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C1785
plan-de-la-baye-de-awatska-sur-la-cote-oriental-william-bligh
Mapmaker:
William Bligh (1754 - 1817)
Rare map from the French edition of Cook’s voyages. Map of Avacha Bay, Russia, on the east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, with an inset of, ‘Plan off St. Peter and St. Paul, surveyed by William Bligh, Master of the Resolution. … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
plan-de-la-baye-de-awatska-sur-la-cote-oriental-william-bligh
Date:
C1785
Mapmaker:
William Bligh (1754 - 1817)
Condition:
In good condition, folds as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
205mm
x 270mm
Paper Size:
365mm
x 345mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1785
Description:
Rare map from the French edition of Cook’s voyages.
Map of Avacha Bay, Russia, on the east coast of Kamchatka
Peninsula, with an inset of, ‘Plan off St. Peter and St. Paul, surveyed
by William Bligh, Master of the Resolution. The expedition was to visit Avacha Bay twice, 29 April to 16 June 1779 and again 24 August to 10 October 1779.
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.
