-edition antique print, plate #21, depicts the fiatooka (or morai), the sacred burial grounds and temple site on the main Tongan island of Tongatapu, as observed during Captain James Cook’s historic visit in 1777. Drawn from life by Cook’s official voyage artist, John Webber, and expertly engraved by William Ellis, this striking scene provides an invaluable historical and architectural record of 18th-century Tongan spiritual landmarks.
The original 1784 copper-plate engraving was published in London for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the expedition: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S."
Highly sought after by collectors of maritime exploration, Pacific ethnography, and fine 18th-century art, this print makes a premier addition to any professional gallery or private historical collection.

While on Tongatapu from 10 June to 10 July 1777, Cook and his men recorded Tongan ceremonies and culture. In this view Webber depicts a faitoka (burying ground).
Cooks journal "......The Places set apart for burying the dead are raised with Gravel about a foot or two above the level of the Ground, on which stand two or three Houses which are constantly shut up but contain nothing in them; these Ceremonies called in their Language Dano are kept very neat & clean & the Indians are generally displeased at our approaching them....."

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15in (540mm x 385mm)
Plate size: - 15in x 10in (380mm x 255mm)
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light soiling

Background: 
Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean. It has a population of 107,122 people, of whom 70% reside on the main island of Tongatapu.
The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht, captained by Willem Schouten, made a short visit to trade. Later came other Dutch explorers, including Jacob Le Maire (who called on the northern island of Niuatoputapu); and in 1643 Abel Tasman (who visited Tongatapu and Haapai).
Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook (Royal Navy) in 1773, 1774, and 1777; Alessandro Malaspina (Spanish Navy) in 1793; the first London missionaries in 1797; and the Wesleyan Methodist Reverend Walter Lawry in 1822.
Tonga became known in the West as the Friendly Islands because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773. He arrived at the time of the inasi festival, the yearly donation of the First Fruits to the Tui Tonga (the islands paramount chief) and so received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, the chiefs wanted to kill Cook during the gathering but could not agree on a plan.

Mu a is a small town in the Hahake (eastern) district on the island of Tongatapu, and it was for centuries the ancient capital of Tonga. It is divided in the villages Lapaha and Tatakamotonga, is close to Talasiu and famous for the ancient langi (royal burial tombs).
Mua was at one time the center of Lapita culture in Tonga (about 2,000 years ago) and later (twelfth to sixteenth century CE) the capital of the Tuʻi Tonga Empire. After the disintegration of the empire it remained the capital of the Tui Tonga (Tonga kings), up to the nineteenth century, but was rather a spiritual centre and no longer a source of political power.
The Tui Tonga and his retinue stayed in Lapaha, his residence being Olotele and Ahofakasiu, while Takuilau was for his wives. Subchiefs and servants on the other hand lived in Tatakamotonga.
When, around 1470, the Tui Tonga line started to lose power to the Tui Ha atakalaua, and another century later to the Tu i Kanokupolu, chiefs belonging to these lines were not welcome in Mu a, and had to stay on the low-lying coastal areas, separated from the real chiefs (i.e. those belonging to the Tu i Tonga) by the Hala Fonuamoa (dry land road). The former became known as the kauhalalalo (low road people) and the latter as the kauhala uta (inland road people), which nowadays are still two important moieties in Tonga.
Whatever political power the Tu i Tonga yielded to their rivals, they gained in spiritual power, and as a kind of high priest they were perhaps even more awesome than as kings. When a Tu i Tonga died he was buried in one of the huge tomb hills, known as langi, of which there are still at least two dozen in Lapaha. The Tu i Haʻatakalaua were also buried in such tombs, but they are called fale instead.
The langi are big, artificial hills surrounded by huge slabs of coral rock, usually in three or more tiered layers. These slabs were quarried from several places along the coast of Tongatapu or neighbouring minor islands. The waves of the sea made them over the centuries, by compacting coral sand into layers of 10 to 20 centimetres (3.9 to 7.9 inches) thick. They were only to be dug out and then transported by boat to the building site. Nevertheless, the accuracy by which the slabs were cut to shape so that they fit along each other with barely any space to spare is remarkable.
One of the best-preserved langi is the Paepae-o-Tele a, which is even more remarkable as the slabs along the corner really have an L shape.
The story that the slabs were moved by magic means from Uvea to Tonga is just a myth. Uvea is volcanic and has not got the proper geology. This fact has always been known, as shown, for example by a stanza of the poem named Laveofo from around the 18th century by Tufui.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

• Title : Night Dance by Men in Hapaee
• Size: 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82066

Description:
This large, beautifully detailed first-edition antique print, plate #16, captures Captain James Cook with his men in the foreground, watching a night dance performance by the local people on the Island of Lifuka, located within the Haʻapai island group of Tonga. Drawn from life during Cook’s historic 1777 visit by his official voyage artist, John Webber, and expertly engraved by William Sharp, this striking nocturnal scene offers a rare, immersive window into 18th-century Tongan culture.
This original 1784 copper-plate engraving was published in London for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the expedition: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S."
An exceptionally dramatic and highly collectable piece, it stands as a premier example of 18th-century Pacific maritime art and ethnography, making it a stellar addition for serious collectors.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
Plate size: - 16 1/4in x 10 3/4in (410mm x 275mm)
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling, small repair to left margin  edge
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light soiling

Background: 
Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. The total surface area is about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean. It has a population of 107,122 people, of whom 70% reside on the main island of Tongatapu.
The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht, captained by Willem Schouten, made a short visit to trade. Later came other Dutch explorers, including Jacob Le Maire (who called on the northern island of Niuatoputapu); and in 1643 Abel Tasman (who visited Tongatapu and Haapai).
Later noteworthy European visitors included James Cook (Royal Navy) in 1773, 1774, and 1777; Alessandro Malaspina (Spanish Navy) in 1793; the first London missionaries in 1797; and the Wesleyan Methodist Reverend Walter Lawry in 1822.
Tonga became known in the West as the Friendly Islands because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773. He arrived at the time of the inasi festival, the yearly donation of the First Fruits to the Tui Tonga (the islands paramount chief) and so received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, the chiefs wanted to kill Cook during the gathering but could not agree on a plan.

Lifuka is an island in the Kingdom of Tonga. It is located within the Ha apai Group in the centre of the country, to northeast of the national capital of Nuku alofa.
Lifuka is the place where Captain James Cook dubbed Tonga The Friendly Islands. Tofua is where the mutiny on the Bounty occurred in 1789; this active volcanic island lies approximately forty nautical miles west of Lifuka. The Cpt. Bligh voyage stands as the longest successful passage ever recorded in an open boat without modern navigational aids.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

• Title : A Woman of Prince William Sound
• Size: 21in x 15 1/2in (535mm x 390mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82071

Description:
This large, beautifully detailed first-edition antique print, designated as plate #47, presents a striking portrait of a woman from Prince William Sound, Alaska. Observed during Captain James Cook's expedition in 1778, it was drawn from life by Cook's official voyage artist, John Webber, while HMS Resolution and Discovery were anchored in Snug Corner Cove. Engraved by James Basire the Elder, this historic image is widely celebrated as one of Webber's most successful illustrations and stands as a vital ethnographic record of the indigenous people of the Alaskan coast.
The guaranteed original 1784 copper-plate engraving was published in London for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the expedition: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S."
As a foundational piece of early Arctic exploration and maritime history, this rare and highly collectable print is a premier addition to any professional gallery, historical archive, or private collection.

