Vue de la Baye de Matavaie Otahitu appellee Havre du Port Royal par le Capitaine Wallis.

Rare engraving from the French edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage, published (1774) the year after the English edition (1773).

The title in the English versions was:

[A View of Matavai Bay in Otaheite from One Tree Hill].

 View of Matavai Bay taken from Otaharra or One-Tree Hill, Tahiti. Cook arrived at Otaheite on 13 April 1769 to measure the transit of Venus across the Sun’s sphere on 3 June, an event which occurred only twice within eight years and once every 120 years. 

Reference; Joppien 1.29C ill.p. 101 (English edition)

From Hawkesworth, Relation des Voyages Entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste Britannique Actuallement Regnante:..