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C1784
sketch-of-the-harbours-on-the-north-side-of-eimeo-william-bligh
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Rare engraved map from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality. Map of … Read Full Description
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S/N: CK03E-2079-PI-SOC–228056
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Categories: French Polynesia Society Islands, Tahiti etc, CAPTAIN COOK
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Full Title:
sketch-of-the-harbours-on-the-north-side-of-eimeo-william-bligh
Date:
C1784
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Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
200mm
x 190mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1784
Description:
Rare engraved map from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s third and final voyage. All other later copies made of this image by other publishers were unauthorised, usually smaller and inferior in quality.
Map of Aimeo (Moorea), Society Islands, visited by Cook from 30 September to 11 October 1777.
‘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.
Beddie 1714-30, p.331
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.