Excerpt from Cooks Diary....May 1778.........On the 12th at nine in the morning, wrote Ledyard, we entered an inlet… at six in the evening perceiving bad weather approaching… both ships anchored… The pinnace of the Resolution with the first lieutenant, some other gentlemen and myself went to the opposite shore to shoot some wild fowl. The first lieutenant was John Gore. The inlet was named Sandwich Sound by Cook, after the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, but in the published version of his journal the name appeared as Prince Williams Sound, after George IIIs third son, Duke of Clarence, later William IV. The ships had anchored off Cape Hinchinbrook, named after the country seat of the Earl of Sandwich.
Some local inhabitants appeared and came aboard the ships. Clerke gave them a Glass Bowl, with which they seem\\\'d much delighted, and toss\\\'d me, in spight of all my motions to the contrary, one of their Frocks, which was made of Water fowl Skins, and exceedingly well calculated, to keep out both Wet & Cold; then, both Boats put off and made for the Shore, paddling & singing with all the Jollity imaginable. We either found these good folks on of their Jubilee Days, or they are a very happy Race.
They sailed on until Cook found a fine bay or rather harbour which he later called a very snug place and named Snug Corner Bay. Samwell on 14th wrote we secured the Ship with the small Anchor; in carrying this out in the Launch one of the Sailors was so unfortunate as to get his Leg entangled in the Buoy rope which carried him down with the Anchor, however he disengaged himself when he got to the bottom & came up again & saved his Life tho\\\' he had his Leg broke in a very dangerous Manner.
We heeled the ship to port wrote Gilbert, to examine the leak on the starboard buttock… it being close below the wale and occasioned by some of the seems being very open and the oakum quite rotten and great part of it got out. In two days we repaired this defect being obliged to put two and half inch rope along the seams which were too wide for caulking.
On 18th King noted two boats, one with Mr Gore & the other with the Master, were sent away, the first to explore the Inlet to the Noward: the other to the N end of the Island near us to make observations on the tides. William Bligh was master on the Resolution. They returned by Dusk, Mr Gore had proceeded up the Inlet & perceivd that it took a direction to the NE, & he thought that it bid fair for opening a communication to some other Sea; but the mate that was with him form\\\'d a very contrary opinion… the Captn judg\\\'d it the Wisest way to lose no more time, being certain that if we were amongst Islands, we shoud soon come to more Passages. Henry Roberts was the masters mate referred to here. Cook had sent him and others to sketch out the parts they examined.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21in x 15 1/2in (535mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 12 1/4in x 9 1/2in (310mm x 240mm)
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Very light soiling in margins
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background: 
Prince William Sound is located on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula, its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound contain numerous small islands, including Cordova and Whittier plus the Alaska native villages of Chenega and Tatitlek.
James Cook entered Prince William Sound in 1778 and named it Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. The name was changed to honour King George III third son, Prince William Henry, then aged 13 and serving as a midshipman in the Royal Navy.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

• Title : A Young Woman of Otaheiti, bringing of Present
• Ref  :  61250
• Size: 21 1/4in x 15in (540mm x 380mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #27, the third plate engraved of the Tahitian Islands and people, of a young woman presenting a bell shaped costume made of layers of Tahitian bark cloth - tapa - at Vaitepiha (Oaitipeha) Bay early in August 1777, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery reached Tahiti on 12 August 1777, anchoring in Vaitepiha (Oaitipeha) Bay on the island's eastern peninsula after leaving Tonga. This was Cook's fourth visit to the island, and one of his aims was to return Omai (Mai), the Raiatean man who had travelled to England, to the Society Islands. Cook found that Tahitians were eager for red feathers, which the crews had collected in Tonga, and these became the most valued trade goods, far more than iron. Local people also told him about Spanish ships that had visited in 1774, and he saw the wooden cross they left, which had a Latin inscription claiming the island for Spain. Cook had his own inscription added to the cross. Later in the month, on 24 August, the ships moved to Matavai Bay on the northern coast, where Cook met the paramount chief Tū, later known as Pomare I. Cook stayed at Tahiti until late September, and in that time he witnessed a human sacrifice at a marae, a ceremony that disturbed many of the crew and became one of the most discussed episodes of the voyage.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/4in x 15in (540mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 13 1/2in x 11in (405mm x 280mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Woman of Eaoo
• Ref  :  61248
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #23, the tenth and final plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of a woman of the island of Eua (Eaoo) Tonga was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by James Hall for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
aper size: - 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 11 1/2in x 9in (290mm x 230mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands
• Ref  :  61244
• Size: 21in x 14 3/4in (540mm x 375mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (B) Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #18, the sixth plate engraved of the Tongan Islands and people, of the King or Tu'i of Tonga (Friendly Islands) , was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by James Hall for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook spent roughly three and a half months among the Tongan islands in 1777, arriving at Nomuka (Anamooka) in late April after the stops at Mangaia and Atiu. The ships then moved on to Lifuka in the Ha'apai group, where the chief Finau hosted feasts, boxing matches and dances for the crews. There Cook also met Poulaho, the Tu'i Tonga, the paramount chief of the islands, who accompanied him to Tongatapu. The ships stayed at Tongatapu from mid-June to mid-July, where Cook observed the inasi (first-fruits) ceremony honouring Poulaho's son and visited sacred burial mounds. He named the group the Friendly Islands for the hospitality he received, although petty thefts during the stay led him to punish Islanders harshly, and later accounts suggest that Finau's hospitality may have masked a plan to attack the ships. Cook left in July and sailed for Tahiti.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
aper size: - 21in x 14 3/4in (540mm x 375mm)
Plate size: - 11 1/4in x 9in (285mm x 230mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - 6in repair to bottom margin, not affecting image and no loss
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A view of Christmas Harbour in Kerguelens Land
• Ref  :  61253
• Size: 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm)
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This rare first-edition 1784 antique print, plate #4, captures HMS Resolution and Discovery anchored in Christmas Bay on Kerguelen Island on Christmas Day, 1776. Kerguelen is located in the southern Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. This original print, was published for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Drawn from life by Captain Cook’s official voyage artist, John Webber, and expertly engraved by James Newton, this historic landscape vividly documents the arrival of the expedition in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean at the beginning of Cook’s third voyage.
Excerpt from Captain Cooks diary..........I found the shore in a manner covered with Penguins and other birds and Seals…so fearless that we killed as ma(n)y as we chose for the sake of their fat or blubber to make Oil for our lamps and other uses… Here I displayed the British flag and named the harbour Christmas harbour as we entered it on that Festival..... (Journals III, i, 29-32)

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 1/2in x 15in (545mm x 380mm)
Plate size: - 16in x 10 1/2in (410mm x 270mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light discoloration in top margin
Plate area: - Light crease
Verso: - Small discoloured spot in center of verso

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

Kerguelen Islands, sometimes called the Desolation Islands, are located in the southern Indian Ocean and were discovered by the French navigator Yves de Kerguelen-Trémarec in 1772. On Christmas Day, 1776 Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery anchored in Oiseau Bay, which he named Christmas Harbour. Cooks men discovered a bottle containing a message in Latin left by Kerguelens men. Cook wrote in his log: “I could have very properly called the island Desolation Island to signalise its sterility, but in order not to deprive M. de Kerguelen of the glory of having discovered it, I have called it Kerguelen Land.”

James King (1750–1784) was a British naval officer and astronomer who served as second lieutenant on Cook's third voyage aboard the Resolution. After the deaths of both James Cook (February 1779) and his successor Charles Clerke (August 1779), King took command of the Discovery and helped lead the expedition home. He later wrote the third volume of the official published account of the voyage, completing the narrative from Cook's death through the ships' return to England in 1780, and was promoted to captain shortly before his own early death from tuberculosis in 1784.

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A view of Christmas Harbour in Kerguelens Land
• Ref  :  61237
• Size: 20 1/2in x 14 1/2in (515mm x 370mm)
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This rare first-edition 1784 antique print, plate #4, captures HMS Resolution and Discovery anchored in Christmas Bay on Kerguelen Island on Christmas Day, 1776. Kerguelen is located in the southern Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. This original print, was published for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Drawn from life by Captain Cook’s official voyage artist, John Webber, and expertly engraved by James Newton, this historic landscape vividly documents the arrival of the expedition in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean at the beginning of Cook’s third voyage.
Excerpt from Captain Cooks diary..........I found the shore in a manner covered with Penguins and other birds and Seals…so fearless that we killed as ma(n)y as we chose for the sake of their fat or blubber to make Oil for our lamps and other uses… Here I displayed the British flag and named the harbour Christmas harbour as we entered it on that Festival..... (Journals III, i, 29-32)

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 20 1/2in x 14 1/2in (515mm x 370mm)
Plate size: - 16in x 10 1/2in (410mm x 270mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling in margins
Plate area: - None
Verso: - 3 small creases re-enforced with archival tape on verso

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

Kerguelen Islands, sometimes called the Desolation Islands, are located in the southern Indian Ocean and were discovered by the French navigator Yves de Kerguelen-Trémarec in 1772. On Christmas Day, 1776 Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery anchored in Oiseau Bay, which he named Christmas Harbour. Cooks men discovered a bottle containing a message in Latin left by Kerguelens men. Cook wrote in his log: “I could have very properly called the island Desolation Island to signalise its sterility, but in order not to deprive M. de Kerguelen of the glory of having discovered it, I have called it Kerguelen Land.”

