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C1773
Chart of Part of the Coast of New South Wales, from Cape Tribulation to Endeavour Straits. By Lieut. J. Cook, 1770.
Mapmaker:
First edition of Cook’s famous chart of the Labyrinth where his ship the Endeavour hit a reef while navigating through the Great Barrier Reef.  Cook’s wrote in his log of the event; ‘before ten, we had twenty and one twenty … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Chart of Part of the Coast of New South Wales, from Cape Tribulation to Endeavour Straits. By Lieut. J. Cook, 1770.
Date:
C1773
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Small repaired tear at right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. With folds as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
335mm
x 300mm
Paper Size:
420mm
x 467mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1773
Description:
First edition of Cook’s famous chart of the Labyrinth where his ship the Endeavour hit a reef while navigating through the Great Barrier Reef.
 Cook’s wrote in his log of the event;
‘before ten, we had twenty and one twenty fathom, and this depth continuing, the gentlemen left the deck in great tranquility, and went to bed; but a few minutes before eleven, the water fhallowed at once from twenty to feventeen fathom, and before the lead could be caft again, the fhip ftruck, and remained immoveable, except by the heaving of the furge, that beat her against the craggs of the rock upon which she lay.’ Cook, Journals I, 3,545
From Hawkesworth, Relation des Voyages Entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste Britannique Actuallement Regnante. Paris
References:
Beddie 860, p.160
Hakluyt Society, The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages. Volume 1. The Voyages of the Endeavour 1768-1771. No. 42. London 1988: Mercury Bay, 1.216A, ill.p.214, Bay of Islands, 1.226A, ill.p.222 Tolaga Bay, 1.196A, ill.p.196
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974: 783.
Sabin, J. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. (1936) 1967: 30940
Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of Australia. London 1979:-327, p.45
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID1185163
Te Papa Museum of New Zealand: Map Coll-NZGB-1/4/47/Acc.54733
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers: RB/DQ990A/89
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: Identifier: ark:/12148/bpt6k5493702m
Royal Museums Greenwich:Â Â Object IDPAI4018
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.
