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C1784
A General Chart: Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Capt. Cook in this and his two preceeding Voyages; with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command.
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The most up to date c.18th map of the world which showed the results of Captain James Cook three voyages of exploration and included the Hawaiian Islands for the first time. From the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A General Chart: Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Capt. Cook in this and his two preceeding Voyages; with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command.
Date:
C1784
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued. Good wide margins.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
914mm
x 580mm
Paper Size:
960mm
x 623mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1784
Description:
The most up to date c.18th map of the world which showed the results of Captain James Cook three voyages of exploration and included the Hawaiian Islands for the first time.
From the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage.
Roberts’s important world map on Mercator’s projection includes the tracks of Captain Cook’s three voyages of exploration. Cook made an enormous contribution to the overall knowledge of world cartography having discovered and charted; the east coast of Australia, New Zealand, the Hawaiian Islands, explored the southern waters and disproved the existence of a navigable Northwest Passage. Roberts’s chart was the most up-to-date world map for its time.
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.
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
Henry Roberts (1756 - 1796)
Roberts was an officer in the Royal Navy who served with Captain Cook on his last two voyages. Roberts served as lieutenant on Cook's HMS Discovery, where he was entrusted with many hydrographic and cartographic tasks, and also met then-midshipman George Vancouver. Roberts spent many years after that voyage preparing the detailed charts that went into Cook's posthumous Atlas. He was also on Cook's HMS Resolution where he was to make a painting of the ship. In 1790, Roberts was appointed commander of the newly built HMS Discovery on another round-the-world voyage with George Vancouver as his first lieutenant. However, the Nootka Crisis called both men to duty elsewhere, and upon its resolution, Vancouver was given command of the historic voyage. Roberts died on 25 August 1796, Captain of HMS Undaunted in the West Indies, where he contracted yellow fever.