James King (1750–1784) was a British naval officer and astronomer who served as second lieutenant on Cook's third voyage aboard the Resolution. After the deaths of both James Cook (February 1779) and his successor Charles Clerke (August 1779), King took command of the Discovery and helped lead the expedition home. He later wrote the third volume of the official published account of the voyage, completing the narrative from Cook's death through the ships' return to England in 1780, and was promoted to captain shortly before his own early death from tuberculosis in 1784.

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Man of Prince William Sound
• Size: 21in x 15in (535mm x 385mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1784
• Ref #:  82072

Description:
This large, beautifully detailed first-edition antique print, engraved as plate #46, presents a striking portrait of a man from Prince William Sound, Alaska, observed during Captain James Cook's expedition in 1778. Drawn from life by Cook's official voyage artist, John Webber, while HMS Resolution and Discovery were anchored in Snug Corner Cove, and expertly engraved by James Basire, this historic image stands as one of the earliest and most significant ethnographic records of the indigenous people of the Alaskan coast.

The guaranteed original 1784 copper-plate engraving was published in London for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the expedition: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S."
As a highly sought-after piece of early Arctic exploration and maritime history, this print is a premier addition to any serious private collection, gallery, or historical archive.

Excerpt from Cooks Diary.... May 1778.........On the 12th at nine in the morning, wrote Ledyard, we entered an inlet… at six in the evening perceiving bad weather approaching… both ships anchored… The pinnace of the Resolution with the first lieutenant, some other gentlemen and myself went to the opposite shore to shoot some wild fowl. The first lieutenant was John Gore. The inlet was named Sandwich Sound by Cook, after the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, but in the published version of his journal the name appeared as Prince Williams Sound, after George IIIs third son, Duke of Clarence, later William IV. The ships had anchored off Cape Hinchinbrook, named after the country seat of the Earl of Sandwich.
Some local inhabitants appeared and came aboard the ships. Clerke gave them a Glass Bowl, with which they seemd much delighted, and tossd me, in spight of all my motions to the contrary, one of their Frocks, which was made of Water fowl Skins, and exceedingly well calculated, to keep out both Wet & Cold; then, both Boats put off and made for the Shore, paddling & singing with all the Jollity imaginable. We either found these good folks on of their Jubilee Days, or they are a very happy Race.
They sailed on until Cook found a fine bay or rather harbour which he later called a very snug place and named Snug Corner Bay. Samwell on 14th wrote we secured the Ship with the small Anchor; in carrying this out in the Launch one of the Sailors was so unfortunate as to get his Leg entangled in the Buoy rope which carried him down with the Anchor, however he disengaged himself when he got to the bottom & came up again & saved his Life tho\\\' he had his Leg broke in a very dangerous Manner.
We heeled the ship to port wrote Gilbert, to examine the leak on the starboard buttock… it being close below the wale and occasioned by some of the seems being very open and the oakum quite rotten and great part of it got out. In two days we repaired this defect being obliged to put two and half inch rope along the seams which were too wide for caulking.
On 18th King noted two boats, one with Mr Gore & the other with the Master, were sent away, the first to explore the Inlet to the Noward: the other to the N end of the Island near us to make observations on the tides. William Bligh was master on the Resolution. They returned by Dusk, Mr Gore had proceeded up the Inlet & perceivd that it took a direction to the NE, & he thought that it bid fair for opening a communication to some other Sea; but the mate that was with him formd a very contrary opinion… the Captn judgd it the Wisest way to lose no more time, being certain that if we were amongst Islands, we shoud soon come to more Passages. Henry Roberts was the masters mate referred to here. Cook had sent him and others to sketch out the parts they examined.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 21in x 15 1/2in (535mm x 390mm)
Plate size: - 12 1/4in x 9 1/2in (310mm x 240mm)
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Spot in bottom margin
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background: 
Prince William Sound is located on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula, its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound contain numerous small islands, including Cordova and Whittier plus the Alaska native villages of Chenega and Tatitlek.
James Cook entered Prince William Sound in 1778 and named it Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. The name was changed to honour King George III third son, Prince William Henry, then aged 13 and serving as a midshipman in the Royal Navy.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

• Title : [A view in the island of Ulietea with a double canoe and a boathouse] ...E. Rooker sculp....No. 3
• Ref  :  31816
• Size: 18 1/2in x 10 1/2in (470mm x 265mm)
• Date : 1773
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print a view of fishing vessels, locals inspecting the days catch and views of the Island of Raiatea (Ulietea) in the Society Isles of French Polynesia, drawn by Sydney Parkinson, on Captain Cooks first visit to the Island in 1769, was engraved by Edward Rooker and published in the 1773 1st English edition of John Hawkesworths An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor. Drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; by John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In three volumes. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. London: printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCLXXIII.

..........a double canoe (pahi) with carved figures on bow and stern. Another double canoe in the background at right and a boathouse at left. There are a great number of boathouses all round the bays built with a Catanarian arch, thatched all over; and the boats kept in them are very long, bellying out on the sides, with a very high peak stern, and are used only at particular seasons.....from the account by Sydney Parkinson 1769

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 18 1/2in x 10 1/2in (470mm x 265mm)
Plate size: - 18 1/2in x 9 1/2in (470mm x 240mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Folds as issued
Plate area: - Folds as issued, creasing and light soiling along folds
Verso: - Folds as issued

Background: 
Raiatea, is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia. The island is widely regarded as the centre of the eastern islands in ancient Polynesia and it is likely that the organised migrations to Hawaii, Aotearoa and other parts of East Polynesia started at Raiātea.
A traditional name for the island is Havaii, homeland of the Māori people.
The first European to record sighting Ra iātea was Pedro Fernandes de Queirós in 1606; it was charted as La Fugitiva The Polynesian navigator, Tupaia, who sailed with explorer James Cook, was born in Raiātea around 1725.
Cook visited Raiatea in 1769 and again in 1773-1774. Omai (c.1751-1780), another young man from Raiātea, traveled with the European explorers to London in 1774 and also served as an interpreter to Captain Cook on his second and third journey.
King Tamatoa VI was the last monarch, reigning from 1884-1888.

Sydney Parkinson 1745 – 71 was draughtsman to the botanist Sir Joseph Banks on James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific in 1768. He died of dysentery in 1771, on the homeward voyage.
Parkinson was the first European artist to create drawings of Indigenous Australian, Maori & South Sea peoples, as well as landscapes, from direct observation. Hundreds of his original drawings survive in the British Museum. He is particularly remembered for his plant illustrations which were later used to create the lavish plates for Joseph Banks’ Florilegium.
When the Endeavour returned to England in 1772, a dispute arose between Joseph Banks and Sydney’s brother, Stanfield Parkinson. As his employer, Banks claimed rights to Sydney’s drawings, papers and collections made on the voyage. Stanfield claimed that Sydney had willed them to his family. Banks lent the Parkinson family Sydney’s journal and drawings with instructions that they were not to be published, however Stanfield disregarded this and arranged for A Journal of a voyage to the South Seas to be printed from Sydney’s account of the voyage.
Banks managed to suppress Stanfield’s publication until the official account of the voyage, edited by John Hawkesworth, appeared. In return for Parkinson’s papers, Banks paid Stanfield Parkinson 500 pounds for balance of wages due to Sydney, but the dispute did not end there. Stanfield further accused Banks of retaining items collected by Sydney which were intended for his relatives. Stanfield Parkinson was declared insane soon after the publication of Sydney Parkinson’s Journal and died in an asylum.

