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C1774
Banc de Sable dangereux Vu le 28.Sept 1767. Isles de Jofeph Freewill. L’Extremité Méridionale de Mindanao.
Mapmaker:
Scarce late c.18th engraved French edition of Phillip Carteret’s map of the southern part of Mindanao, Philippines, extending to the Freewill Islands (Mapia Atoll), now part of Indonesia. The map is frequently, though incorrectly, attributed to James Cook, a misconception … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Banc de Sable dangereux Vu le 28.Sept 1767. Isles de Jofeph Freewill. L’Extremité Méridionale de Mindanao.
Date:
C1774
Mapmaker:
Condition:
One minor spot at right, otherwise in good condition, with fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
184mm
x 182mm
Paper Size:
220mm
x 250mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1774
Description:
Scarce late c.18th engraved French edition of Phillip Carteret’s map of the southern part of Mindanao, Philippines, extending to the Freewill Islands (Mapia Atoll), now part of Indonesia.
The map is frequently, though incorrectly, attributed to James Cook, a misconception arising from its inclusion John Hawkesworth’s Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante, the authoritative continental edition of the official narratives of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook, and reflects Carteret’s independent surveying work during his circumnavigation of 1766–69.
From: Hawkesworth, J. Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante.
References:
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970: 659.
Collections:
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: 4-P2-19
National Library New Zealand: NLNZ ALMA 9913312233502836
New York Public Library: KBF (Hawkesworth, J. Relation des voyages entrepris) v. 1-4
State Library New South Wales: 991013932229702626
State Library Victoria: RARELTF ; 910.41 H31R
State Library South Australia: 910.4 H395 b
State Library Queensland: LCCallNum: 05034855
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.
