[A chest of New Zealand, as a specimen of the carving of the country.]

Rare engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage of a carved wooden chest.

Reference, Beddie 932-15, p.176, Joppien 1.164A, ill.p.216

From Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,..