John Hawkesworth an English writer and journalist, Hawkesworth was commissioned by the British Admiralty to edit for publication the narratives of its officers’ circumnavigations. He was given full access to the journals of the commanders and the freedom to adapt and re-tell them in the first person. Cook was already on his way back from his second Pacific voyage, temporarily docked at Cape Town (South Africa), when he first saw the published volumes: he was mortified and furious to find that Hawkesworth claimed in the introduction that Cook had seen and blessed (with slight corrections) the resulting manuscript. (In his defense, Hawkesworth also had been a victim of misunderstanding.) Cook had trouble recognizing himself. Moreover, the work was full of errors and commentary introduced by Hawkesworth and, in Cook’s view, too full of Banks, who had promoted himself and the publication. Still, the work was popular; the first edition sold out in several months.

Edward Rooker 1712 – 1774 was an English engraver, draughtsman and actor.

• Title : Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their Habitations
• Ref  :  61271
• Size: 21 3/4in x 15 3/4in (550mm x 395mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #54, the only plate of Norton Sound in the Bering Straits, Alaska a view of a village & its inhabitants in September 1778, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by Benjamin Thomas Pouncy for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

In the summer of 1778, Cook's search for the Northwest Passage took him to both sides of the Bering Strait. He landed on the Chukotski Peninsula in Siberia on 10 August and met the Chukchi, who welcomed his party, and the two sides traded European knives, beads and tobacco for Chukchi clothes, gloves and arrows. Though the visit lasted only a few hours, Webber sketched their clothing, dogs and dome-shaped summer huts, and these became the plate "The Tschuktschi, and their Habitations".
The ships then passed north through the strait on 11 August. Pack ice stopped them off Alaska on 18 August, at about 70°N, and Cook spent the next eleven days working westward along the ice edge before reaching the Siberian coast again on 29 August. He gave up the search then and sailed south through the strait on 2 September. Turning to the Alaskan side, he explored the inlet he named Norton Sound after Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons, naming Cape Denbigh on 11 September and Besborough Island on 12 September. Like the Siberian coast, it offered no way through, since Norton Sound proved a shallow gulf and not a passage. Webber's plate of a family with their shelter and kayak is the main record of the people there. Cook then sailed for Unalaska and, after repairs, south to Hawaii for the winter.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 3/4in x 15 3/4in (550mm x 395mm)
Plate size: - 15 3/46in x 10in (400mm x 255mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : The Tschuktschi, and their Habitations
• Ref  :  61228
• Size: 21 3/4in x 15 1/2in (550mm x 395mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #51, the only plate illustrating the Chukotski Peninsula in Siberia, of a view of a Chukotski Village & its inhabitants in August 1778, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by Daniel Lerpiniere for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

In the summer of 1778, Cook's search for the Northwest Passage took him to both sides of the Bering Strait. He landed on the Chukotski Peninsula in Siberia on 10 August and met the Chukchi, who welcomed his party, and the two sides traded European knives, beads and tobacco for Chukchi clothes, gloves and arrows. Though the visit lasted only a few hours, Webber sketched their clothing, dogs and dome-shaped summer huts, and these became the plate "The Tschuktschi, and their Habitations".
The ships then passed north through the strait on 11 August. Pack ice stopped them off Alaska on 18 August, at about 70°N, and Cook spent the next eleven days working westward along the ice edge before reaching the Siberian coast again on 29 August. He gave up the search then and sailed south through the strait on 2 September. Turning to the Alaskan side, he explored the inlet he named Norton Sound after Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons, naming Cape Denbigh on 11 September and Besborough Island on 12 September. Like the Siberian coast, it offered no way through, since Norton Sound proved a shallow gulf and not a passage. Webber's plate of a family with their shelter and kayak is the main record of the people there. Cook then sailed for Unalaska and, after repairs, south to Hawaii for the winter.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 21 3/4in x 15 1/2in (550mm x 395mm)
Plate size: - 16in x 10in (405mm x 255mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A view of Christmas Harbour in Kerguelens Land
• Ref  :  31726
• Size: 20in x 14 1/2in (510mm x 370mm)
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (B+) Good Condition

Description:
This rare first-edition 1784 antique print, plate #4, captures HMS Resolution and Discovery anchored in Christmas Bay on Kerguelen Island on Christmas Day, 1776. Kerguelen is located in the southern Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. This original print, was published for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of the journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Drawn from life by Captain Cook’s official voyage artist, John Webber, and expertly engraved by James Newton, this historic landscape vividly documents the arrival of the expedition in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean at the beginning of Cook’s third voyage.
Excerpt from Captain Cooks diary..........I found the shore in a manner covered with Penguins and other birds and Seals…so fearless that we killed as ma(n)y as we chose for the sake of their fat or blubber to make Oil for our lamps and other uses… Here I displayed the British flag and named the harbour Christmas harbour as we entered it on that Festival..... (Journals III, i, 29-32)

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.
An exceptional and highly sought-after print, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - Early
Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 19 1/2in x 14 1/2in (495mm x 370mm)
Plate size: - 16in x 10 1/2in (410mm x 270mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light crease in L & R margins
Plate area: - Single vertical crease along top of image, pressed out
Verso: - Crease flattened with archival tissue paper

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) to the South Pacific & NW America and the eastern Russian Peninsula of Kamchatka, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage). Below is each location visited by Cook & later Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 24 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

Kerguelen Islands, sometimes called the Desolation Islands, are located in the southern Indian Ocean and were discovered by the French navigator Yves de Kerguelen-Trémarec in 1772. On Christmas Day, 1776 Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery anchored in Oiseau Bay, which he named Christmas Harbour. Cooks men discovered a bottle containing a message in Latin left by Kerguelens men. Cook wrote in his log: “I could have very properly called the island Desolation Island to signalise its sterility, but in order not to deprive M. de Kerguelen of the glory of having discovered it, I have called it Kerguelen Land.”

James King (1750–1784) was a British naval officer and astronomer who served as second lieutenant on Cook's third voyage aboard the Resolution. After the deaths of both James Cook (February 1779) and his successor Charles Clerke (August 1779), King took command of the Discovery and helped lead the expedition home. He later wrote the third volume of the official published account of the voyage, completing the narrative from Cook's death through the ships' return to England in 1780, and was promoted to captain shortly before his own early death from tuberculosis in 1784.

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : A Sea Otter
• Ref  :  61224
• Size: 20 3/4in x 15 1/2in (525mm x 395mm) 
• Date : 1784
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This scarce first-edition large antique print, plate #43, the sixth plate engraved of Nootka Sound and its inhabitants, of a Sea Otter in Nootka Sound Vancouver Island Canada in April 1778, whose fur was much prized by Cook and crew for clothes and later trade during their voyage looking for the NW passage, was drawn by John Webber (Cooks official onboard artist) and expertly engraved by Paul Mazell for the official, British Admiralty-sanctioned account of Cooks journey: "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, written by James Cook & Capt J Clerk, F.R.S. Vol. III in London, 1784.

Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery reached the American Northwest Coast in late March 1778 and anchored in Ship Cove, in the sound Cook named King George's Sound. It later became known as Nootka Sound, a name that came from a misunderstanding of what the local people said. The ships stayed from 29 March to 26 April, mainly to repair rigging and replace masts and spars, and this was the first sustained contact between Europeans and the Nuu-chah-nulth people of the region. The Nuu-chah-nulth came out in canoes to trade, and Cook's crews bought many sea otter pelts and other furs in exchange for iron, brass and other metal goods. The men used the skins as warm bedding and clothing. The expedition's artist, John Webber, drew the people, their houses and carvings, and the animals of the coast, including the sea otter. He and Cook visited the village of Yuquot on 22 April. Cook did not yet understand how valuable the pelts were. After his death in Hawaii in 1779, the expedition reached Canton in China, where the furs sold for very high prices, and some of the crew wanted to go straight back for more. The published account of the voyage in 1784 spread the news, and Nootka Sound became the starting point of the maritime fur trade.

