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C1784
Sketch of the Typa and Macao.
Mapmaker:
Rare c.18th engraved map by William Bligh (1754-1817), uncoloured as always issued, from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage. All other later copies made of this map by other publishers were … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Sketch of the Typa and Macao.
Date:
C1784
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued. Uncoloured as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
210mm
x 260mm
Paper Size:
230mm
x 296mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1784
Description:
Rare c.18th engraved map by William Bligh (1754-1817), uncoloured as always issued, from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage.
All other later copies made of this map by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality.
Map of Macao and the island of Typa (Taipa / Tamzai), China where the Resolution and Discovery were repaired and provisioned. They stayed from 1 December 1779 until 12th January 1780 and during their time in Macao sold the sea otter skins they had obtained at Kamtschatka for very high prices. This was to create the subsequent trade in pelts from the area. Cook/King III, p.410
From Cook & King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.
References:
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970: : 1543 & 1743-6, p.339.
Joppien, R. & Smith, B. The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages; Vol. I, II & III. Melbourne 1985-1987 : : 3.10A, ill.p.272.
Forbes, D. Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780- 1830. Honolulu /Sydney, 1999/2003 : : 62; cf.
Carter, J. & Muir, P. Printing and the Mind of Man London 1983 : 223.
Sabin, J. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. (1936) 1967 : : 16250.
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974 : 321.
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS RB/F990A/9
State Library Victoria: RARELT 910.41 C773VS
State Library South Australia: Special Collection: 919 C771
William Bligh (1754 - 1817)
Bligh was a naval officer and governor. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century. William was entered in H.M.S. Monmouth on July 1762, was paid off the following February, and joined the navy on 27 July 1770. Since there was no vacancy for midshipmen, he was rated 'able-seaman', but he messed with the former and officially became one in February 1771. On 17 March 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution, on James Cook's third voyage. On the voyage made a number of the charts.
