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C1785
Carte de la Riviere De Cook, dans la partie N.O.de L’Am�rique.
Mapmaker:
William Bligh (1754 - 1817)
Chart of Cooks River in the N.W. part of America. Cook Inlet Region (Alaska) Prince William Sound Region (Alaska)
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Full Title:
Carte de la Riviere De Cook, dans la partie N.O.de L’Am�rique.
Date:
C1785
Mapmaker:
William Bligh (1754 - 1817)
Condition:
In good condition, fold as issued.
Technique:
Original copper engraving
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1785
Description:
Chart of Cooks River in the N.W. part of America. Cook Inlet Region (Alaska) Prince William Sound Region (Alaska)
Mapmaker:
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.