Exceptional and highly sought-after large museum quality prints, perfect for collectors of Captain Cook history, maritime art, and early Australian, Pacific & Polar exploration.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -  
Colors used: -  
General color appearance: -  
Paper size: - 20 3/4in x 15 1/2in (525mm x 395mm)
Plate size: - 10 1/2in x 7 3/4in (265mm x 195mm) 
Margins: - Min 2in (50mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light creasing
Plate area: - Light creasing
Verso: - Light creasing

Background:
Captain James Cook's third and final voyage (1776–1780) set out from Plymouth to search for a Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands before visiting Tasmania and New Zealand and threading through the Pacific islands — Tonga, Tahiti, and the Society Islands — over the course of 1777. In January 1778 Cook became the first European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the Sandwich Islands, and from there sailed to the west coast of North America, charting the coastline from Oregon up through Nootka Sound, Unalaska (Alaska), and the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, where pack ice forced him to turn back in August 1778. He wintered in Hawaii, anchoring at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, where a dispute with islanders turned violent and Cook was killed on 14 February 1779. Command passed to Charles Clerke, who made one more unsuccessful attempt at the Northwest Passage before the expedition sailed home via Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) , Macau, and the Cape of Good Hope, finally reaching England in October 1780.

Captain James Cook's third and final voyage A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... In Three Volumes. Vol. I & II and Atlas, was illustrated in the original 1784/5 atlas containing 2 maps and 61 prints, engraved after John Webber's drawings (Cooks official artist on the voyage) by various engravers. Below is each location visited by Cook and later Capt. Clerk with the dates and corresponding prints.

Kerguelen Islands (Christmas Harbour) — 25 December 1776 
• Plate 4 — A View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen's Land

Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adventure Bay — January 1777 
• Plate 6 — A man of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 7 — A woman of Van Diemen's Land 
• Plate 8 — An opossum of Van Diemen's Land

Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand — February 1777 
• Plate 10 — The Inside of a Hippah in New Zeeland

Mangaia, Cook Islands — March–April 1777 
• Plate 11 — A man of Mangea

Tongan (Friendly) Islands — April–July 1777 
• Plate 13 — A view at Anamooka 
• Plate 14 — The reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee 
• Plate 15 — A boxing match, in Hapaee 
• Plate 16 — A night dance by men, in Hapaee 
• Plate 17 — A night dance by women, in Hapaee 
• Plate 18 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands 
• Plate 20 — Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, drinking kava 
• Plate 21 — A Fiatooka (Morai), in Tongataboo 
• Plate 22 — The Natche, a ceremony in Tongataboo 
• Plate 23 — A woman of Eaoo

Tahiti (Otaheite) — August 1777
• Plate 25 — A human sacrifice, in a marai 
• Plate 26 — The body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death 
• Plate 27 — A young woman of Otaheite, bringing a present 
• Plate 28 — A dance in Otaheite 
• Plate 29 — A young woman of Otaheite, dancing

Huahine, Society Islands — October–November 1777 
• Plate 31 — A view of Huaheine

Christmas Island (Kiritimati) — December 1777 
• Discovered on this leg of the voyage; not separately plated

Kauai (Atooi), Hawaiian Islands — January 1778 (first European landfall in Hawaii) • Plate 33 — A Morai, in Atooi 
• Plate34 — The inside of the house, in the Morai 
• Plate 35 — An inland view, in Atooi

Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island — March–April 1778 
• Plate 38 — A man of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 39 — A woman of Nootka Sound 
• Plate 40 — Various articles, at Nootka Sound 
• Plate 41 — A view of the habitation in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 42 — The inside of a house in Nootka Sound 
• Plate 43 — A sea otter

Prince William Sound, Alaska — May 1778
• Plate 45 — A view of Snug Corner, in Prince William Sound 
• Plate 46 — A man of Prince William Sound 
• Plate 47 — A woman of Prince William Sound

Unalaska (Oonalashka) — June and October 1778 
• Plate 48 — A man of Oonalashka 
• Plate 49 — A woman of Oonalashka 
• Plate 50 — Canoes of Oonalashka 
• Plate 56 — Caps of the natives of Oonalashka 
• Plate 57 — Natives of Oonalashka, and their habitations 
• Plate 58 — The inside of a house, in Oonalashka

Norton Sound and the Chukchi Coast, Siberia — August 1778 
• Plate 51 — The Tschuktschi, and their habitations 
• Plate 54 — Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their habitations

Arctic Ocean, near the Bering Strait — August 1778 (Cook turned back by ice) 
• Plate 52 — Sea horses (walruses)

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii (Owyhee) — January–February 1779 (Cook killed 14 February 1779) 
• Plate 60 — An offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 61 — Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook 
• Plate 62 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, dancing 
• Plate 63 — A young woman of the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 64 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet 
• Plate 65 — A canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the rowers masked 
• Plate 66 — A man of the Sandwich Islands, in a mask 
• Plate 67 — Various articles, at the Sandwich Islands 
• Plate 68 — A view of Karakakooa, in Owyhee

Kamchatka, St Peter and St Paul Harbour (Petropavlovsk) — spring and summer 1779 
• Plate 70 — A man of Kamtschatka, travelling in winter 
• Plate 71 — A sledge of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 72 — A view at Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 73 — A white bear 
• Plate 74 — A view of the town and harbour of St Peter and St Paul 
• Plate 75 — A man of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 76 — A woman of Kamtschatka 
• Plate 77 — Summer and winter habitations, in Kamtschatka 
• Plate 78 — The inside of a winter habitation in Kamtschatka

Return to England — October 1780

John Webber (1751–1793) was a Swiss-born British artist who served as the official expedition artist on Cook's third voyage, tasked with visually documenting the peoples, landscapes, and events the ships encountered. His drawings — later engraved as the 61 plates in the atlas accompanying the 1784 official account — provided some of the first detailed European depictions of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest coast, and other Pacific and Arctic locales, including the scene of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Webber was elected a full Royal Academician in 1791 and continued to exhibit landscape work until his death in 1793.

• Title : Quadrupede nomme Kanguroo trouve fur la Cote de la N.Hollande
  [The Kanguroo, an Animal found on the Coast of New Holland]
• Ref  :  35016
• Size: 10in x 8in (255mm x 205mm)
• Date : 1774
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of a Kangaroo, first sketched by Sydney Parkinson onboard HMS Endeavour during Cooks first voyage in 1770, whilst laid up at Endeavour River in northern Queensland, was engraved by Robert Benard, after a painting by the famous English Artist George Stubbs in 1772. This original engraving was published in the 1774 French edition of Capt. James Cooks 1st Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas by John Hawkesworth in An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, Drawn Up from the Journals Which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks. Paris, 1774.

From Sydney Parkinsons Journal........soon after we arrived in the bay, we laid the ship on a steep bank, on the side of a river; set up tents on shore, unloaded her, carried all the cargo and provisions into them, and there lodged and accommodated our sick.
On the 22d, we examined the ship’s bottom, and found a large hole; through the planks into the hold, which had a piece of coral-rock, half a yard square, sticking in it: the same rock, therefore, that endangered us, yielded us the principal means of our redemption; for, had not this fragment intruded into the leak, in all probability the ship would have sunk.
We lost no time, but immediately set about repairing the ship’s bottom, and in a few days made it sound again. In the mean time, the boats were sent out, in search of another passage, which they found, and returned to the ship on the 3d of July.
On the 4th of July, the ship was carried to the other side of the river, and examined thoroughly; but, being found in good condition, she was soon placed in her former station; where she was loaded, and properly fitted to proceed on the voyage.
During the time we staid here, we picked up a great many natural curiosities from the reef we struck upon, consisting of a variety of curious shells, most of which were entirely new to Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander ...
Of quadrupeds, there are goats, wolves, a small red animal about the size of a squirrel; a spotted one of the viverra kind, and an animal of a kind nearly approaching the mus genus, about the size of a grey-hound, that had a head like a fawn’s; lips and ears, which it throws back, like a hare’s; on the upper jaw six large teeth; on the under one two only; with a short and small neck, near to which are the fore-feet, which have five toes each, and five hooked claws; the hinder legs are long, especially from the last joint, which, from the callosity below it, seems as if it lies flat on the ground when the animal descends any declivity; and each foot had four long toes, two of them behind, placed a great way back, the inner one of which has two claws; the two other toes were in the middle, and resembled a hoof, but one of them was much larger than the other. The tail, which is carried like a grey-hound’s, was almost as long as the body, and tapered gradually to the end. The chief bulk of this animal is behind; the belly being largest, and the back rising toward the posteriors. The whole body is covered with short ash-coloured hair; and the flesh of it tasted like a hare’s, but has a more agreeable flavour................

