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C1773
A Chart of Captn Carteret’s Discoveries at New Britain, with part of Captn Cook’s Passage thro Endeavour Streights (sic).
First edition and issue of this scarce c.18th chart of New Guinea from the official British Admiralty-sanctioned edition of the accounts of the voyages of Cook, Byron, and Carteret. The chart shows Carteret’s tracks and discoveries made in H.M.S. Swallow, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A Chart of Captn Carteret’s Discoveries at New Britain, with part of Captn Cook’s Passage thro Endeavour Streights (sic).
Date:
C1773
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
627mm
x 215mm
Paper Size:
670mm
x 283mm
Platemark Size:
245mm
x 645mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1773
Description:
First edition and issue of this scarce c.18th chart of New Guinea from the official British Admiralty-sanctioned edition of the accounts of the voyages of Cook, Byron, and Carteret.
The chart shows Carteret’s tracks and discoveries made in H.M.S. Swallow, consort to the Dolphin under the command of Samuel Wallis (July–August 1767) as well as the discoveries made by Cook through Torres Strait on his first voyage (1770) and William Dampier (1699–1700).
NOTE: This is the first issue of the chart and is much larger than later versions published by Alexander Hogg and others. Additionally, the chart is often incorrectly attributed to Cook, which is inaccurate. The maker of the chart is unknown and was probably commissioned under instructions from Hawkesworth, the publisher of the accounts of Carteret, Wallis, Byron and Cook.
From Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,..
Collections:
Te Papa Museum of New Zealand: RB000015/049a
David Rumsey Collection: List No: 3403.016
National Library Australia: MAP RM 2007
Te Papa Museum of New Zealand: RB000015/049a
David Rumsey Collection: List No: 3403.016
National Library Australia: MAP RM 2007
James Cook (1728 - 1779)
Cook was the most important navigator of the Age of Enlightenment, a period that saw the mystery of the Southland resolved, the discovery of New Zealand, Hawaii, numerous Pacific Islands and confirmation that a Northwest Passage did not exist. Cook was born in Yorkshire, England, the son of a Scottish labourer and apprenticeship for three years under John Walker, a Quaker coal-shipper of Whitby. In 1755 Walker offered him a command, but instead Cook joined HMS Eagle and within a month was master's mate. After two years on the Channel service, he was promoted master of the Pembroke, and in 1758 crossed the Atlantic in her and took part in the siege of Louisburg and the survey of the St Lawrence River that led to the capture of Quebec. Returning to England in 1762 he married Elizabeth Batts (1742-1832?) of Shadwell, whom he was to rarely see in the ensuing years at sea. Cook then famously commanded three voyages that ended with his death on the island of Hawaii on 14 February 1779.
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Philip Carteret (1733 - 1796)
British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69. Carteret entered the Navy in 1747, serving aboard the Salisbury, and then under Captain John Byron from 1751 to 1755. Between 1757 and 1758 he was in the Guernsey on the Mediterranean Station. As a lieutenant in the Dolphin he accompanied Byron during his voyage of circumnavigation, from June 1764 to May 1766. In 1766 he was made a commander and given the command of the Swallow to circumnavigate the world, as consort to the Dolphin under the command of Samuel Wallis. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Carteret discovering Pitcairn Island and the Carteret Islands, which were subsequently named after him. In 1767, he also discovered a new archipelago inside Saint George's Channel between New Ireland and New Britain Islands (Papua New Guinea) and named it Duke of York Islands, as well as rediscovered the Solomon Islands first sighted by the Mendana in 1568, and the Juan Fernandez Islands first discovered by Juan Fernandez in 1574. He arrived back in England, at Spithead, on 20 March 1769. He was promoted to post captain in 1771.
