• 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 : Nouveau Voyage Autour Du Monde...Ou l on decrite en particular l Isthme de l Amerique, plusieurs côtes et isles des Indes Occidentales...1723
  (New Voyage around the world. In which are described in particular the Istmus of America, several Coasts & Islands of the West Indies, the Islands of Cape Verde, the passage through the Land of Fuego, the Southern Coasts of Chili, Peru, & Mexico. .   
• Size: 8vo
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition
• Date : 1723
• Ref #:  93005

Description:
French edition of William Dampier's account of his voyages around the World, in 2 volumes,  especially to the South Seas in the years 1683 to 1691. Dampier first sailed to Sierra Leone and from there to the Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, China, Indonesia and onto New Guinea. He then went ashore in northern Western Australia, in the Broome region, the region later named after him and then sailed onto Sumatra, the Cape of Good Hope and back to Europe. 
Although John Brooke was probably shipwrecked on the Australian coast in 1621, without knowing where exactly he was, Dampier became the first Englishman to set foot in Australia, in the Broome NW region. Even though Dampier spent a good deal of his time as a Buccaneer, he wrote these accounts of his adventures without sensation, concentrating on the hydrographic, geographic and scientific details. This helped him establish his legitimacy, bringing immediate academic acclaim rather than condemnation as a pirate.
Dampier was first person to circumnavigate the world three times between 1679 & 1711. He has also been described as Australias first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook.
After impressing the British Admiralty with his book, A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, but was court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage, he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crew mate who may have inspired Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe. Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook, Lord Nelson, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

These two leather bound Volumes, contain 20 maps & plates (some folding) and was published in Amsterdam by David Paul Marret in 1723 (dated)

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 8vo
Plate size: - 8vo
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Please see below for condition report
Plate area: - Please see below for condition report
Verso: - Please see below for condition report

Background:
The two volumes contain the following titles with 20 maps & plates.
Volume 1.
1. Nouveau Voyage Autour Du Monde...Ou l\'on decrite en particular l\'Isthme de l\'Amerique, plusieurs côtes et isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les côtes meridionales du Chili, du Perou & du Mexique; l\'Isle de Guam, Mindanao, & des autres Philippines, les isles orientales qui sont prés de Cambodie; de la Chine; Formosa; Luçon, Celebes, &c., la Nouvelle Hollande, les Isles de Sumatra, de Nicobar & de Sainte Helene & le Cap de Bonne Esperance...Ou l\'on traite des differens terroirs de tous ces pays, de leurs ports, des plantes, des fruits & des animaux qu\'on y trouve; de leurs habitans, de leurs coûtumes, de leur religion, de leur gouvernement, de leur negoce, &c....1723
This volume refers to Dampiers voyages to North & South America, East Indies, SE Asia, China, Australia & Africa.
Contains Title page, 8 maps & plates total of 340 pages.
a) Mappe-Monde - World map with Dampiers tracks.
b) Maps of the Isthmus of Panama and Central America
c) Print of Natives gathering fruit
d) Print of Dampier loading Gold from the New World
e) Voyage au tour du Monde title page
f) Map of Mexico & southern North America
g) Print of a battle in the East indies
h) Print of a coconut palm in East Indies

2. Suite du Voyage Autour du Monde... Avec un Traite Des Vents qui regnent dans toute..LA ZONE TORRIDE Enrichi de Cartes & de Figures..1723
This volume refers to the continuation of Dampiers voyages to North & South America, East Indies, SE Asia, China, Australia & Africa along with a description of global winds and tides.
Contains title page along with 6 maps & plates, 227 pages.
a) Engraved Voyage au Tour Du Monde
b) Print of ships offshore from the city of Manila in the Phillippines
c) View of Manila
d) 2nd print of ships offshore from the city of Manila in the Phillippines
e) Map of the Philippines islands of Banshee
f) Map of Pulocondor, Malayia
g) Print of Dampiers ship and compass rose

3. Traits des Vents Aliisez ou Reglez des Vents Frais ...1715
This volume refers again to globe winds & tides.
Contains title page 2 maps & 148 pages
a) Description of winds and tides in the eastern hemisphere
b) Description of winds and tides in the eastern hemisphere

Volume 2.
1. Voyage Autour Du Monde... Contenant une Description d\'Achin,
Ville de Sumatra, du Royaume de Tonquin & autres Places des Indes,
& de la Baye de Campeche. Ou l\'on traite des differens terroirs de tous ces pays, de leurs ports, des plantes, des fruits & des animaux qu\'on y trouve; de leurs
habitans, de leurs coûtumes, de leur religion, de leur gouvernement,
de leur negoce, &c...1723
This volume refers to the continuation of Dampiers travels in East Indies, SE Asia & Mexico
Contains title page, 4 maps & plates, 264 pages.
a) Royalty in Vietnam
b) Map of central & north America
b) Print of Vietnam
c) Map of Australia & East Indies

2. Voyages de Guillaume Dampier a la Baye de Campeche...1714
This volume refers to Dampiers travel to Campeche, Mexico.
Contains title page and 197 pages.

Condition Report: Two volumes bound in full leather with five raised bands to spines, and title label. Couple of minor chips to top of both spines. The leather is scuffed and little pitted/worn (see photos). Internally there are a couple of small chips to inner edges of front and rear end-papers. Inscription to front end-papers (Gift of W. Wood 1745) and bookplate to inside front board (Lord Sandys). The title page of volume III and following four or so leaves have damp staining, and there is light damp staining throughout Volume I & II. The damp staining has caused the leaves to become softer and little chipped, with some nicks/tears and chips. There is a tear/crease to top inner edge and chip to bottom corner of title page of volume I. Scattered pale foxing/browning. Several of the plates have occasional creases. Four leaves of volume III are gently detaching and two leaves of volume I are missing. A few leaves are a little faded. Overall VG, in readable with firm binding.

Dampier, William 1651 - 1715
Dampier was an English explorer, navigator & buccaneer who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australias first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook.
After impressing the Admiralty with his book A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, before being court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe. Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Charles Darwin.
In 1679, Dampier joined the crew of the buccaneer Captain Bartholomew Sharp on the Spanish Main of Central America, twice visiting the Bay of Campeche, or Campeachy as it was then known, on the north coast of Mexico. This led to his first circumnavigation, during which he accompanied a raid across the Isthmus of Darién in Panama and took part in the capture of Spanish ships on the Pacific coast of that isthmus. The pirates then raided Spanish settlements in Peru before returning to the Caribbean.
Dampier made his way to Virginia, where in 1683 he was engaged by the privateer John Cooke. Cooke entered the Pacific via Cape Horn and spent a year raiding Spanish possessions in Peru, the Galápagos Islands, and Mexico. This expedition collected buccaneers and ships as it went along, at one time having a fleet of ten vessels. Cooke died in Mexico, and a new leader, Edward Davis, was elected captain by the crew.
Dampier transferred to the privateer Charles Swans ship, Cygnet, and on 31 March 1686 they set out across the Pacific to raid the East Indies, calling at Guam and Mindanao. Spanish witnesses saw the predominantly English crew as not only pirates and heretics but also cannibals. Leaving Swan and 36 others behind on Mindanao, the rest of the privateers sailed on to Manila, Poulo Condor, China, the Spice Islands, and New Holland. Contrary to Dampiers later claim that he had not actively participated in actual piratical attacks during this voyage, he was in fact selected in 1687 to command one of the Spanish ships captured by Cygnets crew off Manila.
On 5 January 1688, Cygnet anchored two miles from shore in 29 fathoms on the northwest coast of Australia, near King Sound. Dampier and his ship remained there until March 12, and while the ship was being careened Dampier made notes on the fauna and flora and the indigenous peoples he found there. Among his fellows were a significant number of Spanish sailors, most notably Alonso Ramírez, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico Later that year, by agreement, Dampier and two shipmates were marooned on one of the Nicobar Islands. They obtained a small canoe which they modified after first capsizing and then, after surviving a great storm at sea, called at Acheen (Aceh) in Sumatra.
Dampier returned to England in 1691 via the Cape of Good Hope, penniless but in possession of his journals. He also had as a source of income a slave known as Prince Jeoly (or Giolo), from Miangas (now Indonesia), who became famous for his tattoos (or paintings as they were known at the time). Dampier exhibited Jeoly in London, thereby also generating publicity for a book based on his diaries.
The publication of the book, A New Voyage Round the World, in 1697 was a popular sensation, creating interest at the Admiralty. In 1699, Dampier was given command of the 26-gun warship HMS Roebuck, with a commission from King William III (who had ruled jointly with Queen Mary II until her death in 1694). His mission was to explore the east coast of New Holland, the name given by the Dutch to what is now Australia, and Dampiers intention was to travel there via Cape Horn.
The expedition set out on 14 January 1699, too late in the season to attempt the Horn, so it headed to New Holland via the Cape of Good Hope instead. Following the Dutch route to the Indies, Dampier passed between Dirk Hartog Island and the Western Australian mainland into what he called Shark Bay on 6 August 1699. He landed and began producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna. The botanical drawings that were made are believed to be by his clerk, James Brand. Dampier then followed the coast north-east, reaching the Dampier Archipelago and Lagrange Bay, just south of what is now called Roebuck Bay, all the while recording and collecting specimens, including many shells. From there he bore northward for Timor. Then he sailed east and on 3 December 1699 rounded New Guinea, which he passed to the north. He traced the south-eastern coasts of New Hanover, New Ireland and New Britain, charting the Dampier Strait between these islands (now the Bismarck Archipelago) and New Guinea. En route, he paused to collect specimens such as giant clams.
By this time, Roebuck was in such bad condition that Dampier was forced to abandon his plan to examine the east coast of New Holland while less than a hundred miles from it. In danger of sinking, he attempted to make the return voyage to England, but the ship foundered at Ascension Island on 21 February 1701. While anchored offshore the ship began to take on more water and the carpenter could do nothing with the worm-eaten planking. As a result, the vessel had to be run aground. Dampiers crew was marooned there for five weeks before being picked up on 3 April by an East Indiaman and returned home in August 1701.
Although many papers were lost with Roebuck, Dampier was able to save some new charts of coastlines, and his record of trade winds and currents in the seas around Australia and New Guinea. He also preserved a few of his specimens. In 2001, the Roebuck wreck was located in Clarence Bay, Ascension Island, by a team from the Western Australian Maritime Museum. Because of his widespread influence, and also because so little exists that can now be linked to him, it has been argued that the remains of his ship and the objects still at the site on Ascension Island – while the property of Britain and subject to the island governments management – are actually the shared maritime heritage of those parts of the world first visited or described by him. His account of the expedition was published as A Voyage to New Holland in 1703.
The War of the Spanish Succession had broken out in 1701, and English privateers were being readied to act against French and Spanish interests. Dampier was appointed commander of the 26-gun ship St George, with a crew of 120 men. They were joined by the 16-gun Cinque Ports with 63 men, and sailed on 11 September 1703 from Kinsale, Ireland. The two ships made a storm-tossed passage round Cape Horn, arriving at the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile in February 1704. While watering and provisioning there, they sighted a heavily armed French merchantman, which they engaged in a seven-hour battle but were driven off.
Dampier succeeded in capturing a number of small Spanish ships along the coast of Peru, but released them after removing only a fraction of their cargoes because he believed they would be a hindrance to his greater designs. The greater design he had in mind was a raid on Santa María, a town on the Gulf of Panama rumoured to hold stockpiles of gold from nearby mines. When the force of seamen he led against the town met with unexpectedly strong resistance, however, he withdrew. In May 1704, Cinque Ports separated from St George and, after putting Alexander Selkirk ashore alone on an island for complaining about the vessels seaworthiness, sank off the coast of what is today Colombia. Some of its crew survived being shipwrecked but were made prisoners of the Spanish.
It was now left to St George to make an attempt on the Manila galleon, the main object of the expedition. The ship was sighted on 6 December 1704, probably Nuestra Señora del Rosario. It was caught unprepared and had not run out its guns. But while Dampier and his officers argued over the best way to mount an attack, the galleon got its guns loaded and the battle was joined. St George soon found itself out-sized by the galleons 18- and 24-pounders, and, suffering serious damage, they were forced to break off the attack.
The failure to capture the Spanish galleon completed the break-up of the expedition. Dampier, with about thirty men, stayed in St George, while the rest of the crew took a captured barque across the Pacific to Amboyna in the Dutch settlements. The undermanned and worm-damaged St George had to be abandoned on the coast of Peru. He and his remaining men embarked in a Spanish prize for the East Indies, where they were thrown into prison as pirates by their supposed allies the Dutch but later released. Now without a ship, Dampier made his way back to England at the end of 1707.
In 1708, Dampier was engaged to serve on the privateer Duke, not as captain but as sailing master. Duke beat its way into the South Pacific Ocean round Cape Horn in consort with a second ship, Duchess. Commanded by Woodes Rogers, this voyage was more successful: Selkirk was rescued on 2 February 1709, and the expedition amassed £147,975 (equivalent to £19.9 million today) worth of plundered goods. Most of that came from the capture of a Spanish galleon, Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño, along the coast of Mexico in December 1709.
In January 1710, Dampier crossed the Pacific in Duke, accompanied by Duchess and two prizes. They stopped at Guam before arriving in Batavia. Following a refit at Horn Island (near Batavia) and the sale of one of their prize ships, they sailed for the Cape of Good Hope where they remained for more than three months awaiting a convoy. They left the Cape in company with 25 Dutch and English ships, with Dampier now serving as sailing master of Encarnación. After a further delay at the Texel, they dropped anchor at the Thames in London on 14 October 1711.
Dampier may not have lived to receive all of his share of the expeditions gains. He died in the Parish of St Stephen Coleman Street, London. The exact date and circumstances of his death, and his final resting place, are all unknown. His will was proven on 23 March 1715, and it is generally assumed he died earlier that month, but this is not known with any certainty. (Ref Tooley M&B)

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• Title : Crimean War Maps, Prints & Views
• Date : 1853 - 57
  
• Size: 24in x 18in (610mm x 455mm) Elephant Folio
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition
• Ref:  35600

Description:
This is a unique and very comprehensive visual record of the Crimean War (1853 - 1856 & 57) in a huge Elephant Folio Album.
The album consists of 163 double pages with 328 original maps, prints and views of the War tipped in chronological order. These are mainly from the Illustrated London News, from the Wars beginning in 1853 to its end in 1856 through to the Coronation of Alexander II in 1857 and some of the first recipients of the Victoria Cross.
My impression is that the album was professionally organised and assembled  possibly by a political or historical organisation of the time, in the mid 19th century.
This album is extremely large measuring 28 inches x 18 inches (62cm x 46cm) when closed and weighs approx. 14 Kg. 

The Album contains; (in more detail directly below)

- 71 views of various battles during the conflict.
- 94 Portraits & prints of the leaders, generals,  & personnel who were in charge and soldiers, sailors who participated in the war. 

