EUA TONGA ISLANDS 1785 COOK ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED WOMAN NATIVE PORTRAIT

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EUA TONGA ISLANDS 1785 COOK ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED WOMAN NATIVE PORTRAIT:
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Description: Striking and highly decorative first french edition copper engravedportraitof a woman of Eua showing the chest bare, wearing long hair with a necklace.This map is indicative for details concerning Cook\'s Journal - January 21, 1778 Cook\'s ThirdVoyage (1776-1779).In the course of his first two voyages, Cook circumnavigated theglobe twice, sailed extensively into the Antarctic, and charted coastlines fromNewfoundland to New Zealand. Following these achievements, Cook\'s third voyagewas organized to seek an efficient route from England to southern and EasternAsia that would not entail rounding the Cape of Good Hope. The search for sucha Northwest (or Northeast) Passage had been on the agenda of northern Europeanmariners and merchants since the beginning of European expansion in the latefifteenth century. England\'s growing economic and colonial interests in Indiain the later eighteenth century provided the stimulus for the latestexploration for this route. Cook, again in command of the Resolution , was to approach theNorthwest Passage from the Pacific accompanied by a second ship, the Discovery, captained by Charles Clerke. The ships left England separately, regrouped atCape Town, and continued on to Tasmania, New Zealand, and Tahiti. Theexpedition then sailed north and made landfall at Christmas Island and theHawaiian Islands. Cook continued northward and charted the west coast of NorthAmerica from Northern California as far as the Bering Strait. He returned toHawaii for the winter and was killed in a skirmish with natives on February 14,1779. Upon Cook\'s death, Clerke took command of the expedition but died sixmonths later. The ships returned to England in 1780 under John Gore, who hadcommanded the Discovery after Cook\'s death. From start to finish, the voyagehad lasted more than four years.Date: 1785 ( undated )Source:James COOK TroisièmeVoyage de Cook, ou Voyage à l\'Océan Pacifique, Ordonné par le Roi d\'Angleterre,pour Faire des Découvertes dans l\'Hémisphère Nord, pour déterminer la position & l\'étendue de la Cote Ouest de l\'Amérique Septentrionale, da distance de l\'Asie, & résoudre la question du passage au Nord .... Paris: Hôtel de Thou,1785.Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 20,4 x 27,3Condition: Very strong and dark impression on very strong paper. Paper with chains. Uncolored as issued. Wide margin to the top. Wide lower margin. Wide right lateral margin. Wide left lateral margin. Top left corner partially missed. Small foxing and browning.Conditions are as you can see in the images.Mapmaker:CaptainJames Cook (7 November 1728 - 14 February 1779) is a seminal figure in thehistory of cartography for which we can offer only a cursory treatment here.Cook began sailing as a teenager in the British Merchant Navy before joiningthe Royal Navy in 1755. He was posted in America for a time where he workedSamuel Holland, William Bligh, and others in the mapping of the St. LawrenceRiver and Newfoundland. In 1766 Cook was commissioned to explore the Pacificand given a Captaincy with command of the Endeavour. What followed were three historic voyages ofdiscovery, the highlights of which include the first European contact withEastern Australia, the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands (among many otherPolynesian groups), the first circumnavigation of New Zealand, some of thefirst sightings of Antarctica, the first accurate mapping of the PacificNorthwest, and ultimately his own untimely death at the hands of angryHawaiians in 1779. The influence of Cook work on the mapping and exploration ofthe Pacific cannot be understated.View My responseView My Other Items For Sale

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