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C1785
plan-des-havres-quon-trouve-au-cote-n-deimeo-william-bligh
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Rare engraving 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, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
plan-des-havres-quon-trouve-au-cote-n-deimeo-william-bligh
Date:
C1785
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Repaired cropped top boarder small repaired tear top right.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
230mm
x 195mm
Paper Size:
270mm
x 220mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1785
Description:
Rare engraving 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 the
North side of the island, in the disctrict of Oboonohoo or Poonohoo.”
Cooks, Journals III, 2, 79.
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.