- 47 views of various cities and towns from the  participating countries England, Russia, Crimea, Turkey etc.
- 63 prints of naval fleets, battleships, sea battles, landings & evacuations..
- 15 Maps of various regions and conflicts
- 25 victory scenes in Britain
- 39 prints of portraits and views of the Coronation of Alexander II
- 4 Pages of recipients from both Army & Navy, of the first Victoria Cross. 

Battle Views (Battle of Kars, Kinburn, Sebastopol, Malakoff, Tchernaya, Sveaborg, Gheisk, Hango-Head, Narva, Balaclava, Inkerman, Charge of Light Cavalry Balaclava, Alma, Odessa, Crondstat, Citate, Oltenitza, Kalafat)

Prints of leaders, generals and soldiers (British, Russian, Turkish, Greek, French, Austrian, Peace Talks Paris, Congress of Vienna, Allied Naval Command, Marshall Pelissier, Wounded, Hospitals, Sir De Lacy Evans, Nicolas Emperor of Russia, Royal Marines,  Lord Raglan, Napoleon III, Commanders of Allied Armies in the East, Sultan of Turkey, Marshal St Arnaud, French Cavalry, French Infantry, British Infantry, British Navy, Sir Charles Napier, Rear Admiral Corry, & Plumridge, British Cavalry & Artillery Officers, Scots Guards, Royal marines, British Cavalry, Coldstream Guards, Grenadier Guards, Omer Pacha, General Prim)

Views of cities & towns (Balaclava, Kars, Sebastopol, Sveaborg, Helsingborg, Kiel, Copenhagen, Crondstat, St Petersberg, Kerch, Inkermann, Eupatoria, Alma, Coast of Crimea, Varna Bay, Odessa and Coast, Constantinople, Oltenitza, Sinope)

Fleets, battleships & sea battles (HMS Wellington, Steamers, British Fleet, Baltic Fleet, Gun Boats, Nystad, Sebastopol, Spithead, Portsmouth, Flying Squadron, Trafalgar and Resolution,  landing French Troops at Gallipoli, Duke of Wellingtons Flagship, Turkish Fleet in Biospheres, English & French Fleet in Besika Bay, HMS Neptune)

Maps  (Crimea & Black Sea region, Russia-Turkey, Constantinople, Austria-Russia,  Spithead review of Fleet, Sea of Azoff, Kerch, River Alma to Balaklava, Plan of Sebastopol, Seat of War in the Crimea, Sebastopol & Balaklava, Picturesque map of the seat of war, Battle of Alma,  The Ottoman Empire)

Florence Nightingale (Treating wounded, visiting wounded Balaclava)

Victory Scenes in England (illuminations, Parades, Queen, Brighton, Hyde Park, Awarding Medals, The Guards, Fireworks, Landing in Kalamita Bay)

The Album is huge Elephant Folio measuring 24in x 18in (610mm x 455mm) and weighing about 13kg (29lbs) The contemporary half morocco boards are worn, rubbed and detached from the internals that on the whole are clean and tight with occasional spotting and repairs with no loss.

Also included with the album is the following loose prints, maps and newspaper clippings;
- 47 prints and views from ILN on the British Expedition into Abyssinia in 1868.
- 39 prints, views and maps from the ILN and The Graphic on the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- 60 Newspaper clipping from 1882 of The Times, Evening Standard, Daily News and other papers again on the Anglo Egyptian War. 

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable.
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 24in x 18in (610mm x 455mm) each
Plate size: - 24in x 18in (610mm x 455mm) each
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)

Imperfections:
External Boards: - Worn, slit spine, scuffing detached from internals
Internal pages: - Overall clean, some spotting, light offsetting to some pages, several small repairs without loss

• Title : Arras
• Date : 1575
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Ref:  92833
• Size: 21in x 16in (535mm x 410mm)

Description:
This fine beautifully hand coloured original antique map a birds-eye view of the French City of Arras - the capital of the Pas de Calais region - was published by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg for the 1575 atlas of town plans Civiates Orbis Terrarum Vol II (1572-1612) intended as a companion to Abraham Ortelius's master Atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum published in 1570.

Background of Civitates Orbis Terrarum
The first volume of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum was published in Cologne in 1572. The sixth and the final volume appeared in 1617. 
This great city atlas, edited by Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, eventually contained 546 prospects, bird-eye views and map views of cities from all over the world. Braun (1541-1622), a cleric of Cologne, was the principal editor of the work, and was greatly assisted in his project by the close, and continued interest of Abraham Ortelius, whose Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570 was, as a systematic and comprehensive collection of maps of uniform style, the first true atlas.

For a variety of reasons town plans were comparatively latecomers in the long history of cartography. Few cities in Europe in the middle ages had more than 20,00 inhabitants and even London in the late Elizabethan period had only 100-150,000 people which in itself was probably 10 times that of any other English city. The Nuremberg Chronicle in 1493 included one of the first town views of Jerusalem, thereafter, for most of the sixteenth century, German cartographers led the way in producing town plans in a modern sense. In 1544 Sebastian Munster issued in Basle his Cosmographia containing roughly sixty-six plans and views, some in the plan form, but many in the old panorama or birds eye view. (Ref: Tooley; M&B)

Condition Report:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Early
Colors used: - Green, blue, red, yellow
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 21in x 16in (535mm x 410mm)
Plate size: - 19in x 14in (485mm x 355mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)

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

• Title : Guillaue De L Isle Geb. zu Paris d. 28 Febr. 1675 gest. ebendas d. 25 Jan 1726
• Date : 1808
  
• Size: 7in x 4 1/2in (180mm x 115mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Ref:  91417

Description:
This original copper-plate engraved antique print, a portrait of the famous cartographer Guillaume Delisle, by Jean Henri Cless was published in 1808 in Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia) by Friedrich Bertuch

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 7in x 4 1/2in (180mm x 115mm)
Plate size: - 5 1/2in x 3 1/2in (140mm x 90mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

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

Background:
Following the long period of Dutch domination, the Homann family became the most important map publishers in Germany in the eighteenth century, the business being founded by J.B. Homann in Nuremberg about the year 1702. Soon after publishing his first atlas in 1707 he became a member of the Berlin academy of Sciences and in 1715 he was appointed Geographer to the Emperor. After the founder's death in 1724, the firm was continued under the direction of his son until 1730 and was then bequeathed to his heirs on the condition that it trades under the name of Homann Heirs. The firm remained in being until the next century and had a wide influence on map publishing in Germany. Apart from the atlases the firm published a very large number of individual maps.
The Homman's produced a Neuer Atlas in 1714, a Grosser Atlas in 1737, and an Atlas Maior with about 300 maps in 1780. They also issued a special Atlas of Germany with full sized plans of principal cities, school atlases and an Atlas of Silesia in 1750 with 20 maps.

Cless, Jean Henri 1774- 1812
A pupil of Jacques-Louis David , he began to be active around 1800 and exhibited in Paris at the Salons from 1804 to 1808.
According to the Thieme-Becker 2 artistic dictionary , he returned to Alsace in 1811 , where many private collections hold his works.
Cless was also a draftsman and miniaturist .

• Title : Guilielmus Hondius, Calcographus Hagae Comitis. Ant. van Dyck pinxit, Guil. Hondius sculp
• Date : 1630-40
  
• Size: 9 3/4in x 7in (250mm x 180mm)
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition
• Ref:  91420

Description:
This original copper-plate engraved antique print of Guillaume Hondius, was engraved by himself (Guillaume Hondius) after the famous Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck 1599 - 1641 as part of his Iconographie series of engraved portraits of famous people at the time, between 1630-40.

A wonderfully detailed and charismatic portrait, this exquisite work illustrates the technical mastery and artistic vision of Van Dyck. Guillaume Hondius' stately yet approachable expression reflects Van Dyck's refined ability to comfort and relax his subjects, resulting in a realistic and acute portrait. This piece is intriguing because the subject and the engraver are one and the same, yet the image essentially is still Van Dyck's. Guillaumine Hondius engraves himself through the eyes of Van Dyck, depicted with kind eyes, a broad nose, and a pointy chin. Hondius stands with a calm demeanor, holding up his elaborately draped garment with his left hand and gazing straight out at us.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 9 3/4in x 7in (250mm x 180mm)
Plate size: - 9 3/4in x 7in (250mm x 180mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

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

Background:
Anthony van Dyck (also spelled van Dyke) was a renowned Flemish Baroque painter born on March 22, 1599, in Antwerp, Belgium, and died on December 9, 1641, in London, England. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential portrait painters of his time, known for his elegant and refined style.

Van Dyck showed great artistic talent from a young age and began his artistic training under the guidance of Hendrick van Balen, a local painter in Antwerp. Recognizing his potential, his parents enrolled him as an apprentice with Peter Paul Rubens, the leading Flemish painter of the time. Van Dyck spent six years in Rubens' studio, absorbing the master's techniques and developing his own skills.

By the age of 19, van Dyck had already established himself as an accomplished artist and was admitted as a master to the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. He primarily focused on religious and mythological subjects during his early years, reflecting the influence of Rubens' style. However, van Dyck soon turned his attention to portraiture, a genre that would bring him great success and recognition.

In the early 1620s, van Dyck traveled to Italy, where he spent several years studying the works of Italian Renaissance masters such as Titian and Tintoretto. This period of Italian sojourn greatly influenced his artistic style, leading to a refinement and sophistication in his portraiture. He became particularly renowned for his ability to capture the personality and character of his sitters, employing a sensitive and flattering approach.

Upon his return to Antwerp in 1627, van Dyck's reputation as a portraitist had grown significantly, attracting commissions from aristocrats, nobles, and prominent figures of the time. His portraits exuded a sense of grandeur and elegance, often featuring his subjects in elaborate costumes and settings. Van Dyck's remarkable talent for capturing the likeness and personality of his sitters earned him patrons and clients across Europe.

In 1632, van Dyck was invited to England by King Charles I, who had heard of his remarkable skill as a portrait painter. He was appointed as the court artist and granted a knighthood, becoming Sir Anthony van Dyck. During his time in England, van Dyck produced numerous portraits of the royal family, aristocracy, and influential figures of the British court. His ability to convey grace, poise, and nobility in his subjects revolutionized the art of portraiture in England.

Van Dyck's impact on English art was profound, and he played a crucial role in elevating the status of portrait painting within the art world. His influence extended beyond his lifetime, as many English portraitists were inspired by his style and approach. Van Dyck's legacy can be seen in the works of later artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and Thomas Lawrence.

Despite his success, van Dyck's life was plagued by financial troubles and personal difficulties. He led a lavish lifestyle and accumulated significant debts, which he struggled to repay. Moreover, his health deteriorated in his later years, possibly due to the strain of his extensive work. Van Dyck passed away in London at the age of 42, leaving behind a rich artistic legacy.

Anthony van Dyck's mastery of portraiture, characterized by his skillful rendering of his subjects' individuality and his elegant style, has made him one of the most celebrated painters in art history. His works continue to be admired and studied, serving as a testament to his enduring influence and artistic brilliance.

Hondius, Guillaume or Willem (1598/9 - 1658/60)
Willem Hondius was one of seven children of Hendrik Hondius the Elder (1573 – c. 1649) and Sara Jansdochter. His father was one of the most important Dutch reproductive printmakers and publishers in the early 17th century. A connection with the Hondius family of cartographers in Amsterdam is possible but has not been established.
In 1636 Willem visited Danzig in Poland. In 1641 he moved there from The Hague for good. Hondius was supported at the royal court of King Władysław IV Waza. The King awarded him the title of Chalcographus privilegialus (privileged engraver) and Chalcographus Regius (Royal engraver).
He was married twice, first in 1632 in The Hague to Kornelia van den Enden, secondly in 1646 in Danzig to Anna Mackensen, daughter of the Royal Goldsmith.
In August 1651, in the wake of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Hondius joined the army of Janusz Radziwiłł conquering Kiev. The first ever portrait of the famous Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky was engraved during this campaign.
Nothing is known of Hondius after 1652, though he may have lived until 1658.

• Title :
  1. The Commonwealth of Virginia
  2. Fairfax County Va April 15th 1861.
  3. State of West Virginia Green brier co. June 11th 1866.
  4. United States Stamp for Special Tax Internal Revenue.
• Date : 1851-1891
  
• Size: Please view description below
• Condition: (A) Good Condition
• Ref:  27090

Description:
We have on offer a group of 4 original antique documents, three of which relate directly to Virginia and the American Civil War dated 1851,1861, 1866. The first two documents concern Fontaine Beckham & Mottrom Dulany Ball with the third relating to Daniel Coffman. These three are very interesting and scarce items.
The fourth document relates to the Internal Revenue Service in 1891. Details, descriptions and conditions below.

1. Printed court summons signed by Fontaine Beckham (1788-1859) as justice of the peace, Jefferson County, Virginia, 8 January 1851. Printed sheet completed in manuscript, signed 'F Beckham'.
Fontaine Beckham was mayor of Harpers Ferry during the raid by John Brown in 1859 with Beckham infamously shot and killed during the raid, making him possibly one of the first casualties of the American Civil War.
Condition: Mounted on red-velvet-covered thick card mount, sheet torn at lower right-hand corner not affecting text. Condition Good. - 7in x 53/4in (18 x 14.6 cm)
Fontaine Beckham (1788-1859) was mayor of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and local agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was shot and killed in the famous raid on the small outpost by abolitionist John Brown, today seen as a major event in the build-up to the American Civil War.
...... Beckham was the most prominent man killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, being the town's mayor, a county magistrate (in which capacity he signs this document), and a station agent for the B & O Railroad. Despite being a slave owner himself, Beckham was quite well-liked and considered by most to be a friend and benefactor of black men. He maintained a close friendship with his former slave Heyward Shepard, who also died during the raid.. After Shepard's death, some accounts state the mayor exposed himself to fire due to his clouded judgment. After Beckham's death, the infuriated town's people seized one of John Brown's imprisoned men, riddling his body with bullets. Yet Beckham's death also resulted in the only lasting freeing of slaves accomplished by the raid, as his will stipulated the freeing of five of his slaves......)