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Background: 
Sydney Parkinson 1745 – 71 was draughtsman to the botanist Sir Joseph Banks on James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific in 1768. He died of dysentery in 1771, on the homeward voyage.
Parkinson was the first European artist to create drawings of Indigenous Australian, Maori & South Sea peoples, as well as landscapes, from direct observation. Hundreds of his original drawings survive in the British Museum. He is particularly remembered for his plant illustrations which were later used to create the lavish plates for Joseph Banks’ Florilegium.
When the Endeavour returned to England in 1772, a dispute arose between Joseph Banks and Sydney’s brother, Stanfield Parkinson. As his employer, Banks claimed rights to Sydney’s drawings, papers and collections made on the voyage. Stanfield claimed that Sydney had willed them to his family. Banks lent the Parkinson family Sydney’s journal and drawings with instructions that they were not to be published, however Stanfield disregarded this and arranged for A Journal of a voyage to the South Seas to be printed from Sydney’s account of the voyage.
Banks managed to suppress Stanfield’s publication until the official account of the voyage, edited by John Hawkesworth, appeared. In return for Parkinson’s papers, Banks paid Stanfield Parkinson 500 pounds for balance of wages due to Sydney, but the dispute did not end there. Stanfield further accused Banks of retaining items collected by Sydney which were intended for his relatives. Stanfield Parkinson was declared insane soon after the publication of Sydney Parkinson’s Journal and died in an asylum.

John Hawkesworth An English writer and journalist, Hawkesworth was commissioned by the British Admiralty to edit for publication the narratives of its officers’ circumnavigations. He was given full access to the journals of the commanders and the freedom to adapt and re-tell them in the first person. Cook was already on his way back from his second Pacific voyage, temporarily docked at Cape Town (South Africa), when he first saw the published volumes: he was mortified and furious to find that Hawkesworth claimed in the introduction that Cook had seen and blessed (with slight corrections) the resulting manuscript. (In his defense, Hawkesworth also had been a victim of misunderstanding.) Cook had trouble recognizing himself. Moreover, the work was full of errors and commentary introduced by Hawkesworth and, in Cook’s view, too full of Banks, who had promoted himself and the publication. Still, the work was popular; the first edition sold out in several months.

Robert Bénard 1734 – 1777 was an 18th-century French engraver.
Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Ménard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d\'Alembert from 1751.
Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog.

George Stubbs ARA 1724 – 1806 was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. His most famous work is probably Whistlejacket, a painting of a prancing horse commissioned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, which is now in the National Gallery in London. This and two other paintings carried out for Rockingham break with convention in having plain backgrounds. Throughout the 1760s he produced a wide range of individual and group portraits of horses, sometimes accompanied by hounds. He often painted horses with their grooms, whom he always painted as individuals. Meanwhile, he also continued to accept commissions for portraits of people, including some group portraits. From 1761 to 1776 he exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain, but in 1775 he switched his allegiance to the recently founded but already more prestigious Royal Academy of Arts.
Stubbs also painted more exotic animals including lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, and rhinoceroses, which he was able to observe in private menageries. His painting of a kangaroo in 1772 after Cooks 1st Voyage to Australia, was the first glimpse of this animal for many 18th-century Britons

• Title : Carte d une partie de la Mer Du Sud...Cook 1769
• Ref #:  51016
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Size: 12in x 8in (300mm x 220mm) 
• Date: 1817

Description:
This original copper-plate engraved antique map drawn during the 1st Voyage of Captain James Cook to the South Pacific, New Zealand,  Australia, between 1769 &  1771 was later engraved by Pierre Brion and published by Henry Breton in the 1817 atlas "Biblio Portative Des Voyages Traduite De L Anglais" Par MM. Henry et Breton Tome XLII

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Background:
Cooks First Voyage (1768-1771)
The first voyage under Captain James Cooks command was primarily of a scientific nature. The expedition on the Endeavour initially sailed to Tahiti to observe the transit of the planet Venus in order to calculate the earths distance from the sun. Cook landed on the South Pacific island in April of 1769 and in June of that year the astronomical observations were successfully completed. In addition to these labors, very good relations with the Tahitians were maintained and the naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel C. Solander conducted extensive ethnological and botanical research.
Another purpose of the voyage was to explore the South Seas to determine if an inhabitable continent existed in the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. Upon leaving Tahiti, Cook named and charted the Society Islands and then continued southwest to New Zealand. His circumnavigation and exploration of that country also resulted in a detailed survey. Cook proceeded to Australia, where he charted the eastern coast for 2,000 miles, naming the area New South Wales. As a result of these surveys, both Australia and New Zealand were annexed by Great Britain. In addition to these explorations, the Endeavour returned to England without a single death from scurvy among its men, an historic feat at the time. The combination of these accomplishments brought Cook prominence, promotion, and the opportunity to lead further expeditions.

Cooks Second Voyage (1772-1775)
Based on the success of his first voyage, Cook was appointed by the Admiralty to lead a second expedition. Two ships were employed with Cook commanding the Resolution and Captain Tobias Furneaux in charge of the Adventure. The purpose was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to confirm the location of a southern continent. Cook proved that there was no Terra Australis, which supposedly was located between New Zealand and South America. Cook was convinced, however, that there was land beyond the southern ice fields. In his pursuit of this idea, this expedition was the first European voyage to cross the Antarctic Circle. In addition, in two great sweeps through the Southern latitudes, Cook made an incredible number of landfalls including New Zealand, Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and a number of smaller islands.
In addition to these navigational accomplishments and the accompanying expansion of geographical knowledge, the expedition also recorded a vast amount of information regarding the Pacific islands and peoples, proved the value of the chronometer as an instrument for calculating longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy.

Cooks Third Voyage (1776-1779)
In the course of his first two voyages, Cook circumnavigated the globe twice, sailed extensively into the Antarctic, and charted coastlines from Newfoundland to New Zealand. Following these achievements, Cooks third voyage was organized to seek an efficient route from England to southern and eastern Asia that would not entail rounding the Cape of Good Hope. The search for such a Northwest (or Northeast) Passage had been on the agenda of northern European mariners and merchants since the beginning of European expansion in the late fifteenth century. Englands growing economic and colonial interests in India in the later eighteenth century provided the stimulus for the latest exploration for this route.
Cook, again in command of the Resolution, was to approach the Northwest Passage from the Pacific accompanied by a second ship, the Discovery, captained by Charles Clerke. The ships left England separately, regrouped at Cape Town, and continued on to Tasmania, New Zealand, and Tahiti. The expedition then sailed north and made landfall at Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands. Cook continued northward and charted the west coast of North America from Northern California as far as the Bering Strait. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in a skirmish with natives on February 14, 1779. Upon Cooks death, Clerke took command of the expedition but died six months later. The ships returned to England in 1780 under John Gore, who had commanded the Discovery after Cooks death. From start to finish, the voyage had lasted more than four years. (Ref Tooley; M&B; Clancy)

• Title : Interieur D Un Morais D Atooi (Interior of a Morais in Atooi)
• Size: 16in x 10in (405mm x 260mm)
• Ref #:  21478
• Date : 1785
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of statues inside of a Hawaiian Heiau - temple - on the Island of Kauai (Atooi) Hawaii, visited by Captain Cook in 1778, during his 3rd & last Voyage of Discovery, was engraved by Robert Benard - after John Webber - and was published in the 1785 French edition of Capt. James Cook & Capt. James King publication A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majestys Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Paris, 1785.

