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C1785
Plan des Havres qu’on trouve au Co…
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Rare c.18th engraved of map of Aimeo (Mo’orea, Society Islands), visited by Cook from 30 September to 11 October 1777, from the French edition of Cook’s voyages. ‘As I did not give up my design of touching at Eimeo, at … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Plan des Havres qu’on trouve au Cote N. D’Eimeo
Date:
C1785
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Top margin reinstated and a small repaired tear at top right, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
230mm
x 195mm
Paper Size:
270mm
x 220mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1785
Description:
Rare c.18th engraved of map of Aimeo (Mo’orea, Society Islands), visited by Cook from 30 September to 11 October 1777, from the French edition of Cook’s voyages.
‘As I did not give up my design of touching at Eimeo, at day-break, in the morning of the 30th, after leaving Otaheite, I stood for the North end of the island; the harbour which I wished to examine, being at that part of it. …This harbour, which is called Taloo is situated upon the North side of the island, in the disctrict of Oboonohoo or Poonohoo.”
Cooks, Journals III, 2, 79.
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
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.