2. Manuscript receipt for the purchase of 'negro slaves Dennis and Belinda', Fairfax County, Virginia, signed by a member of a prominent local family, Mrs. M C(sic) Ball, dated 15 April 1861. We believe this to a transaction by Mary Ball, the mother of the first Governor of Alaska, Mottrom Dulany Ball, who at the time was have been fighting for the confederacy. The verso of the receipt is marked for Dulany, (as he was sometimes known) who would have been considered the head of the family after the death of his farther in 1859. Single bifolium of heavy woven paper, 10 lines, written on one side only, conjugate leaf docketed 'Dulany'
Condition: Damp-stained, creased from folding, loss to upper inner corner. Although stained the parchment is stable and heavy. Condition Good.
- 7 1/2in x 53/4in (18.2 x 13.8 cm)
Mottrom Dulany Ball, of Fairfax County, Fairfax Court House, and Alexandria, Virginia, was a musician, poet, teacher, lawyer, soldier and a founding father of the State of Alaska. Mottrom Dulany Ball, who was known variously as Mott, M.Dulany, or M.D., was born at Oak Mount, the home of his grandfather, Daniel French Dulany, in Fairfax County, Virginia on June 23, 1835.
Mott was the son of Spencer Mottrom Ball and Mary L. Dulany. Both parents were from prominent Virginia families. President George Washington is included among their many distinguished relatives. Mott’s early years were spent at his grandfather, Mottrom Ball’s, plantation, Woodberry, near Lewinsville, Fairfax County, Virginia. The elder Mottrom Ball was a physician who was educated at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland. TheBall family estate, Woodberry, consisted of 1,200 acres of land, rectangular in shape, extending north from the Lewinsville Presbyterian Church all the way to the to the Potomac River. 2, 3 The extensive plantation included a grist mill, Ball’s Mill, which stood on Scott’s Run. The location is today known as Swink’s Mill.4 Modern day Ball’s Hill Road traces the path of a farm road which ran through the center of Woodberry ending at the family home, Elmwood, on Ball’s Hill, also known as Prospect Hill, just south of Georgetown Pike.5 Politically, Mott’s father, Spencer Mottrom Ball, was an Anti-Jacksonian. As the name implies, this party was opposed to the authoritarian policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party. Several anti-Jacksonian factions came together to form the Whig party in 1834. Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the presidency.....)

3. Contemporary manuscript copy of two affidavits, one the same sheet, confirming Daniel Coffman to have been a loyal man during the rebelion [sic]', Greenbrier County, West Virginia, 1866.
Single sheet of lined paper written recto only, small embossed stamp depicting the Capitol Building and with text 'Congress' various inconsistencies in spelling.
Condition: Old folds, central fold just splitting at head, nicked along inner edge. Condition Good.
- 9in x 7in (23.5 x 17.8 cm)
First affidavit.
State of West Virginia Greenbrier Co. June 1866.
Personelly (sic) apparent before me a justice of the Peace John Sydenrtrleker (sic) and made oath that he knew Daniel Coffman to have been a loyal man during the rebellion and consider him the same use (sic) to this time Signed and sworn to before me in my township of fort spring this june 11th 1866...D Coffman JPS.....
Second affidavit.
State of West Virginia Greenbrier Co. June 1866.
Personell (sic) apparent before me a justice of the Peace H H Brackman and made oath that he knew Daniel Coffman to have been a loyal man during the rebellion and he invest (sic) himself the same now and I believe what he said to me
Signed and sworn to befor (sic) me in my township of fort spring...D Coffman JPS.....
The Coffman family have lived in Greenbrier county since the Rev Isaac Coffman 1741 - 1824, buried in the Coffman Cemetery, Ronceverte, West Virginia.

4. Internal Revenue receipt 'for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer', paid by R. D. Burns of Lynchburg, Virginia, 9 December 1891 Engraved receipt in red and black, completed in manuscript.
Condition: Aged, small hole to lower left, upper right corner chipped. Condition Good. - 9 3/4in x 7 1/4in (24.5 x 18 cm)

General Definitions:
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Imperfections:
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• Title : Io. Antonius Maginus Pat. Mathemat. In Bonon. Gymn. Profess
  
• Date : 1632
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Ref:  80766
• Size: 17 1/2in x 11in (445mm x 280mm)

Description: 
This fine beautifully hand coloured original antique portrait of the Italian Cartographer Giovanni Antonio Magini was engraved by Henricus David in 1632 - date is engraved below portrait.

Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) was an Italian mathematician, cartographer and Professor of Astronomy in Bologna. He is responsible for publishing an edition ofPtolemy's Geographia in 1596 that contained 27 maps of the ancient world drawn from the text of Claude Ptolemy, along with 27 contemporary or modern maps. His maps were used by Blaeu in 1640. (Ref: Tooley; M&B)

General Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, red, brown.
General color appearance: - Fresh
Paper size: - 17 1/2in x 11in (445mm x 280mm)
Plate size: - 12n x 8 1/2in (305mm x 215mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light dis-colouration in top margin
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

• 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 : 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 : 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 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 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 : 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.

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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

• 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.

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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 : Terre De Diemen Ourlaga
• Size: 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1807
• Ref #:  93089

Description:
This exquisite, rare original hand coloured copper-plate engraved antique print of Tasmanian Ourlaga, visited by Baudin Expedition to Australia in Feb. 1802, was engraved by Barthélemy Roger, after Nicolas-Martin Petit (the offical artist on the ship Géographe) and was published by Francois Peron (1775 - 1810) in the 1st edition atlas of Nicolas Thomas Baudins expedition to Australia Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes

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Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

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

Background: 
The Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland, Australia. The expedition started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur as well as the geographer Pierre Faure.
The Baudin expedition departed Le Havre, France, on 19 October 1800. Because of delays in receiving his instructions and problems encountered in Isle de France (now Mauritius) they did not reach Cape Leeuwin on the south-west corner of Australia until May 1801. Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. They then sailed north, but the ships became separated and did not meet again until they reached Timor. On their journeys the Géographe and the Naturaliste surveyed large stretches of the north-western coast. The expedition was severely affected by dysentery and fever, but sailed from Timor on 13 November 1801, back down the north-west and west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmanias east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians.
The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in Naturaliste decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. En route, in April 1802, Hamelin explored the area of Western Port, Victoria, and gave names to places, a number of which have survived, for example, Ile des Français is now called French Island.
Meanwhile, Baudin in the Géographe continued westward, and in April 1802 encountered the British ship Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincents and Spencers Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago, the point reached by t Gulden Zeepaert in 1627 before heading for Port Jackson as well for supplies.
In late 1802 the expedition was at Port Jackson, where the government sold 60 casks of flour and 25 casks of salt meat to Baudin to resupply his two vessels. The supplies permitted Naturaliste to return to France and Géographe to continue her explorations of the Australian coast. Naturaliste took with her the Colonys staff surgeon, Mr. James Thomson, whom Governor Philip Gidley King had given permission to return to England.
Before resuming the voyage Baudin purchased a 30 ton schooner, which he named the Casuarina, a smaller vessel which could conduct close inshore survey work. He sent the larger Naturaliste under Hamelin back to France with all the specimens that had been collected by Baudin and his crew. As the voyage had progressed Louis de Freycinet, now a Lieutenant, had shown his talents as an officer and a hydrographer and so was given command of the Casuarina. The expedition then headed for Tasmania and conducted further charting of Bass Strait before sailing west, following the west coast northward, and after another visit to Timor, undertook further exploration along the north coast of Australia. Plagued by contrary winds, ill health, and because the quadrupeds and emus were very sick, it was decided on 7 July 1803 to return to France. On the return voyage, the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis on 16 September 1803. The expedition finally reached France on 24 March 1804.
The scientific expedition was considered a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered.

Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777 – 1804
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David. He avoided conscription into Napoleons armies, but wanting to travel, signed up with post Captain Nicholas Baudin on a voyage to the antipodes sponsored by the French government. Petit and fellow artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur were enlisted directly by Baudin (as 4th class gunners mates) while the two official artists were hired by the organisers of the expedition. Baudin set off in two lavishly equipped vessels, the Géographe and the Naturaliste on 19 October 1800. By the time the expedition reached Mauritius the official artists had quit. Petit and Lesueur took over their duties, but as neither was trained in scientific method or presentation, the value of their work was primarily aesthetic. The French were at this time developing a new scientific field - anthropology. The Society of the Observers of Man was founded in 1799 for this purpose. The study of Man formed part of the background for Petits sensitive drawings and paintings of the indigenous people of Van Diemens Land, Port Jackson and Western Australia. Lesueur focused on the depiction of animals. The expedition charted the coast of Western Australia and Van Diemens land but was plagued by scurvy. On 20 June 1802 the two ships limped into Port Jackson and stayed for five months to refit, during which time Petit completed a number of portraits of Sydney Indigenous people, including the two images of the Eora men, Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erren-gou-la-ga. Petit eventually returned to France in 1804. However, before he was well enough to complete the drawings from the expedition he was hurt in a street accident, and he died at the age of 28. Petits unfinished work was first published in 1807 in the Atlas of the Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes and as discrete prints.

Baudin, Nicolas Thomas 1754 – 1803
Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. Born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré on 17 February 1754 Baudin joined the merchant navy at the age of 15 and the French East India Company at the age of 20.
Baudin then joined the La Marine Royale (French Navy) in 1774 and served in the Caribbean as an officier bleu during the American War of Independence of 1775–1783.
In 1785 Baudin and his brother Alexandre were respectively masters of the St Remy and Caroline, taking Acadian settlers from Nantes to La Nouvelle Orléans. In New Orleans local merchants contracted him to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France (now Mauritius), which he did in Josephine (also called Pepita), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 1787. In the course of the voyage, Josephine had called at Cap‑Français in Haiti to make a contract to transport slaves there from Madagascar; while in Haiti he also encountered the Austrian botanist Franz Josef Maerter, who apparently informed him that another Austrian botanist, Franz Boos, was at the Cape of Good Hope awaiting a ship to take him to Mauritius. Josephine called at the Cape and took Boos on board. At Mauritius, Boos chartered Baudin to transport him and the collection of plant specimens he had gathered there and at the Cape back to Europe, which Baudin did, Josephine arriving at Trieste on 18 June 1788. The Imperial government in Vienna was contemplating organizing another natural-history expedition, to which Boos would be appointed, in which two ships would be sent to the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India, the Persian Gulf, Bengal, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, Tongking, Japan and China. Baudin had been given reason to hope that he would be given command of the ships of this expedition.
Later in 1788 Baudin sailed on a commercial voyage from Trieste to Canton in Jardiniere. He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste. From there, he sent Jardiniere under her second captain on a fur-trading venture to the north-west coast of America, but the ship foundered off Asuncion Island in the Marianas in late 1789.
Baudin made his way to Mauritius, where he purchased a replacement ship, Jardiniere II, but this vessel was wrecked in a cyclone that struck Port Louis on 15 December 1789. Baudin embarked on the Spanish Royal Philippines Company ship, Placeres, which sailed from Port Louis for Cadiz in August 1790. Placeres called at the Cape of Good Hope where it took on board the large number of plant and animal specimens collected in South Africa for the Imperial palace at Schönbrunn by Georg Scholl, the assistant of Franz Boos. Because of the poor condition of the ship, Placeres had to put in at the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, where Scholls collection of specimens was deposited.
Baudin proceeded to Martinique, from where he addressed an offer to the Imperial government in Vienna to conduct to Canton commissioners who would be empowered to negotiate with the Chinese merchants there a settlement of the debts incurred by the Imperial Asiatic Company, which would enable the company to renew its trade with China. On its return voyage from Canton, the proposed expedition would call at the Cape of Good Hope to pick up Scholl and the remainder of his natural-history collection for conveyance to Schönbrunn.
After returning to Vienna in September 1791, Baudin continued to press his case for an expedition under the Imperial flag to the Indian Ocean and China, and in January 1792 he was granted a commission of captain in the Imperial navy for this purpose. A ship, called Jardiniere, was acquired and the botanists Franz Bredemeyer and Joseph van der Schot appointed to the expedition. After delays caused by the outbreak of war between France and Austria (April 1792), Jardiniere departed from the Spanish port of Málaga on 1 October 1792. From the Cape of Good Hope Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland (Australia), but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.
From Bombay the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, where it gathered botanical and zoological collections. The expedition came to an abrupt end in June 1794 when Jardiniere went aground in a storm while attempting to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Baudin survived the wreck and made his way to the United States, from where he went to France. He managed to send Jardinieres cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.
In Paris, Baudin visited Antoine de Jussieu at the Museum National dHistoire Naturelle in March 1796 to suggest a botanical voyage to the Caribbean, during which he would recover the collection of specimens he had left in Trinidad. The Museum and the French government accepted the proposal, and Baudin was appointed commander of an expedition in the ship Belle Angélique, with four assigned botanists: René Maugé, André Pierre Ledru, Anselme Riedlé and Stanislas Levillain. Belle Angélique cleared Le Havre on 30 September 1796 for the Canary Islands, where the ship was condemned as unseaworthy. The expedition sailed from the Canaries in a replacement vessel, Fanny, and reached Trinidad in April 1797. The British, who had just captured the island from the Spanish in February 1797, refused to allow Baudin to recover the collection of natural-history specimens. Baudin took Fanny to St. Thomas and St. Croix, and then to Puerto Rico, specimens being collected in all three islands. At St Croix, Fanny was replaced by a newly purchased ship, renamed Belle Angelique. The expedition returned to France in June 1798 with a large collection of plants, birds and insects, which was incorporated into Napoleon Bonapartes triumphal procession celebrating his recent Italian victories.
On 24 July 1798, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, Baudin presented to the Assembly of Professors and Administrators of the National Museum of Natural History a plan for a hydrographic-survey expedition to the South Seas, which would include a search for fauna and flora that could be brought back for cultivation in France. The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited. The expedition would require two well-equipped ships, which would carry a team of astronomers, naturalists and scientific draughtsmen over whom Baudin as commander would have absolute authority. The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico. The expedition would then continue into the Pacific Ocean, including a visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands, and would be completed with a survey of the yet unexplored south-west coast of New Holland (Australia). After considering this extensive proposal, the French government decided to proceed with an expedition confined to a survey of western and southern New Holland (as Australia was called at the time).
In October 1800 Baudin was selected to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia (New Holland). He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. He reached Australia in May 1801, and would explore and map the western coast and a part of the little-known southern coast of the continent. The scientific expedition proved a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered. The French also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect.
In April 1802 Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies. In Sydney he bought a new ship — Casuarina — named after the wood it was made from. From there he sent home Naturaliste, which had on board all of the specimens that had been discovered by Baudin and his crew. He then headed for Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. Baudin then sailed for home, stopping at Mauritius.
According to recent researches by academics from the University of Adelaide, during Baudins expedition, François Péron, who had become the chief zoologist and intellectual leader of the mission, wrote a report for Napoleon on ways to invade and capture the British colony at Sydney Cove.
Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius on 16 September 1803, at the age of 49, apparently in the home of Madame Alexandrine Kerivel. Baudins exact resting place is not known, but the historian Auguste Toussaint believed that he was interred in the Kerivel family vault. However, the historian Edward Duyker likes to think that Baudin was buried in Le Cimetière de lOuest in the district of Port Louis just a few hundred metres from the explorers certain love: the sea.