Captain Cook arrived at Atooi (Kauai) on 19th January 1778 and stayed until 23rd January 1778.
On the 21st January, Cook accompanied by John Webber, proceeded inland from their beach side anchorage to Waimea, on the south coast of Kauai. Their intention was to examine elevated objects visible from the ship. It proved to be a morai, or temple similar to ones they had seen in Tahiti and other South Pacific islands. This structure was nearly 20-feet high and covered in a thin, light-grey cloth, which likely had ceremonial significance. The temple rested on a platform and consisted of thousands of rough-edged lava rock piled in a tight, mortarless fashion. In the center is the spindly-legged oracle tower, where the priest (kahuna) might seek counsel or pray. Carved figures with tapa and leaf offerings are seen outside thatched huts topped with pili, the tall grass that grew throughout the lowlands. In his journal, Cook took particular note of several stone objects he had observed:
...........about the middle of the Morai, there were three of these places in line. We were told three chiefs had been buried there, and before them was another that was oblong. This they called Tanga (taboo or kapu in Hawaiian) and gave us clearly to understand that three human sacrifices had been buried there, that is, one at the burial of each chief. Cooks Journals - January 21, 1778

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Background: 
Kauai is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands.
In 1778, Captain James Cook arrived at Waimea Bay, the first European known to have reached the Hawaiian islands. He named the archipelago after his patron the 6th Earl of Sandwich, George Montagu

Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America, having received statehood on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the only U.S. state located outside North America.
It is possible that Spanish explorers arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in the 16th century—200 years before Captain James Cook\\\'s first documented visit in 1778. Ruy López de Villalobos commanded a fleet of six ships that left Acapulco in 1542 bound for the Philippines with a Spanish sailor named Juan Gaetano aboard as pilot. Depending on the interpretation, Gaetanos reports describe an encounter with either Hawaii or the Marshall Islands. If de Villalobos crew spotted Hawaii, Gaetano would be considered the first European to see the islands. Some scholars have dismissed these claims due to a lack of credibility.
Spanish archives contain a chart that depicts islands at the same latitude as Hawaii but with a longitude ten degrees east of the islands. In this manuscript, the island of Maui is named La Desgraciada (The Unfortunate Island), and what appears to be Hawaii Island is named La Mesa (The Table). Islands resembling Kahoolawe, Lanai, and Molokai are named Los Monjes (The Monks). For two-and-a-half centuries, Spanish galleons crossed the Pacific from Mexico along a route that passed south of Hawaii on their way to Manila. The exact route was kept secret to protect the Spanish trade monopoly against competing powers.
The 1778 arrival of British explorer James Cook was the first documented contact by a European explorer with Hawaii. Cook named the archipelago as the Sandwich Islands in honor of his sponsor John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook published the islands location and rendered the native name as Owyhee. This spelling lives on in Owyhee County, Idaho. It was named after three native Hawaiian members of a trapping party who went missing in that area. The Owyhee Mountains were also named for them
Cook visited the Hawaiian Islands twice. As he prepared for departure after his second visit in 1779, a quarrel ensued as Cook took temple idols and fencing as firewood and a minor chief and his men took a ship\\\'s boat. Cook abducted the King of Hawaii Island, Kalani ōpu u, and held him for ransom aboard his ship in order to gain return of Cook\\\'s boat. This tactic had worked in Tahiti and other islands. Instead, Kalani ōpu u s supporters fought back, killing Cook and four marines as Cooks party retreated along the beach to their ship. They departed without the ships boat.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

Robert Bénard 1734 – 1777 was an 18th-century French engraver.
Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Ménard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d Alembert from 1751.
Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog.

• Title : Vue de Lanse Fermee de l entree Du Prince Guillaume (Entrance & view of the Prince William)
• Size: 14 1/2in x 10in (370mm x 255mm)
• Ref #:  31839
• Date : 1785
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of Captain Cooks ships HMS Resolution and Discovery anchored in Snug Corner Cove, Prince William Sound, Alaska, visited by Captain Cook in 1778, during his 3rd & last Voyage of Discovery, was engraved by Robert Benard - after John Webber - and was published in the 1785 French edition of Capt. James Cook & Capt. James King publication A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majestys Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Paris, 1785.

May 1778.........On the 12th at nine in the morning, wrote Ledyard, we entered an inlet… at six in the evening perceiving bad weather approaching… both ships anchored… The pinnace of the Resolution with the first lieutenant, some other gentlemen and myself went to the opposite shore to shoot some wild fowl. The first lieutenant was John Gore. The inlet was named Sandwich Sound by Cook, after the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, but in the published version of his journal the name appeared as Prince Williams Sound, after George IIIs third son, Duke of Clarence, later William IV. The ships had anchored off Cape Hinchinbrook, named after the country seat of the Earl of Sandwich.
Some local inhabitants appeared and came aboard the ships. Clerke gave them a Glass Bowl, with which they seem\'d much delighted, and toss\'d me, in spight of all my motions to the contrary, one of their Frocks, which was made of Water fowl Skins, and exceedingly well calculated, to keep out both Wet & Cold; then, both Boats put off and made for the Shore, paddling & singing with all the Jollity imaginable. We either found these good folks on of their Jubilee Days, or they are a very happy Race.
They sailed on until Cook found a fine bay or rather harbour which he later called a very snug place and named Snug Corner Bay. Samwell on 14th wrote we secured the Ship with the small Anchor; in carrying this out in the Launch one of the Sailors was so unfortunate as to get his Leg entangled in the Buoy rope which carried him down with the Anchor, however he disengaged himself when he got to the bottom & came up again & saved his Life tho\' he had his Leg broke in a very dangerous Manner.
We heeled the ship to port wrote Gilbert, to examine the leak on the starboard buttock… it being close below the wale and occasioned by some of the seems being very open and the oakum quite rotten and great part of it got out. In two days we repaired this defect being obliged to put two and half inch rope along the seams which were too wide for caulking.
On 18th King noted two boats, one with Mr Gore & the other with the Master, were sent away, the first to explore the Inlet to the Noward: the other to the N end of the Island near us to make observations on the tides. William Bligh was master on the Resolution. They returned by Dusk, Mr Gore had proceeded up the Inlet & perceivd that it took a direction to the NE, & he thought that it bid fair for opening a communication to some other Sea; but the mate that was with him form\'d a very contrary opinion… the Captn judg\'d it the Wisest way to lose no more time, being certain that if we were amongst Islands, we shoud soon come to more Passages. Henry Roberts was the masters mate referred to here. Cook had sent him and others to sketch out the parts they examined

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Background: 
Prince William Sound is located on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula, its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound contain numerous small islands, including Cordova and Whittier plus the Alaska native villages of Chenega and Tatitlek.
James Cook entered Prince William Sound in 1778 and named it Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. The name was changed to honour King George III third son, Prince William Henry, then aged 13 and serving as a midshipman in the Royal Navy.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

Robert Bénard 1734 – 1777 was an 18th-century French engraver.
Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Ménard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d Alembert from 1751.
Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog.

• Title : Cimetiere D Atooi (Cemetery in Atooi)
• Size: 15 1/2in x 10in (390mm x 255mm)
• Ref #:  21441
• Date : 1785
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition

Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of the inside of a Hawaiian Heiau - temple - on the Island of Kauai (Atooi) Hawaii, visited by Captain Cook in 1778, during his 3rd & last Voyage of Discovery, was engraved by Robert Benard - after John Webber - and was published in the 1785 French edition of Capt. James Cook & Capt. James King publication A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majestys Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In Three Volumes. Vol. I and II written by James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Paris, 1785.

