C1784

Plan of the Bay of Awatska on the East C…

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Rare c.18th engraved map from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage. Map of Avacha Bay, Russia, on the east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, with an inset of, ‘Plan of St. Peter and … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Plan of the Bay of Awatska on the East Coast of Kamtschatka.

Date:

C1784

Mapmaker:

William Bligh (1754 - 1817)

Condition:

In good condition

Technique:

Copper engraving.

Image Size:

195mm

x 255mm

Paper Size:

214mm

x 285mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1784

Description:

Rare c.18th engraved map from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage.

Map of Avacha Bay, Russia, on the east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, with an inset of, ‘Plan of 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.

References:
Beddie 1743-64, p.342
Joppien 3.313A, ill.p.543

From Cook & King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere….

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.

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