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• Title : Terre De Diemen Bara-Ourou
• Size: 13in x 10in (330mm x 255mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1807
• Ref #:  93088

Description:
This exquisite, rare original copper-plate engraved antique print of Tasmanian Bara-Ourou, portrait of a young man 28-30 years of age, visited by Baudin Expedition to Australia in Feb. 1802, was engraved by Barthélemy Roger, after Nicolas-Martin Petit (the offical artist on the ship Géographe) and was published by Francois Peron (1775 - 1810) in the 1st edition atlas of Nicolas Thomas Baudins expedition to Australia Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes

Nicholas Martin Petit sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the expedition of the Géographe and the Naturaliste in late 1800. The scientific field of anthropology was in its infancy – the French had founded the Society of the Observers of Man in 1799. Having embarked as a fourth-class gunner’s mate, Petit, who had had some graphic arts training, became one of the expeditions two illustrators when the official artists quit. From June to November 1802, the expedition was delayed in Sydney while its two ships were repaired. During this time Petit completed portraits of people of the Cadigal, Dharawal, Gweagal, Kurringai and Darug language groups of the Sydney Harbour region. While the sitters names appear to be noted on the works, it is possible that the inscriptions merely reflect French misinterpretation of the Aborigines communications with them.
The portrait of Nourou-gal-derri is pictured advancing for battle.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

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

Background: 
The Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland, Australia. The expedition started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur as well as the geographer Pierre Faure.
The Baudin expedition departed Le Havre, France, on 19 October 1800. Because of delays in receiving his instructions and problems encountered in Isle de France (now Mauritius) they did not reach Cape Leeuwin on the south-west corner of Australia until May 1801. Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. They then sailed north, but the ships became separated and did not meet again until they reached Timor. On their journeys the Géographe and the Naturaliste surveyed large stretches of the north-western coast. The expedition was severely affected by dysentery and fever, but sailed from Timor on 13 November 1801, back down the north-west and west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmanias east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians.
The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in Naturaliste decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. En route, in April 1802, Hamelin explored the area of Western Port, Victoria, and gave names to places, a number of which have survived, for example, Ile des Français is now called French Island.
Meanwhile, Baudin in the Géographe continued westward, and in April 1802 encountered the British ship Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincents and Spencers Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago, the point reached by t Gulden Zeepaert in 1627 before heading for Port Jackson as well for supplies.
In late 1802 the expedition was at Port Jackson, where the government sold 60 casks of flour and 25 casks of salt meat to Baudin to resupply his two vessels. The supplies permitted Naturaliste to return to France and Géographe to continue her explorations of the Australian coast. Naturaliste took with her the Colonys staff surgeon, Mr. James Thomson, whom Governor Philip Gidley King had given permission to return to England.
Before resuming the voyage Baudin purchased a 30 ton schooner, which he named the Casuarina, a smaller vessel which could conduct close inshore survey work. He sent the larger Naturaliste under Hamelin back to France with all the specimens that had been collected by Baudin and his crew. As the voyage had progressed Louis de Freycinet, now a Lieutenant, had shown his talents as an officer and a hydrographer and so was given command of the Casuarina. The expedition then headed for Tasmania and conducted further charting of Bass Strait before sailing west, following the west coast northward, and after another visit to Timor, undertook further exploration along the north coast of Australia. Plagued by contrary winds, ill health, and because the quadrupeds and emus were very sick, it was decided on 7 July 1803 to return to France. On the return voyage, the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis on 16 September 1803. The expedition finally reached France on 24 March 1804.
The scientific expedition was considered a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered.

Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777 – 1804
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David. He avoided conscription into Napoleons armies, but wanting to travel, signed up with post Captain Nicholas Baudin on a voyage to the antipodes sponsored by the French government. Petit and fellow artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur were enlisted directly by Baudin (as 4th class gunners mates) while the two official artists were hired by the organisers of the expedition. Baudin set off in two lavishly equipped vessels, the Géographe and the Naturaliste on 19 October 1800. By the time the expedition reached Mauritius the official artists had quit. Petit and Lesueur took over their duties, but as neither was trained in scientific method or presentation, the value of their work was primarily aesthetic. The French were at this time developing a new scientific field - anthropology. The Society of the Observers of Man was founded in 1799 for this purpose. The study of Man formed part of the background for Petits sensitive drawings and paintings of the indigenous people of Van Diemens Land, Port Jackson and Western Australia. Lesueur focused on the depiction of animals. The expedition charted the coast of Western Australia and Van Diemens land but was plagued by scurvy. On 20 June 1802 the two ships limped into Port Jackson and stayed for five months to refit, during which time Petit completed a number of portraits of Sydney Indigenous people, including the two images of the Eora men, Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erren-gou-la-ga. Petit eventually returned to France in 1804. However, before he was well enough to complete the drawings from the expedition he was hurt in a street accident, and he died at the age of 28. Petits unfinished work was first published in 1807 in the Atlas of the Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes and as discrete prints.

Baudin, Nicolas Thomas 1754 – 1803
Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. Born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré on 17 February 1754 Baudin joined the merchant navy at the age of 15 and the French East India Company at the age of 20.
Baudin then joined the La Marine Royale (French Navy) in 1774 and served in the Caribbean as an officier bleu during the American War of Independence of 1775–1783.
In 1785 Baudin and his brother Alexandre were respectively masters of the St Remy and Caroline, taking Acadian settlers from Nantes to La Nouvelle Orléans. In New Orleans local merchants contracted him to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France (now Mauritius), which he did in Josephine (also called Pepita), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 1787. In the course of the voyage, Josephine had called at Cap‑Français in Haiti to make a contract to transport slaves there from Madagascar; while in Haiti he also encountered the Austrian botanist Franz Josef Maerter, who apparently informed him that another Austrian botanist, Franz Boos, was at the Cape of Good Hope awaiting a ship to take him to Mauritius. Josephine called at the Cape and took Boos on board. At Mauritius, Boos chartered Baudin to transport him and the collection of plant specimens he had gathered there and at the Cape back to Europe, which Baudin did, Josephine arriving at Trieste on 18 June 1788. The Imperial government in Vienna was contemplating organizing another natural-history expedition, to which Boos would be appointed, in which two ships would be sent to the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India, the Persian Gulf, Bengal, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, Tongking, Japan and China. Baudin had been given reason to hope that he would be given command of the ships of this expedition.
Later in 1788 Baudin sailed on a commercial voyage from Trieste to Canton in Jardiniere. He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste. From there, he sent Jardiniere under her second captain on a fur-trading venture to the north-west coast of America, but the ship foundered off Asuncion Island in the Marianas in late 1789.
Baudin made his way to Mauritius, where he purchased a replacement ship, Jardiniere II, but this vessel was wrecked in a cyclone that struck Port Louis on 15 December 1789. Baudin embarked on the Spanish Royal Philippines Company ship, Placeres, which sailed from Port Louis for Cadiz in August 1790. Placeres called at the Cape of Good Hope where it took on board the large number of plant and animal specimens collected in South Africa for the Imperial palace at Schönbrunn by Georg Scholl, the assistant of Franz Boos. Because of the poor condition of the ship, Placeres had to put in at the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, where Scholls collection of specimens was deposited.
Baudin proceeded to Martinique, from where he addressed an offer to the Imperial government in Vienna to conduct to Canton commissioners who would be empowered to negotiate with the Chinese merchants there a settlement of the debts incurred by the Imperial Asiatic Company, which would enable the company to renew its trade with China. On its return voyage from Canton, the proposed expedition would call at the Cape of Good Hope to pick up Scholl and the remainder of his natural-history collection for conveyance to Schönbrunn.
After returning to Vienna in September 1791, Baudin continued to press his case for an expedition under the Imperial flag to the Indian Ocean and China, and in January 1792 he was granted a commission of captain in the Imperial navy for this purpose. A ship, called Jardiniere, was acquired and the botanists Franz Bredemeyer and Joseph van der Schot appointed to the expedition. After delays caused by the outbreak of war between France and Austria (April 1792), Jardiniere departed from the Spanish port of Málaga on 1 October 1792. From the Cape of Good Hope Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland (Australia), but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.
From Bombay the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, where it gathered botanical and zoological collections. The expedition came to an abrupt end in June 1794 when Jardiniere went aground in a storm while attempting to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Baudin survived the wreck and made his way to the United States, from where he went to France. He managed to send Jardinieres cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.
In Paris, Baudin visited Antoine de Jussieu at the Museum National dHistoire Naturelle in March 1796 to suggest a botanical voyage to the Caribbean, during which he would recover the collection of specimens he had left in Trinidad. The Museum and the French government accepted the proposal, and Baudin was appointed commander of an expedition in the ship Belle Angélique, with four assigned botanists: René Maugé, André Pierre Ledru, Anselme Riedlé and Stanislas Levillain. Belle Angélique cleared Le Havre on 30 September 1796 for the Canary Islands, where the ship was condemned as unseaworthy. The expedition sailed from the Canaries in a replacement vessel, Fanny, and reached Trinidad in April 1797. The British, who had just captured the island from the Spanish in February 1797, refused to allow Baudin to recover the collection of natural-history specimens. Baudin took Fanny to St. Thomas and St. Croix, and then to Puerto Rico, specimens being collected in all three islands. At St Croix, Fanny was replaced by a newly purchased ship, renamed Belle Angelique. The expedition returned to France in June 1798 with a large collection of plants, birds and insects, which was incorporated into Napoleon Bonapartes triumphal procession celebrating his recent Italian victories.
On 24 July 1798, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, Baudin presented to the Assembly of Professors and Administrators of the National Museum of Natural History a plan for a hydrographic-survey expedition to the South Seas, which would include a search for fauna and flora that could be brought back for cultivation in France. The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited. The expedition would require two well-equipped ships, which would carry a team of astronomers, naturalists and scientific draughtsmen over whom Baudin as commander would have absolute authority. The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico. The expedition would then continue into the Pacific Ocean, including a visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands, and would be completed with a survey of the yet unexplored south-west coast of New Holland (Australia). After considering this extensive proposal, the French government decided to proceed with an expedition confined to a survey of western and southern New Holland (as Australia was called at the time).
In October 1800 Baudin was selected to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia (New Holland). He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. He reached Australia in May 1801, and would explore and map the western coast and a part of the little-known southern coast of the continent. The scientific expedition proved a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered. The French also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect.
In April 1802 Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies. In Sydney he bought a new ship — Casuarina — named after the wood it was made from. From there he sent home Naturaliste, which had on board all of the specimens that had been discovered by Baudin and his crew. He then headed for Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. Baudin then sailed for home, stopping at Mauritius.
According to recent researches by academics from the University of Adelaide, during Baudins expedition, François Péron, who had become the chief zoologist and intellectual leader of the mission, wrote a report for Napoleon on ways to invade and capture the British colony at Sydney Cove.
Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius on 16 September 1803, at the age of 49, apparently in the home of Madame Alexandrine Kerivel. Baudins exact resting place is not known, but the historian Auguste Toussaint believed that he was interred in the Kerivel family vault. However, the historian Edward Duyker likes to think that Baudin was buried in Le Cimetière de lOuest in the district of Port Louis just a few hundred metres from the explorers certain love: the sea.

Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request.

• Title : Terre De Diemen Grou Agara
• Size: 13in x 10in (330mm x 255mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1807
• Ref #:  93086

Description:
This exquisite, rare original copper-plate engraved antique print of Tasmanian Aboriginal Grou Agara, visited by the Baudin Expedition to Australia in Feb. 1802, was engraved by Barthélemy Roger, after Nicolas-Martin Petit (the offical artist on the ship Géographe) and was published by Francois Peron (1775 - 1810) in the 1st edition atlas of Nicolas Thomas Baudins expedition to Australia Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes

Nicholas Martin Petit sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the expedition of the Géographe and the Naturaliste in late 1800. The scientific field of anthropology was in its infancy – the French had founded the Society of the Observers of Man in 1799. Having embarked as a fourth-class gunner’s mate, Petit, who had had some graphic arts training, became one of the expeditions two illustrators when the official artists quit. From June to November 1802, the expedition was delayed in Sydney while its two ships were repaired. During this time Petit completed portraits of people of the Cadigal, Dharawal, Gweagal, Kurringai and Darug language groups of the Sydney Harbour region. While the sitters names appear to be noted on the works, it is possible that the inscriptions merely reflect French misinterpretation of the Aborigines communications with them.
The portrait of Nourou-gal-derri is pictured advancing for battle.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

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

Background: 
The Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland, Australia. The expedition started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur as well as the geographer Pierre Faure.
The Baudin expedition departed Le Havre, France, on 19 October 1800. Because of delays in receiving his instructions and problems encountered in Isle de France (now Mauritius) they did not reach Cape Leeuwin on the south-west corner of Australia until May 1801. Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. They then sailed north, but the ships became separated and did not meet again until they reached Timor. On their journeys the Géographe and the Naturaliste surveyed large stretches of the north-western coast. The expedition was severely affected by dysentery and fever, but sailed from Timor on 13 November 1801, back down the north-west and west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmanias east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians.
The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in Naturaliste decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. En route, in April 1802, Hamelin explored the area of Western Port, Victoria, and gave names to places, a number of which have survived, for example, Ile des Français is now called French Island.
Meanwhile, Baudin in the Géographe continued westward, and in April 1802 encountered the British ship Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincents and Spencers Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago, the point reached by t Gulden Zeepaert in 1627 before heading for Port Jackson as well for supplies.
In late 1802 the expedition was at Port Jackson, where the government sold 60 casks of flour and 25 casks of salt meat to Baudin to resupply his two vessels. The supplies permitted Naturaliste to return to France and Géographe to continue her explorations of the Australian coast. Naturaliste took with her the Colonys staff surgeon, Mr. James Thomson, whom Governor Philip Gidley King had given permission to return to England.
Before resuming the voyage Baudin purchased a 30 ton schooner, which he named the Casuarina, a smaller vessel which could conduct close inshore survey work. He sent the larger Naturaliste under Hamelin back to France with all the specimens that had been collected by Baudin and his crew. As the voyage had progressed Louis de Freycinet, now a Lieutenant, had shown his talents as an officer and a hydrographer and so was given command of the Casuarina. The expedition then headed for Tasmania and conducted further charting of Bass Strait before sailing west, following the west coast northward, and after another visit to Timor, undertook further exploration along the north coast of Australia. Plagued by contrary winds, ill health, and because the quadrupeds and emus were very sick, it was decided on 7 July 1803 to return to France. On the return voyage, the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis on 16 September 1803. The expedition finally reached France on 24 March 1804.
The scientific expedition was considered a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered.

Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777 – 1804
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David. He avoided conscription into Napoleons armies, but wanting to travel, signed up with post Captain Nicholas Baudin on a voyage to the antipodes sponsored by the French government. Petit and fellow artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur were enlisted directly by Baudin (as 4th class gunners mates) while the two official artists were hired by the organisers of the expedition. Baudin set off in two lavishly equipped vessels, the Géographe and the Naturaliste on 19 October 1800. By the time the expedition reached Mauritius the official artists had quit. Petit and Lesueur took over their duties, but as neither was trained in scientific method or presentation, the value of their work was primarily aesthetic. The French were at this time developing a new scientific field - anthropology. The Society of the Observers of Man was founded in 1799 for this purpose. The study of Man formed part of the background for Petits sensitive drawings and paintings of the indigenous people of Van Diemens Land, Port Jackson and Western Australia. Lesueur focused on the depiction of animals. The expedition charted the coast of Western Australia and Van Diemens land but was plagued by scurvy. On 20 June 1802 the two ships limped into Port Jackson and stayed for five months to refit, during which time Petit completed a number of portraits of Sydney Indigenous people, including the two images of the Eora men, Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erren-gou-la-ga. Petit eventually returned to France in 1804. However, before he was well enough to complete the drawings from the expedition he was hurt in a street accident, and he died at the age of 28. Petits unfinished work was first published in 1807 in the Atlas of the Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes and as discrete prints.

Baudin, Nicolas Thomas 1754 – 1803
Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. Born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré on 17 February 1754 Baudin joined the merchant navy at the age of 15 and the French East India Company at the age of 20.
Baudin then joined the La Marine Royale (French Navy) in 1774 and served in the Caribbean as an officier bleu during the American War of Independence of 1775–1783.
In 1785 Baudin and his brother Alexandre were respectively masters of the St Remy and Caroline, taking Acadian settlers from Nantes to La Nouvelle Orléans. In New Orleans local merchants contracted him to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France (now Mauritius), which he did in Josephine (also called Pepita), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 1787. In the course of the voyage, Josephine had called at Cap‑Français in Haiti to make a contract to transport slaves there from Madagascar; while in Haiti he also encountered the Austrian botanist Franz Josef Maerter, who apparently informed him that another Austrian botanist, Franz Boos, was at the Cape of Good Hope awaiting a ship to take him to Mauritius. Josephine called at the Cape and took Boos on board. At Mauritius, Boos chartered Baudin to transport him and the collection of plant specimens he had gathered there and at the Cape back to Europe, which Baudin did, Josephine arriving at Trieste on 18 June 1788. The Imperial government in Vienna was contemplating organizing another natural-history expedition, to which Boos would be appointed, in which two ships would be sent to the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India, the Persian Gulf, Bengal, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, Tongking, Japan and China. Baudin had been given reason to hope that he would be given command of the ships of this expedition.
Later in 1788 Baudin sailed on a commercial voyage from Trieste to Canton in Jardiniere. He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste. From there, he sent Jardiniere under her second captain on a fur-trading venture to the north-west coast of America, but the ship foundered off Asuncion Island in the Marianas in late 1789.
Baudin made his way to Mauritius, where he purchased a replacement ship, Jardiniere II, but this vessel was wrecked in a cyclone that struck Port Louis on 15 December 1789. Baudin embarked on the Spanish Royal Philippines Company ship, Placeres, which sailed from Port Louis for Cadiz in August 1790. Placeres called at the Cape of Good Hope where it took on board the large number of plant and animal specimens collected in South Africa for the Imperial palace at Schönbrunn by Georg Scholl, the assistant of Franz Boos. Because of the poor condition of the ship, Placeres had to put in at the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, where Scholls collection of specimens was deposited.
Baudin proceeded to Martinique, from where he addressed an offer to the Imperial government in Vienna to conduct to Canton commissioners who would be empowered to negotiate with the Chinese merchants there a settlement of the debts incurred by the Imperial Asiatic Company, which would enable the company to renew its trade with China. On its return voyage from Canton, the proposed expedition would call at the Cape of Good Hope to pick up Scholl and the remainder of his natural-history collection for conveyance to Schönbrunn.
After returning to Vienna in September 1791, Baudin continued to press his case for an expedition under the Imperial flag to the Indian Ocean and China, and in January 1792 he was granted a commission of captain in the Imperial navy for this purpose. A ship, called Jardiniere, was acquired and the botanists Franz Bredemeyer and Joseph van der Schot appointed to the expedition. After delays caused by the outbreak of war between France and Austria (April 1792), Jardiniere departed from the Spanish port of Málaga on 1 October 1792. From the Cape of Good Hope Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland (Australia), but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.
From Bombay the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, where it gathered botanical and zoological collections. The expedition came to an abrupt end in June 1794 when Jardiniere went aground in a storm while attempting to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Baudin survived the wreck and made his way to the United States, from where he went to France. He managed to send Jardinieres cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.
In Paris, Baudin visited Antoine de Jussieu at the Museum National dHistoire Naturelle in March 1796 to suggest a botanical voyage to the Caribbean, during which he would recover the collection of specimens he had left in Trinidad. The Museum and the French government accepted the proposal, and Baudin was appointed commander of an expedition in the ship Belle Angélique, with four assigned botanists: René Maugé, André Pierre Ledru, Anselme Riedlé and Stanislas Levillain. Belle Angélique cleared Le Havre on 30 September 1796 for the Canary Islands, where the ship was condemned as unseaworthy. The expedition sailed from the Canaries in a replacement vessel, Fanny, and reached Trinidad in April 1797. The British, who had just captured the island from the Spanish in February 1797, refused to allow Baudin to recover the collection of natural-history specimens. Baudin took Fanny to St. Thomas and St. Croix, and then to Puerto Rico, specimens being collected in all three islands. At St Croix, Fanny was replaced by a newly purchased ship, renamed Belle Angelique. The expedition returned to France in June 1798 with a large collection of plants, birds and insects, which was incorporated into Napoleon Bonapartes triumphal procession celebrating his recent Italian victories.
On 24 July 1798, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, Baudin presented to the Assembly of Professors and Administrators of the National Museum of Natural History a plan for a hydrographic-survey expedition to the South Seas, which would include a search for fauna and flora that could be brought back for cultivation in France. The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited. The expedition would require two well-equipped ships, which would carry a team of astronomers, naturalists and scientific draughtsmen over whom Baudin as commander would have absolute authority. The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico. The expedition would then continue into the Pacific Ocean, including a visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands, and would be completed with a survey of the yet unexplored south-west coast of New Holland (Australia). After considering this extensive proposal, the French government decided to proceed with an expedition confined to a survey of western and southern New Holland (as Australia was called at the time).
In October 1800 Baudin was selected to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia (New Holland). He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. He reached Australia in May 1801, and would explore and map the western coast and a part of the little-known southern coast of the continent. The scientific expedition proved a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered. The French also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect.
In April 1802 Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies. In Sydney he bought a new ship — Casuarina — named after the wood it was made from. From there he sent home Naturaliste, which had on board all of the specimens that had been discovered by Baudin and his crew. He then headed for Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. Baudin then sailed for home, stopping at Mauritius.
According to recent researches by academics from the University of Adelaide, during Baudins expedition, François Péron, who had become the chief zoologist and intellectual leader of the mission, wrote a report for Napoleon on ways to invade and capture the British colony at Sydney Cove.
Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius on 16 September 1803, at the age of 49, apparently in the home of Madame Alexandrine Kerivel. Baudins exact resting place is not known, but the historian Auguste Toussaint believed that he was interred in the Kerivel family vault. However, the historian Edward Duyker likes to think that Baudin was buried in Le Cimetière de lOuest in the district of Port Louis just a few hundred metres from the explorers certain love: the sea.

Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request.

• Title : Terre De Diemen Arra Maida
• Size: 13in x 10in (330mm x 255mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1807
• Ref #:  93085

Description:
This exquisite, rare original copper-plate engraved antique print of Tasmanian Aboriginal Arra Maida, visited by the Baudin Expedition to Australia in Feb. 1802, was engraved by Barthélemy Roger, after Nicolas-Martin Petit (the offical artist on the ship Géographe) and was published by Francois Peron (1775 - 1810) in the 1st edition atlas of Nicolas Thomas Baudins expedition to Australia Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes

Nicholas Martin Petit sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the expedition of the Géographe and the Naturaliste in late 1800. The scientific field of anthropology was in its infancy – the French had founded the Society of the Observers of Man in 1799. Having embarked as a fourth-class gunner’s mate, Petit, who had had some graphic arts training, became one of the expeditions two illustrators when the official artists quit. From June to November 1802, the expedition was delayed in Sydney while its two ships were repaired. During this time Petit completed portraits of people of the Cadigal, Dharawal, Gweagal, Kurringai and Darug language groups of the Sydney Harbour region. While the sitters names appear to be noted on the works, it is possible that the inscriptions merely reflect French misinterpretation of the Aborigines communications with them.
The portrait of Nourou-gal-derri is pictured advancing for battle.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

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

Background: 
The Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland, Australia. The expedition started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur as well as the geographer Pierre Faure.
The Baudin expedition departed Le Havre, France, on 19 October 1800. Because of delays in receiving his instructions and problems encountered in Isle de France (now Mauritius) they did not reach Cape Leeuwin on the south-west corner of Australia until May 1801. Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. They then sailed north, but the ships became separated and did not meet again until they reached Timor. On their journeys the Géographe and the Naturaliste surveyed large stretches of the north-western coast. The expedition was severely affected by dysentery and fever, but sailed from Timor on 13 November 1801, back down the north-west and west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmanias east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians.
The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in Naturaliste decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. En route, in April 1802, Hamelin explored the area of Western Port, Victoria, and gave names to places, a number of which have survived, for example, Ile des Français is now called French Island.
Meanwhile, Baudin in the Géographe continued westward, and in April 1802 encountered the British ship Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincents and Spencers Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago, the point reached by t Gulden Zeepaert in 1627 before heading for Port Jackson as well for supplies.
In late 1802 the expedition was at Port Jackson, where the government sold 60 casks of flour and 25 casks of salt meat to Baudin to resupply his two vessels. The supplies permitted Naturaliste to return to France and Géographe to continue her explorations of the Australian coast. Naturaliste took with her the Colonys staff surgeon, Mr. James Thomson, whom Governor Philip Gidley King had given permission to return to England.
Before resuming the voyage Baudin purchased a 30 ton schooner, which he named the Casuarina, a smaller vessel which could conduct close inshore survey work. He sent the larger Naturaliste under Hamelin back to France with all the specimens that had been collected by Baudin and his crew. As the voyage had progressed Louis de Freycinet, now a Lieutenant, had shown his talents as an officer and a hydrographer and so was given command of the Casuarina. The expedition then headed for Tasmania and conducted further charting of Bass Strait before sailing west, following the west coast northward, and after another visit to Timor, undertook further exploration along the north coast of Australia. Plagued by contrary winds, ill health, and because the quadrupeds and emus were very sick, it was decided on 7 July 1803 to return to France. On the return voyage, the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis on 16 September 1803. The expedition finally reached France on 24 March 1804.
The scientific expedition was considered a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered.

Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777 – 1804
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David. He avoided conscription into Napoleons armies, but wanting to travel, signed up with post Captain Nicholas Baudin on a voyage to the antipodes sponsored by the French government. Petit and fellow artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur were enlisted directly by Baudin (as 4th class gunners mates) while the two official artists were hired by the organisers of the expedition. Baudin set off in two lavishly equipped vessels, the Géographe and the Naturaliste on 19 October 1800. By the time the expedition reached Mauritius the official artists had quit. Petit and Lesueur took over their duties, but as neither was trained in scientific method or presentation, the value of their work was primarily aesthetic. The French were at this time developing a new scientific field - anthropology. The Society of the Observers of Man was founded in 1799 for this purpose. The study of Man formed part of the background for Petits sensitive drawings and paintings of the indigenous people of Van Diemens Land, Port Jackson and Western Australia. Lesueur focused on the depiction of animals. The expedition charted the coast of Western Australia and Van Diemens land but was plagued by scurvy. On 20 June 1802 the two ships limped into Port Jackson and stayed for five months to refit, during which time Petit completed a number of portraits of Sydney Indigenous people, including the two images of the Eora men, Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erren-gou-la-ga. Petit eventually returned to France in 1804. However, before he was well enough to complete the drawings from the expedition he was hurt in a street accident, and he died at the age of 28. Petits unfinished work was first published in 1807 in the Atlas of the Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes and as discrete prints.