Captain Cook arrived at Atooi (Kauai) on 19th January 1778 and stayed until 23rd January 1778.
On the 21st January, Cook accompanied by John Webber, proceeded inland from their beach side anchorage to Waimea, on the south coast of Kauai. Their intention was to examine elevated objects visible from the ship. It proved to be a morai, or temple similar to ones they had seen in Tahiti and other South Pacific islands. This structure was nearly 20-feet high and covered in a thin, light-grey cloth, which likely had ceremonial significance. The temple rested on a platform and consisted of thousands of rough-edged lava rock piled in a tight, mortarless fashion. In the center is the spindly-legged oracle tower, where the priest (kahuna) might seek counsel or pray. Carved figures with tapa and leaf offerings are seen outside thatched huts topped with pili, the tall grass that grew throughout the lowlands. In his journal, Cook took particular note of several stone objects he had observed:
...........about the middle of the Morai, there were three of these places in line. We were told three chiefs had been buried there, and before them was another that was oblong. This they called Tanga (taboo or kapu in Hawaiian) and gave us clearly to understand that three human sacrifices had been buried there, that is, one at the burial of each chief. Cooks Journals - January 21, 1778

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 15 1/2in x 10in (390mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 14 1/2in x 9 1/2in (370mm x 245mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling
Plate area: - None
Verso: - Light soiling

Background: 
Kauai is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands.
In 1778, Captain James Cook arrived at Waimea Bay, the first European known to have reached the Hawaiian islands. He named the archipelago after his patron the 6th Earl of Sandwich, George Montagu

Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America, having received statehood on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the only U.S. state located outside North America.
It is possible that Spanish explorers arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in the 16th century—200 years before Captain James Cook\\\'s first documented visit in 1778. Ruy López de Villalobos commanded a fleet of six ships that left Acapulco in 1542 bound for the Philippines with a Spanish sailor named Juan Gaetano aboard as pilot. Depending on the interpretation, Gaetanos reports describe an encounter with either Hawaii or the Marshall Islands. If de Villalobos crew spotted Hawaii, Gaetano would be considered the first European to see the islands. Some scholars have dismissed these claims due to a lack of credibility.
Spanish archives contain a chart that depicts islands at the same latitude as Hawaii but with a longitude ten degrees east of the islands. In this manuscript, the island of Maui is named La Desgraciada (The Unfortunate Island), and what appears to be Hawaii Island is named La Mesa (The Table). Islands resembling Kahoolawe, Lanai, and Molokai are named Los Monjes (The Monks). For two-and-a-half centuries, Spanish galleons crossed the Pacific from Mexico along a route that passed south of Hawaii on their way to Manila. The exact route was kept secret to protect the Spanish trade monopoly against competing powers.
The 1778 arrival of British explorer James Cook was the first documented contact by a European explorer with Hawaii. Cook named the archipelago as the Sandwich Islands in honor of his sponsor John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook published the islands location and rendered the native name as Owyhee. This spelling lives on in Owyhee County, Idaho. It was named after three native Hawaiian members of a trapping party who went missing in that area. The Owyhee Mountains were also named for them
Cook visited the Hawaiian Islands twice. As he prepared for departure after his second visit in 1779, a quarrel ensued as Cook took temple idols and fencing as firewood and a minor chief and his men took a ship\\\'s boat. Cook abducted the King of Hawaii Island, Kalani ōpu u, and held him for ransom aboard his ship in order to gain return of Cook\\\'s boat. This tactic had worked in Tahiti and other islands. Instead, Kalani ōpu u s supporters fought back, killing Cook and four marines as Cooks party retreated along the beach to their ship. They departed without the ships boat.

Captain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served under James Cook on his last voyage around the world, specialising in taking important astronomical readings using a sextant. After Cook died he helped lead the ships on the remainder of their course, also completing Cooks account of the voyage. He continued his career in the Navy, reaching the rank of post-captain, commanding several ships and serving in the American War of Independence.
King joined HMS Resolution as second lieutenant, sharing the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant and with Larcum Kendals timekeeper K1, to establish the Resolutions position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cooks surveys. Thus Kings geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage and his use of the early chronometers helped prove their use at sea for calculation of Longitude. .
Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cooks successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolutions consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cooks third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted Post-captain and appointed commander of HMS Crocodile in the English Channel.

John Webber RA 1751 – 1793 was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska.
Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris.His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744.
Webber served as official artist on James Cooks third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–80) aboard HMS Resolution. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of A Man of Van Diemens Land and A Woman of Van Diemens Land. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people.
In April 1778, Captain Cooks ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778. His drawings and paintings were engraved for British Admiraltys account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.
Back in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 1784 and 1792, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. in 1791. Most of his work were landscapes. Sometimes figures were included as in A Party from H.M.S. Resolution shooting sea horses, which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his The Death of Captain Cook became well known through an engraving of it. Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney

Robert Bénard 1734 – 1777 was an 18th-century French engraver.
Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Ménard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d Alembert from 1751.
Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog.

• Title : Ornemens et Armes de la Nouvelle Caledonie
• Size: 15in x 10in (380mm x 255mm)
• Ref #:  16362
• Date : 1778
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This large original copper-plate engraved antique print of various weapons, farming tools and ornaments from the New Caledonia Islands visited by Captain James Cook in September 1774, in HMS Resolution & Adventure, during his 2nd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas, was engraved by Robert Benard - after William Hodges - and was published in the 1778 French edition of Capt. James Cooks 2nd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World. Performed in His Majestys ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775..... Paris : Hotel de Thou ......1778.

The items illustrated are;
1. Lanee - Lance
2. Partie ornee de la Lance sur une plus grande Echelle - Larger scale of Lance handle
3. Chapeau de plumes &c. - Hat with feathers
4. Peigne - Comb
5. Piece de Corde dont ils se servent pour jetter leurs lances - Cord used to launch a spear
6 & 7. Differentes Massues - Two different types of club
8. Pioche pour Cultiver la Terre - Wooden farming hoe
9. Hache - Axe

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - Early
Colors used: - Yellow
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 15in x 10in (380mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 14 1/2in x 9 1/2in (370mm x 240mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Brown spotting to top of image
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background: 
New Caledonia is a special collective of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 1,210 km east of Australia and 20,000 km from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia sub-region, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral Sea. Locals refer to Grande Terre as Le Caillou (the pebble)
British explorer Captain James Cook was the first European to sight New Caledonia, on 4 September 1774, during his second voyage. He named it New Caledonia, as the northeast of the island reminded him of Scotland. The west coast of Grande Terre was approached by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse in 1788, shortly before his disappearance, and the Loyalty Islands were first visited between 1793 and 1796 when Mare, Lifou, Tiga, and Ouvea were mapped by William Raven. The American whaler encountered the island named then Britania, and today known as Mar (Loyalty Is.) in November 1793. From 1796 until 1840, only a few sporadic contacts with the archipelago were recorded. About fifty American whalers (identified by Robert Langsom from their log books) have been recorded in the region (Grande Terre, Loyalty Is., Walpole and Hunter) between 1793 and 1887. Contacts became more frequent after 1840, because of the interest in sandalwood

William Hodges RA 1744 – 1797 was an English painter. He was a member of James Cooks second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic.
Between 1772 and 1775 Hodges accompanied James Cook to the Pacific as the expeditions artist. Many of his sketches and wash paintings were adapted as engravings in the original published edition of Cooks journals from the voyage.
Most of the large-scale landscape oil paintings from his Pacific travels for which Hodges is best known were finished after his return to London; he received a salary from the Admiralty for the purposes of completing them. These paintings depicted a stronger light and shadow than had been usual in European landscape tradition. Contemporary art critics complained that his use of light and colour contrasts gave his paintings a rough and unfinished appearance.
Hodges also produced many valuable portrait sketches of Pacific islanders and scenes from the voyage involving members of the expedition..

Robert Bénard 1734 – 1777 was an 18th-century French engraver.
Specialized in the technique of engraving, Robert Ménard is mainly famous for having supplied a significant amount of plates (at least 1,800) to the Encyclopédie by Diderot & d\'Alembert from 1751.
Later, publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke reused many of his productions to illustrate the works of his catalog.