Chart of Part of the Coast of New South Wales, from Cape Tribulation to Endeavour Straits. By Lieut. J. Cook, 1770.

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 near present day Cooktown, Queensland. Printed in 1773.

 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, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970 659:  659, p.160.
Hakluyt Society, The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages. V.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:  Object IDPAI4018