Baudin, Nicolas Thomas 1754 – 1803
Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. Born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré on 17 February 1754 Baudin joined the merchant navy at the age of 15 and the French East India Company at the age of 20.
Baudin then joined the La Marine Royale (French Navy) in 1774 and served in the Caribbean as an officier bleu during the American War of Independence of 1775–1783.
In 1785 Baudin and his brother Alexandre were respectively masters of the St Remy and Caroline, taking Acadian settlers from Nantes to La Nouvelle Orléans. In New Orleans local merchants contracted him to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France (now Mauritius), which he did in Josephine (also called Pepita), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 1787. In the course of the voyage, Josephine had called at Cap‑Français in Haiti to make a contract to transport slaves there from Madagascar; while in Haiti he also encountered the Austrian botanist Franz Josef Maerter, who apparently informed him that another Austrian botanist, Franz Boos, was at the Cape of Good Hope awaiting a ship to take him to Mauritius. Josephine called at the Cape and took Boos on board. At Mauritius, Boos chartered Baudin to transport him and the collection of plant specimens he had gathered there and at the Cape back to Europe, which Baudin did, Josephine arriving at Trieste on 18 June 1788. The Imperial government in Vienna was contemplating organizing another natural-history expedition, to which Boos would be appointed, in which two ships would be sent to the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India, the Persian Gulf, Bengal, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, Tongking, Japan and China. Baudin had been given reason to hope that he would be given command of the ships of this expedition.
Later in 1788 Baudin sailed on a commercial voyage from Trieste to Canton in Jardiniere. He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste. From there, he sent Jardiniere under her second captain on a fur-trading venture to the north-west coast of America, but the ship foundered off Asuncion Island in the Marianas in late 1789.
Baudin made his way to Mauritius, where he purchased a replacement ship, Jardiniere II, but this vessel was wrecked in a cyclone that struck Port Louis on 15 December 1789. Baudin embarked on the Spanish Royal Philippines Company ship, Placeres, which sailed from Port Louis for Cadiz in August 1790. Placeres called at the Cape of Good Hope where it took on board the large number of plant and animal specimens collected in South Africa for the Imperial palace at Schönbrunn by Georg Scholl, the assistant of Franz Boos. Because of the poor condition of the ship, Placeres had to put in at the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, where Scholls collection of specimens was deposited.
Baudin proceeded to Martinique, from where he addressed an offer to the Imperial government in Vienna to conduct to Canton commissioners who would be empowered to negotiate with the Chinese merchants there a settlement of the debts incurred by the Imperial Asiatic Company, which would enable the company to renew its trade with China. On its return voyage from Canton, the proposed expedition would call at the Cape of Good Hope to pick up Scholl and the remainder of his natural-history collection for conveyance to Schönbrunn.
After returning to Vienna in September 1791, Baudin continued to press his case for an expedition under the Imperial flag to the Indian Ocean and China, and in January 1792 he was granted a commission of captain in the Imperial navy for this purpose. A ship, called Jardiniere, was acquired and the botanists Franz Bredemeyer and Joseph van der Schot appointed to the expedition. After delays caused by the outbreak of war between France and Austria (April 1792), Jardiniere departed from the Spanish port of Málaga on 1 October 1792. From the Cape of Good Hope Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland (Australia), but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.
From Bombay the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, where it gathered botanical and zoological collections. The expedition came to an abrupt end in June 1794 when Jardiniere went aground in a storm while attempting to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Baudin survived the wreck and made his way to the United States, from where he went to France. He managed to send Jardinieres cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.
In Paris, Baudin visited Antoine de Jussieu at the Museum National dHistoire Naturelle in March 1796 to suggest a botanical voyage to the Caribbean, during which he would recover the collection of specimens he had left in Trinidad. The Museum and the French government accepted the proposal, and Baudin was appointed commander of an expedition in the ship Belle Angélique, with four assigned botanists: René Maugé, André Pierre Ledru, Anselme Riedlé and Stanislas Levillain. Belle Angélique cleared Le Havre on 30 September 1796 for the Canary Islands, where the ship was condemned as unseaworthy. The expedition sailed from the Canaries in a replacement vessel, Fanny, and reached Trinidad in April 1797. The British, who had just captured the island from the Spanish in February 1797, refused to allow Baudin to recover the collection of natural-history specimens. Baudin took Fanny to St. Thomas and St. Croix, and then to Puerto Rico, specimens being collected in all three islands. At St Croix, Fanny was replaced by a newly purchased ship, renamed Belle Angelique. The expedition returned to France in June 1798 with a large collection of plants, birds and insects, which was incorporated into Napoleon Bonapartes triumphal procession celebrating his recent Italian victories.
On 24 July 1798, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, Baudin presented to the Assembly of Professors and Administrators of the National Museum of Natural History a plan for a hydrographic-survey expedition to the South Seas, which would include a search for fauna and flora that could be brought back for cultivation in France. The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited. The expedition would require two well-equipped ships, which would carry a team of astronomers, naturalists and scientific draughtsmen over whom Baudin as commander would have absolute authority. The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico. The expedition would then continue into the Pacific Ocean, including a visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands, and would be completed with a survey of the yet unexplored south-west coast of New Holland (Australia). After considering this extensive proposal, the French government decided to proceed with an expedition confined to a survey of western and southern New Holland (as Australia was called at the time).
In October 1800 Baudin was selected to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia (New Holland). He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. He reached Australia in May 1801, and would explore and map the western coast and a part of the little-known southern coast of the continent. The scientific expedition proved a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered. The French also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect.
In April 1802 Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies. In Sydney he bought a new ship — Casuarina — named after the wood it was made from. From there he sent home Naturaliste, which had on board all of the specimens that had been discovered by Baudin and his crew. He then headed for Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. Baudin then sailed for home, stopping at Mauritius.
According to recent researches by academics from the University of Adelaide, during Baudins expedition, François Péron, who had become the chief zoologist and intellectual leader of the mission, wrote a report for Napoleon on ways to invade and capture the British colony at Sydney Cove.
Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius on 16 September 1803, at the age of 49, apparently in the home of Madame Alexandrine Kerivel. Baudins exact resting place is not known, but the historian Auguste Toussaint believed that he was interred in the Kerivel family vault. However, the historian Edward Duyker likes to think that Baudin was buried in Le Cimetière de lOuest in the district of Port Louis just a few hundred metres from the explorers certain love: the sea.

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• Title : Nouvelle-Hollande. Gnoung-a-gnoung-a Mour-re-mour-ga (dit Collins)
• Size: 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1807
• Ref #:  91239

Description:
This exquisite, rare original copper-plate engraved antique print, of the brother in law of the famous Port Jackson Aborginal leader Bennelong, Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan, or Anganángan, was engraved by Barthélemy Roger, after the 1802 by Nicolas-Martin Petit, was published by Francois Peron (1775 - 1810) in the 1st edition atlas of Nicolas Thomas Baudins expedition to Australia Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes

Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan
It is over 200 years since the death of an adventurous young Aboriginal Australian who crossed the vast Pacific Ocean to North America and returned to Sydney. From the deck of an English storeship he glimpsed many strange places, visiting Norfolk Island, Hawaii, Nootka Sound (now Vancouver, Canada) and the Spanish colonies of San Francisco, Santa Barbara and San Diego on the Californian coast.
The voyager was Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan, whose wife Warreeweer was the younger sister of the Wangal leader Woollarawarre Bennelong, at that time being feted in London society. The distance Gnung-a Gnung-a traversed was some 16,000 miles (25,750 kilometres) as the crow flies, but much further in a sailing ship driven by unpredictable winds.
On the first day he ventured into the convict settlement at Sydney Cove, in November 1790, Gnung-a Gnung-a adopted the name Collins from Acting Judge Advocate David Collins, who often mentions him in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, published in London in 1798.
It was the idea of Major Francis Grose, acting governor of New South Wales after the departure of Captain Arthur Phillip in 1792, to embark a native of this country on HM storeship Daedalus for the purpose of acquiring our language, wrote David Collins. The 350-ton capacity vessel was ordered to resupply provisions for the expedition to the north-west coast of North America commanded by Captain George Vancouver (1757–1798). In the navy ships HMS Discovery and HMS Chatham, Captain Vancouver was to complete the survey made by Captain James Cook.
Voyage to America
HMS Daedalus sailed from Port Jackson on 1 July 1793, passing west of the Society Islands (French Polynesia) to Owhyee (Hawaii). The commander, Lieutenant James Hanson, missed a rendezvous with Vancouvers ships at Nootka Sound on 8 October, but anchored with the two survey ships off San Francisco Bay on 21 October. The three British ships followed the coast of todays California to San Diego, leaving on 9 December 1793 and arriving at Hilo in Hawaii on 8 January 1794.
The Hawaiian King Kamehameha, who warmly welcomed Vancouver, was so impressed by the good-natured, handsome Aboriginal man on the expedition that he wanted to buy him, offering in exchange canoes, weapons and curiosities.
Gnung-a Gnung-a got on well with everyone on Daedalus and Hanson was pleased by his good nature and his willingness to do whatever was asked of him. During his month in Hawaii, he often went ashore with his shipmates. Wherever he went he readily adopted the manners of those around him, Hanson later told Collins, who remarked, with ironic humour, that...........
when at Owhyee, having discovered that favours from the females were to be procured at the easy exchange for a looking-glass, a nail, or a knife, he was not backward in presenting his little offering, and was as well received as any of the white people in the ship. It was noticed too that he always displayed some taste in selecting the object of his attentions.......
Return to Sydney
Home in Sydney Town, Gnung-a Gnung-a fought and wounded a very fine young fellow called Wyatt, who had taken up with his wife during his absence and Warreeweer became the prize of the victor.
During a ritual revenge combat in December 1795, Pemulwuy, leader of the Georges River Bidjigal near Botany Bay, launched a spear at Gnung-a Gnung-a that remained fixed in his back. The English surgeons could not extract the spear and thought he was unlikely to recover. Gnung-a Gnung-a, however, left the hospital and walked about for several weeks with the spear protruding from his back. At last, wrote Collins in a footnote..........
we heard that his wife, or one of his male friends, had fixed their teeth in the wood and drawn it out after which he recovered, and was able again to go into the field. His wife War-re-weer showed by an uncommon attention her great attachment to him.......
Before this unexpected recovery, David Collins wrote a brief appreciation of his namesake:
He was much esteemed by every white man who knew him, as well on account of his personal bravery, of which we had witnessed many distinguishing proofs, as on account of a gentleness of manners which strongly marked his disposition, and shaded off the harsher lines that his uncivilised life now and then forced into the fore-ground.
While in Sydney with a scientific expedition commanded by Nicholas Baudin in 1802, the young French artist Nicolas-Martin Petit met Gnung-a Gnung-a and sketched a striking portrait that he captioned Gnoung-a gnoung-a, mour-re-mour-ga (dit Collins)
A report in the Sydney Gazette of Sunday 15 January 1809 said that the body of Collins (Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan) had been found beside the Dry Store, site of the present Sirius Park in Bridge Street, Sydney. The newspaper said he had been known for the docility of his temper, and the high estimation in which he was universally held among the native tribes.
On the night of Thursday 12 January 1809, Gnung-a Gnung-as children, others he had adopted, and his brother Old Phillip, faced a salvo of spears in the ritual ordeal that followed death in Aboriginal society. The date of his death was not recorded, but it was customary to keep an overnight vigil over a dead body before burial and the subsequent revenge combat, so it was probably 11 January.
Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan is one of many Aboriginal men and women who sailed from Sydney in English ships and played a significant role in Australias early maritime history.

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Background: 
The Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland, Australia. The expedition started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur as well as the geographer Pierre Faure.
The Baudin expedition departed Le Havre, France, on 19 October 1800. Because of delays in receiving his instructions and problems encountered in Isle de France (now Mauritius) they did not reach Cape Leeuwin on the south-west corner of Australia until May 1801. Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. They then sailed north, but the ships became separated and did not meet again until they reached Timor. On their journeys the Géographe and the Naturaliste surveyed large stretches of the north-western coast. The expedition was severely affected by dysentery and fever, but sailed from Timor on 13 November 1801, back down the north-west and west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmanias east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians.
The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in Naturaliste decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. En route, in April 1802, Hamelin explored the area of Western Port, Victoria, and gave names to places, a number of which have survived, for example, Ile des Français is now called French Island.
Meanwhile, Baudin in the Géographe continued westward, and in April 1802 encountered the British ship Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincents and Spencers Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago, the point reached by t Gulden Zeepaert in 1627 before heading for Port Jackson as well for supplies.
In late 1802 the expedition was at Port Jackson, where the government sold 60 casks of flour and 25 casks of salt meat to Baudin to resupply his two vessels. The supplies permitted Naturaliste to return to France and Géographe to continue her explorations of the Australian coast. Naturaliste took with her the Colonys staff surgeon, Mr. James Thomson, whom Governor Philip Gidley King had given permission to return to England.
Before resuming the voyage Baudin purchased a 30 ton schooner, which he named the Casuarina, a smaller vessel which could conduct close inshore survey work. He sent the larger Naturaliste under Hamelin back to France with all the specimens that had been collected by Baudin and his crew. As the voyage had progressed Louis de Freycinet, now a Lieutenant, had shown his talents as an officer and a hydrographer and so was given command of the Casuarina. The expedition then headed for Tasmania and conducted further charting of Bass Strait before sailing west, following the west coast northward, and after another visit to Timor, undertook further exploration along the north coast of Australia. Plagued by contrary winds, ill health, and because the quadrupeds and emus were very sick, it was decided on 7 July 1803 to return to France. On the return voyage, the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis on 16 September 1803. The expedition finally reached France on 24 March 1804.
The scientific expedition was considered a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered.

Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777 – 1804
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David. He avoided conscription into Napoleons armies, but wanting to travel, signed up with post Captain Nicholas Baudin on a voyage to the antipodes sponsored by the French government. Petit and fellow artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur were enlisted directly by Baudin (as 4th class gunners mates) while the two official artists were hired by the organisers of the expedition. Baudin set off in two lavishly equipped vessels, the Géographe and the Naturaliste on 19 October 1800. By the time the expedition reached Mauritius the official artists had quit. Petit and Lesueur took over their duties, but as neither was trained in scientific method or presentation, the value of their work was primarily aesthetic. The French were at this time developing a new scientific field - anthropology. The Society of the Observers of Man was founded in 1799 for this purpose. The study of Man formed part of the background for Petits sensitive drawings and paintings of the indigenous people of Van Diemens Land, Port Jackson and Western Australia. Lesueur focused on the depiction of animals. The expedition charted the coast of Western Australia and Van Diemens land but was plagued by scurvy. On 20 June 1802 the two ships limped into Port Jackson and stayed for five months to refit, during which time Petit completed a number of portraits of Sydney Indigenous people, including the two images of the Eora men, Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erren-gou-la-ga. Petit eventually returned to France in 1804. However, before he was well enough to complete the drawings from the expedition he was hurt in a street accident, and he died at the age of 28. Petits unfinished work was first published in 1807 in the Atlas of the Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes and as discrete prints.

Baudin, Nicolas Thomas 1754 – 1803
Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. Born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré on 17 February 1754 Baudin joined the merchant navy at the age of 15 and the French East India Company at the age of 20.
Baudin then joined the La Marine Royale (French Navy) in 1774 and served in the Caribbean as an officier bleu during the American War of Independence of 1775–1783.
In 1785 Baudin and his brother Alexandre were respectively masters of the St Remy and Caroline, taking Acadian settlers from Nantes to La Nouvelle Orléans. In New Orleans local merchants contracted him to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France (now Mauritius), which he did in Josephine (also called Pepita), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 1787. In the course of the voyage, Josephine had called at Cap‑Français in Haiti to make a contract to transport slaves there from Madagascar; while in Haiti he also encountered the Austrian botanist Franz Josef Maerter, who apparently informed him that another Austrian botanist, Franz Boos, was at the Cape of Good Hope awaiting a ship to take him to Mauritius. Josephine called at the Cape and took Boos on board. At Mauritius, Boos chartered Baudin to transport him and the collection of plant specimens he had gathered there and at the Cape back to Europe, which Baudin did, Josephine arriving at Trieste on 18 June 1788. The Imperial government in Vienna was contemplating organizing another natural-history expedition, to which Boos would be appointed, in which two ships would be sent to the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India, the Persian Gulf, Bengal, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, Tongking, Japan and China. Baudin had been given reason to hope that he would be given command of the ships of this expedition.
Later in 1788 Baudin sailed on a commercial voyage from Trieste to Canton in Jardiniere. He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste. From there, he sent Jardiniere under her second captain on a fur-trading venture to the north-west coast of America, but the ship foundered off Asuncion Island in the Marianas in late 1789.
Baudin made his way to Mauritius, where he purchased a replacement ship, Jardiniere II, but this vessel was wrecked in a cyclone that struck Port Louis on 15 December 1789. Baudin embarked on the Spanish Royal Philippines Company ship, Placeres, which sailed from Port Louis for Cadiz in August 1790. Placeres called at the Cape of Good Hope where it took on board the large number of plant and animal specimens collected in South Africa for the Imperial palace at Schönbrunn by Georg Scholl, the assistant of Franz Boos. Because of the poor condition of the ship, Placeres had to put in at the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, where Scholls collection of specimens was deposited.
Baudin proceeded to Martinique, from where he addressed an offer to the Imperial government in Vienna to conduct to Canton commissioners who would be empowered to negotiate with the Chinese merchants there a settlement of the debts incurred by the Imperial Asiatic Company, which would enable the company to renew its trade with China. On its return voyage from Canton, the proposed expedition would call at the Cape of Good Hope to pick up Scholl and the remainder of his natural-history collection for conveyance to Schönbrunn.
After returning to Vienna in September 1791, Baudin continued to press his case for an expedition under the Imperial flag to the Indian Ocean and China, and in January 1792 he was granted a commission of captain in the Imperial navy for this purpose. A ship, called Jardiniere, was acquired and the botanists Franz Bredemeyer and Joseph van der Schot appointed to the expedition. After delays caused by the outbreak of war between France and Austria (April 1792), Jardiniere departed from the Spanish port of Málaga on 1 October 1792. From the Cape of Good Hope Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland (Australia), but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.
From Bombay the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, where it gathered botanical and zoological collections. The expedition came to an abrupt end in June 1794 when Jardiniere went aground in a storm while attempting to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Baudin survived the wreck and made his way to the United States, from where he went to France. He managed to send Jardinieres cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.
In Paris, Baudin visited Antoine de Jussieu at the Museum National dHistoire Naturelle in March 1796 to suggest a botanical voyage to the Caribbean, during which he would recover the collection of specimens he had left in Trinidad. The Museum and the French government accepted the proposal, and Baudin was appointed commander of an expedition in the ship Belle Angélique, with four assigned botanists: René Maugé, André Pierre Ledru, Anselme Riedlé and Stanislas Levillain. Belle Angélique cleared Le Havre on 30 September 1796 for the Canary Islands, where the ship was condemned as unseaworthy. The expedition sailed from the Canaries in a replacement vessel, Fanny, and reached Trinidad in April 1797. The British, who had just captured the island from the Spanish in February 1797, refused to allow Baudin to recover the collection of natural-history specimens. Baudin took Fanny to St. Thomas and St. Croix, and then to Puerto Rico, specimens being collected in all three islands. At St Croix, Fanny was replaced by a newly purchased ship, renamed Belle Angelique. The expedition returned to France in June 1798 with a large collection of plants, birds and insects, which was incorporated into Napoleon Bonapartes triumphal procession celebrating his recent Italian victories.
On 24 July 1798, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, Baudin presented to the Assembly of Professors and Administrators of the National Museum of Natural History a plan for a hydrographic-survey expedition to the South Seas, which would include a search for fauna and flora that could be brought back for cultivation in France. The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited. The expedition would require two well-equipped ships, which would carry a team of astronomers, naturalists and scientific draughtsmen over whom Baudin as commander would have absolute authority. The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico. The expedition would then continue into the Pacific Ocean, including a visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands, and would be completed with a survey of the yet unexplored south-west coast of New Holland (Australia). After considering this extensive proposal, the French government decided to proceed with an expedition confined to a survey of western and southern New Holland (as Australia was called at the time).
In October 1800 Baudin was selected to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia (New Holland). He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. He reached Australia in May 1801, and would explore and map the western coast and a part of the little-known southern coast of the continent. The scientific expedition proved a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered. The French also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect.
In April 1802 Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies. In Sydney he bought a new ship — Casuarina — named after the wood it was made from. From there he sent home Naturaliste, which had on board all of the specimens that had been discovered by Baudin and his crew. He then headed for Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. Baudin then sailed for home, stopping at Mauritius.
According to recent researches by academics from the University of Adelaide, during Baudins expedition, François Péron, who had become the chief zoologist and intellectual leader of the mission, wrote a report for Napoleon on ways to invade and capture the British colony at Sydney Cove.
Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius on 16 September 1803, at the age of 49, apparently in the home of Madame Alexandrine Kerivel. Baudins exact resting place is not known, but the historian Auguste Toussaint believed that he was interred in the Kerivel family vault. However, the historian Edward Duyker likes to think that Baudin was buried in Le Cimetière de lOuest in the district of Port Louis just a few hundred metres from the explorers certain love: the sea.

Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request.

• Title : Nouvelle-Hollande. Nelle Galles Du Sud. Nourou-gal-derri & avancant pour combattre
• Size: 13in x 10in (330mm x 255mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1807
• Ref #:  93087

Description:
This exquisite, rare original copper-plate engraved antique print of an Aboriginal warrior of Port Jackson carrying a spear & shield, was engraved by Barthélemy Roger, after the 1802 drawing by Nicolas-Martin Petit and was published by Francois Peron (1775 - 1810) in the 1st edition atlas of Nicolas Thomas Baudins expedition to Australia Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes in 1807.
This is a wonderful original stipple point engraving by Petit & Roger bringing to life this wonderful 1st Australian.

Nicholas Martin Petit sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the expedition of the Géographe and the Naturaliste in late 1800. The scientific field of anthropology was in its infancy – the French had founded the Society of the Observers of Man in 1799. Having embarked as a fourth-class gunner’s mate, Petit, who had had some graphic arts training, became one of the expeditions two illustrators when the official artists quit. From June to November 1802, the expedition was delayed in Sydney while its two ships were repaired. During this time Petit completed portraits of people of the Cadigal, Dharawal, Gweagal, Kurringai and Darug language groups of the Sydney Harbour region. While the sitters names appear to be noted on the works, it is possible that the inscriptions merely reflect French misinterpretation of the Aborigines communications with them.
The portrait of Nourou-gal-derri is pictured advancing for battle.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - 
Colors used: - 
General color appearance: - 
Paper size: - 13in x 10in (330mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 13in x 10in (330mm x 255mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light spotting to left and bottom margins, not affecting the image
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None

Background: 
The Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland, Australia. The expedition started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur as well as the geographer Pierre Faure.
The Baudin expedition departed Le Havre, France, on 19 October 1800. Because of delays in receiving his instructions and problems encountered in Isle de France (now Mauritius) they did not reach Cape Leeuwin on the south-west corner of Australia until May 1801. Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. They then sailed north, but the ships became separated and did not meet again until they reached Timor. On their journeys the Géographe and the Naturaliste surveyed large stretches of the north-western coast. The expedition was severely affected by dysentery and fever, but sailed from Timor on 13 November 1801, back down the north-west and west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmanias east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians.
The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in Naturaliste decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. En route, in April 1802, Hamelin explored the area of Western Port, Victoria, and gave names to places, a number of which have survived, for example, Ile des Français is now called French Island.
Meanwhile, Baudin in the Géographe continued westward, and in April 1802 encountered the British ship Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincents and Spencers Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago, the point reached by t Gulden Zeepaert in 1627 before heading for Port Jackson as well for supplies.
In late 1802 the expedition was at Port Jackson, where the government sold 60 casks of flour and 25 casks of salt meat to Baudin to resupply his two vessels. The supplies permitted Naturaliste to return to France and Géographe to continue her explorations of the Australian coast. Naturaliste took with her the Colonys staff surgeon, Mr. James Thomson, whom Governor Philip Gidley King had given permission to return to England.
Before resuming the voyage Baudin purchased a 30 ton schooner, which he named the Casuarina, a smaller vessel which could conduct close inshore survey work. He sent the larger Naturaliste under Hamelin back to France with all the specimens that had been collected by Baudin and his crew. As the voyage had progressed Louis de Freycinet, now a Lieutenant, had shown his talents as an officer and a hydrographer and so was given command of the Casuarina. The expedition then headed for Tasmania and conducted further charting of Bass Strait before sailing west, following the west coast northward, and after another visit to Timor, undertook further exploration along the north coast of Australia. Plagued by contrary winds, ill health, and because the quadrupeds and emus were very sick, it was decided on 7 July 1803 to return to France. On the return voyage, the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis on 16 September 1803. The expedition finally reached France on 24 March 1804.
The scientific expedition was considered a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered.

Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777 – 1804
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David. He avoided conscription into Napoleons armies, but wanting to travel, signed up with post Captain Nicholas Baudin on a voyage to the antipodes sponsored by the French government. Petit and fellow artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur were enlisted directly by Baudin (as 4th class gunners mates) while the two official artists were hired by the organisers of the expedition. Baudin set off in two lavishly equipped vessels, the Géographe and the Naturaliste on 19 October 1800. By the time the expedition reached Mauritius the official artists had quit. Petit and Lesueur took over their duties, but as neither was trained in scientific method or presentation, the value of their work was primarily aesthetic. The French were at this time developing a new scientific field - anthropology. The Society of the Observers of Man was founded in 1799 for this purpose. The study of Man formed part of the background for Petits sensitive drawings and paintings of the indigenous people of Van Diemens Land, Port Jackson and Western Australia. Lesueur focused on the depiction of animals. The expedition charted the coast of Western Australia and Van Diemens land but was plagued by scurvy. On 20 June 1802 the two ships limped into Port Jackson and stayed for five months to refit, during which time Petit completed a number of portraits of Sydney Indigenous people, including the two images of the Eora men, Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erren-gou-la-ga. Petit eventually returned to France in 1804. However, before he was well enough to complete the drawings from the expedition he was hurt in a street accident, and he died at the age of 28. Petits unfinished work was first published in 1807 in the Atlas of the Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes and as discrete prints.

Baudin, Nicolas Thomas 1754 – 1803
Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. Born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré on 17 February 1754 Baudin joined the merchant navy at the age of 15 and the French East India Company at the age of 20.
Baudin then joined the La Marine Royale (French Navy) in 1774 and served in the Caribbean as an officier bleu during the American War of Independence of 1775–1783.
In 1785 Baudin and his brother Alexandre were respectively masters of the St Remy and Caroline, taking Acadian settlers from Nantes to La Nouvelle Orléans. In New Orleans local merchants contracted him to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France (now Mauritius), which he did in Josephine (also called Pepita), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 1787. In the course of the voyage, Josephine had called at Cap‑Français in Haiti to make a contract to transport slaves there from Madagascar; while in Haiti he also encountered the Austrian botanist Franz Josef Maerter, who apparently informed him that another Austrian botanist, Franz Boos, was at the Cape of Good Hope awaiting a ship to take him to Mauritius. Josephine called at the Cape and took Boos on board. At Mauritius, Boos chartered Baudin to transport him and the collection of plant specimens he had gathered there and at the Cape back to Europe, which Baudin did, Josephine arriving at Trieste on 18 June 1788. The Imperial government in Vienna was contemplating organizing another natural-history expedition, to which Boos would be appointed, in which two ships would be sent to the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India, the Persian Gulf, Bengal, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, Tongking, Japan and China. Baudin had been given reason to hope that he would be given command of the ships of this expedition.
Later in 1788 Baudin sailed on a commercial voyage from Trieste to Canton in Jardiniere. He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste. From there, he sent Jardiniere under her second captain on a fur-trading venture to the north-west coast of America, but the ship foundered off Asuncion Island in the Marianas in late 1789.
Baudin made his way to Mauritius, where he purchased a replacement ship, Jardiniere II, but this vessel was wrecked in a cyclone that struck Port Louis on 15 December 1789. Baudin embarked on the Spanish Royal Philippines Company ship, Placeres, which sailed from Port Louis for Cadiz in August 1790. Placeres called at the Cape of Good Hope where it took on board the large number of plant and animal specimens collected in South Africa for the Imperial palace at Schönbrunn by Georg Scholl, the assistant of Franz Boos. Because of the poor condition of the ship, Placeres had to put in at the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, where Scholls collection of specimens was deposited.
Baudin proceeded to Martinique, from where he addressed an offer to the Imperial government in Vienna to conduct to Canton commissioners who would be empowered to negotiate with the Chinese merchants there a settlement of the debts incurred by the Imperial Asiatic Company, which would enable the company to renew its trade with China. On its return voyage from Canton, the proposed expedition would call at the Cape of Good Hope to pick up Scholl and the remainder of his natural-history collection for conveyance to Schönbrunn.
After returning to Vienna in September 1791, Baudin continued to press his case for an expedition under the Imperial flag to the Indian Ocean and China, and in January 1792 he was granted a commission of captain in the Imperial navy for this purpose. A ship, called Jardiniere, was acquired and the botanists Franz Bredemeyer and Joseph van der Schot appointed to the expedition. After delays caused by the outbreak of war between France and Austria (April 1792), Jardiniere departed from the Spanish port of Málaga on 1 October 1792. From the Cape of Good Hope Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland (Australia), but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.
From Bombay the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, where it gathered botanical and zoological collections. The expedition came to an abrupt end in June 1794 when Jardiniere went aground in a storm while attempting to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Baudin survived the wreck and made his way to the United States, from where he went to France. He managed to send Jardinieres cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.
In Paris, Baudin visited Antoine de Jussieu at the Museum National dHistoire Naturelle in March 1796 to suggest a botanical voyage to the Caribbean, during which he would recover the collection of specimens he had left in Trinidad. The Museum and the French government accepted the proposal, and Baudin was appointed commander of an expedition in the ship Belle Angélique, with four assigned botanists: René Maugé, André Pierre Ledru, Anselme Riedlé and Stanislas Levillain. Belle Angélique cleared Le Havre on 30 September 1796 for the Canary Islands, where the ship was condemned as unseaworthy. The expedition sailed from the Canaries in a replacement vessel, Fanny, and reached Trinidad in April 1797. The British, who had just captured the island from the Spanish in February 1797, refused to allow Baudin to recover the collection of natural-history specimens. Baudin took Fanny to St. Thomas and St. Croix, and then to Puerto Rico, specimens being collected in all three islands. At St Croix, Fanny was replaced by a newly purchased ship, renamed Belle Angelique. The expedition returned to France in June 1798 with a large collection of plants, birds and insects, which was incorporated into Napoleon Bonapartes triumphal procession celebrating his recent Italian victories.
On 24 July 1798, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, Baudin presented to the Assembly of Professors and Administrators of the National Museum of Natural History a plan for a hydrographic-survey expedition to the South Seas, which would include a search for fauna and flora that could be brought back for cultivation in France. The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited. The expedition would require two well-equipped ships, which would carry a team of astronomers, naturalists and scientific draughtsmen over whom Baudin as commander would have absolute authority. The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico. The expedition would then continue into the Pacific Ocean, including a visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands, and would be completed with a survey of the yet unexplored south-west coast of New Holland (Australia). After considering this extensive proposal, the French government decided to proceed with an expedition confined to a survey of western and southern New Holland (as Australia was called at the time).
In October 1800 Baudin was selected to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia (New Holland). He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. He reached Australia in May 1801, and would explore and map the western coast and a part of the little-known southern coast of the continent. The scientific expedition proved a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered. The French also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect.
In April 1802 Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies. In Sydney he bought a new ship — Casuarina — named after the wood it was made from. From there he sent home Naturaliste, which had on board all of the specimens that had been discovered by Baudin and his crew. He then headed for Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. Baudin then sailed for home, stopping at Mauritius.
According to recent researches by academics from the University of Adelaide, during Baudins expedition, François Péron, who had become the chief zoologist and intellectual leader of the mission, wrote a report for Napoleon on ways to invade and capture the British colony at Sydney Cove.
Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius on 16 September 1803, at the age of 49, apparently in the home of Madame Alexandrine Kerivel. Baudins exact resting place is not known, but the historian Auguste Toussaint believed that he was interred in the Kerivel family vault. However, the historian Edward Duyker likes to think that Baudin was buried in Le Cimetière de lOuest in the district of Port Louis just a few hundred metres from the explorers certain love: the sea.

Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request.

• Title : Nouvelle-Hollande. Nelle Galles Du Sud. Nourou-gal-derri & avancant pour combattre
• Size: 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
• Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
• Date : 1807
• Ref #:  91240

Description:
This exquisite, rare original copper-plate engraved antique print of an Aboriginal warrior of Port Jackson carrying a spear & shield, was engraved by Barthélemy Roger, after the 1802 drawing by Nicolas-Martin Petit and was published by Francois Peron (1775 - 1810) in the 1st edition atlas of Nicolas Thomas Baudins expedition to Australia Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes in 1807.
This is a wonderful original stipple point engraving by Petit & Roger bringing to life this wonderful 1st Australian.

Nicholas Martin Petit sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the expedition of the Géographe and the Naturaliste in late 1800. The scientific field of anthropology was in its infancy – the French had founded the Society of the Observers of Man in 1799. Having embarked as a fourth-class gunner’s mate, Petit, who had had some graphic arts training, became one of the expeditions two illustrators when the official artists quit. From June to November 1802, the expedition was delayed in Sydney while its two ships were repaired. During this time Petit completed portraits of people of the Cadigal, Dharawal, Gweagal, Kurringai and Darug language groups of the Sydney Harbour region. While the sitters names appear to be noted on the works, it is possible that the inscriptions merely reflect French misinterpretation of the Aborigines communications with them.
The portrait of Nourou-gal-derri is pictured advancing for battle.

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - 
Colors used: - 
General color appearance: - 
Paper size: - 14in x 10in (355mm x 255mm)
Plate size: - 12 1/2in x 9 1/2in (320mm x 240mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - 2 small repair to left margin, no loss
Verso: - None

Background: 
The Baudin Expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland, Australia. The expedition started with two ships, Géographe, captained by Baudin, and Naturaliste captained by Jacques Hamelin, and was accompanied by nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, François Péron and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur as well as the geographer Pierre Faure.
The Baudin expedition departed Le Havre, France, on 19 October 1800. Because of delays in receiving his instructions and problems encountered in Isle de France (now Mauritius) they did not reach Cape Leeuwin on the south-west corner of Australia until May 1801. Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. They then sailed north, but the ships became separated and did not meet again until they reached Timor. On their journeys the Géographe and the Naturaliste surveyed large stretches of the north-western coast. The expedition was severely affected by dysentery and fever, but sailed from Timor on 13 November 1801, back down the north-west and west coast, then across the Great Australian Bight, reaching Tasmania on 13 January 1802. They charted the whole length of Tasmanias east coast and there were extensive interactions with the Indigenous Tasmanians, with whom they had peaceful relationships. They notably produced precious ethnological studies of Indigenous Tasmanians.
The expedition then began surveying the south coast of Australia, but then Captain Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin in Naturaliste decided to make for Port Jackson (Sydney) as he was running short of food and water, and in need of anchors. En route, in April 1802, Hamelin explored the area of Western Port, Victoria, and gave names to places, a number of which have survived, for example, Ile des Français is now called French Island.
Meanwhile, Baudin in the Géographe continued westward, and in April 1802 encountered the British ship Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, at Encounter Bay in what is now South Australia. Flinders informed Baudin of his discovery of Kangaroo Island, St. Vincents and Spencers Gulfs. Baudin sailed on to the Nuyts Archipelago, the point reached by t Gulden Zeepaert in 1627 before heading for Port Jackson as well for supplies.
In late 1802 the expedition was at Port Jackson, where the government sold 60 casks of flour and 25 casks of salt meat to Baudin to resupply his two vessels. The supplies permitted Naturaliste to return to France and Géographe to continue her explorations of the Australian coast. Naturaliste took with her the Colonys staff surgeon, Mr. James Thomson, whom Governor Philip Gidley King had given permission to return to England.
Before resuming the voyage Baudin purchased a 30 ton schooner, which he named the Casuarina, a smaller vessel which could conduct close inshore survey work. He sent the larger Naturaliste under Hamelin back to France with all the specimens that had been collected by Baudin and his crew. As the voyage had progressed Louis de Freycinet, now a Lieutenant, had shown his talents as an officer and a hydrographer and so was given command of the Casuarina. The expedition then headed for Tasmania and conducted further charting of Bass Strait before sailing west, following the west coast northward, and after another visit to Timor, undertook further exploration along the north coast of Australia. Plagued by contrary winds, ill health, and because the quadrupeds and emus were very sick, it was decided on 7 July 1803 to return to France. On the return voyage, the ships stopped in Mauritius, where Baudin died of tuberculosis on 16 September 1803. The expedition finally reached France on 24 March 1804.
The scientific expedition was considered a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered.

Nicolas-Martin Petit 1777 – 1804
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David. He avoided conscription into Napoleons armies, but wanting to travel, signed up with post Captain Nicholas Baudin on a voyage to the antipodes sponsored by the French government. Petit and fellow artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur were enlisted directly by Baudin (as 4th class gunners mates) while the two official artists were hired by the organisers of the expedition. Baudin set off in two lavishly equipped vessels, the Géographe and the Naturaliste on 19 October 1800. By the time the expedition reached Mauritius the official artists had quit. Petit and Lesueur took over their duties, but as neither was trained in scientific method or presentation, the value of their work was primarily aesthetic. The French were at this time developing a new scientific field - anthropology. The Society of the Observers of Man was founded in 1799 for this purpose. The study of Man formed part of the background for Petits sensitive drawings and paintings of the indigenous people of Van Diemens Land, Port Jackson and Western Australia. Lesueur focused on the depiction of animals. The expedition charted the coast of Western Australia and Van Diemens land but was plagued by scurvy. On 20 June 1802 the two ships limped into Port Jackson and stayed for five months to refit, during which time Petit completed a number of portraits of Sydney Indigenous people, including the two images of the Eora men, Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erren-gou-la-ga. Petit eventually returned to France in 1804. However, before he was well enough to complete the drawings from the expedition he was hurt in a street accident, and he died at the age of 28. Petits unfinished work was first published in 1807 in the Atlas of the Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes and as discrete prints.

Baudin, Nicolas Thomas 1754 – 1803
Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. Born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré on 17 February 1754 Baudin joined the merchant navy at the age of 15 and the French East India Company at the age of 20.
Baudin then joined the La Marine Royale (French Navy) in 1774 and served in the Caribbean as an officier bleu during the American War of Independence of 1775–1783.
In 1785 Baudin and his brother Alexandre were respectively masters of the St Remy and Caroline, taking Acadian settlers from Nantes to La Nouvelle Orléans. In New Orleans local merchants contracted him to take a cargo of wood, salted meat, cod and flour to Isle de France (now Mauritius), which he did in Josephine (also called Pepita), departing New Orleans on 14 July 1786 and arriving at Isle de France on 27 March 1787. In the course of the voyage, Josephine had called at Cap‑Français in Haiti to make a contract to transport slaves there from Madagascar; while in Haiti he also encountered the Austrian botanist Franz Josef Maerter, who apparently informed him that another Austrian botanist, Franz Boos, was at the Cape of Good Hope awaiting a ship to take him to Mauritius. Josephine called at the Cape and took Boos on board. At Mauritius, Boos chartered Baudin to transport him and the collection of plant specimens he had gathered there and at the Cape back to Europe, which Baudin did, Josephine arriving at Trieste on 18 June 1788. The Imperial government in Vienna was contemplating organizing another natural-history expedition, to which Boos would be appointed, in which two ships would be sent to the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India, the Persian Gulf, Bengal, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, Tongking, Japan and China. Baudin had been given reason to hope that he would be given command of the ships of this expedition.
Later in 1788 Baudin sailed on a commercial voyage from Trieste to Canton in Jardiniere. He apparently arrived at Canton from Mauritius under the flag of the United States of America, probably to avoid the possibility of having his ship seized by the Chinese for payment of the debts owed them by the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste. From there, he sent Jardiniere under her second captain on a fur-trading venture to the north-west coast of America, but the ship foundered off Asuncion Island in the Marianas in late 1789.
Baudin made his way to Mauritius, where he purchased a replacement ship, Jardiniere II, but this vessel was wrecked in a cyclone that struck Port Louis on 15 December 1789. Baudin embarked on the Spanish Royal Philippines Company ship, Placeres, which sailed from Port Louis for Cadiz in August 1790. Placeres called at the Cape of Good Hope where it took on board the large number of plant and animal specimens collected in South Africa for the Imperial palace at Schönbrunn by Georg Scholl, the assistant of Franz Boos. Because of the poor condition of the ship, Placeres had to put in at the island of Trinidad in the West Indies, where Scholls collection of specimens was deposited.
Baudin proceeded to Martinique, from where he addressed an offer to the Imperial government in Vienna to conduct to Canton commissioners who would be empowered to negotiate with the Chinese merchants there a settlement of the debts incurred by the Imperial Asiatic Company, which would enable the company to renew its trade with China. On its return voyage from Canton, the proposed expedition would call at the Cape of Good Hope to pick up Scholl and the remainder of his natural-history collection for conveyance to Schönbrunn.
After returning to Vienna in September 1791, Baudin continued to press his case for an expedition under the Imperial flag to the Indian Ocean and China, and in January 1792 he was granted a commission of captain in the Imperial navy for this purpose. A ship, called Jardiniere, was acquired and the botanists Franz Bredemeyer and Joseph van der Schot appointed to the expedition. After delays caused by the outbreak of war between France and Austria (April 1792), Jardiniere departed from the Spanish port of Málaga on 1 October 1792. From the Cape of Good Hope Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland (Australia), but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.
From Bombay the expedition proceeded to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa, where it gathered botanical and zoological collections. The expedition came to an abrupt end in June 1794 when Jardiniere went aground in a storm while attempting to enter Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope. Baudin survived the wreck and made his way to the United States, from where he went to France. He managed to send Jardinieres cargo of natural history specimens to the island of Trinidad.
In Paris, Baudin visited Antoine de Jussieu at the Museum National dHistoire Naturelle in March 1796 to suggest a botanical voyage to the Caribbean, during which he would recover the collection of specimens he had left in Trinidad. The Museum and the French government accepted the proposal, and Baudin was appointed commander of an expedition in the ship Belle Angélique, with four assigned botanists: René Maugé, André Pierre Ledru, Anselme Riedlé and Stanislas Levillain. Belle Angélique cleared Le Havre on 30 September 1796 for the Canary Islands, where the ship was condemned as unseaworthy. The expedition sailed from the Canaries in a replacement vessel, Fanny, and reached Trinidad in April 1797. The British, who had just captured the island from the Spanish in February 1797, refused to allow Baudin to recover the collection of natural-history specimens. Baudin took Fanny to St. Thomas and St. Croix, and then to Puerto Rico, specimens being collected in all three islands. At St Croix, Fanny was replaced by a newly purchased ship, renamed Belle Angelique. The expedition returned to France in June 1798 with a large collection of plants, birds and insects, which was incorporated into Napoleon Bonapartes triumphal procession celebrating his recent Italian victories.
On 24 July 1798, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, Baudin presented to the Assembly of Professors and Administrators of the National Museum of Natural History a plan for a hydrographic-survey expedition to the South Seas, which would include a search for fauna and flora that could be brought back for cultivation in France. The expedition would also have the aim of promoting the economic and commercial interests of France in the regions to be visited. The expedition would require two well-equipped ships, which would carry a team of astronomers, naturalists and scientific draughtsmen over whom Baudin as commander would have absolute authority. The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico. The expedition would then continue into the Pacific Ocean, including a visit to Tahiti and the Society Islands, and would be completed with a survey of the yet unexplored south-west coast of New Holland (Australia). After considering this extensive proposal, the French government decided to proceed with an expedition confined to a survey of western and southern New Holland (as Australia was called at the time).
In October 1800 Baudin was selected to lead what has become known as the Baudin expedition to map the coast of Australia (New Holland). He had two ships, Géographe and Naturaliste captained by Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. He reached Australia in May 1801, and would explore and map the western coast and a part of the little-known southern coast of the continent. The scientific expedition proved a great success, with more than 2500 new species discovered. The French also met Aboriginal peoples and treated them with great respect.
In April 1802 Baudin met Matthew Flinders, also engaged in charting the coastline, in Encounter Bay in present-day South Australia. Baudin then stopped at the British colony at Sydney for supplies. In Sydney he bought a new ship — Casuarina — named after the wood it was made from. From there he sent home Naturaliste, which had on board all of the specimens that had been discovered by Baudin and his crew. He then headed for Tasmania, before continuing north to Timor. Baudin then sailed for home, stopping at Mauritius.
According to recent researches by academics from the University of Adelaide, during Baudins expedition, François Péron, who had become the chief zoologist and intellectual leader of the mission, wrote a report for Napoleon on ways to invade and capture the British colony at Sydney Cove.
Baudin died of tuberculosis at Mauritius on 16 September 1803, at the age of 49, apparently in the home of Madame Alexandrine Kerivel. Baudins exact resting place is not known, but the historian Auguste Toussaint believed that he was interred in the Kerivel family vault. However, the historian Edward Duyker likes to think that Baudin was buried in Le Cimetière de lOuest in the district of Port Louis just a few hundred metres from the explorers certain love: the sea.

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• Title : Die Statt Wormbs
• Ref #:  22670
• Size: 27in x 13in (685mm x 330mm)
• Date : 1574
• Condition: (A) Very Good Condition

Description:
This large folding original antique print a View of the important German city ofWormbs, south of Hamburg was published in the 1574 release of Sebastian MunstersCosmographia published by Sebastian Petri, Basle.
(This is a reasonably scarce map as the large fold out maps in Cosmographia were easily damaged and lost)

Background: For a variety of reasons town plans were comparatively latecomers in the long history of cartography. Few cities in Europe in the middle ages had more than 20,00 inhabitants and even London in the late Elizabethan period had only 100-150,000 people which in itself was probably 10 times that of any other English city. The Nuremberg Chronicle in 1493 included one of the first town views of Jerusalem, thereafter, for most of the sixteenth century, German cartographers led the way in producing town plans in a modern sense. In 1544 Sebastian Munster issued in Basle his Cosmographia containing roughly sixty-six plans and views, some in the plan form, but many in the old panorama or birds eye view. (Ref: Tooley; M&B)

General Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Later
Colors used: - Green, blue, yellow, pink
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 27in x 13in (685mm x 330mm)
Plate size: - 25in x 10in (635 x 255m)
Margins: - 1/2in (12mm)

Imperfections:
Margins: - Light soiling
Plate area: -Folds re-joined small loss, light soiling, light creasing
Verso: - Light soiling, colour show through, half the map backed in archival material

• 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................

General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: -
Colors used: -
General color appearance: -
Paper size: - 10in x 8in (255mm x 205mm)
Plate size: - 9 1/2in x 7 1/4in (240mm x 185mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)

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

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