HAWAII ISLANDS UNITED STATES 1784 HOGG & COOK ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED SEA CHART

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HAWAII ISLANDS UNITED STATES 1784 HOGG & COOK ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED SEA CHART:
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Chart of Sandwich Isles.

In the lower left there is a large inset of Karakakooa Bay and the villages there. It was here that Cook was killed by angry Hawaiians. This map represents a seminal moment in Hawaii cartography and is the basis upon which all subsequent maps of Hawaii were drawn.

Cook\'s Third Voyage (1776-1779)

On his last voyage, Cook again commanded HMS Resolution, while Captain Charles Clerke commanded HMS Discovery. The voyage was ostensibly planned to return the Pacific Islander, Omai to Tahiti, or so the public were led to believe. The trip\'s principal goal was to locate a Northwest Passage around the American continent. After dropping Omai at Tahiti, Cook travelled north and in 1778 became the first European to begin formal contact with the Hawaiian Islands. After his initial landfall in January 1778 at Waimea harbour, Kauai, Cook named the archipelago the \"Sandwich Islands\" after the fourth Earl of Sandwich—the acting First Lord of the Admiralty.

From the Sandwich Islands Cook sailed north and then north-east to explore the west coast of North America north of the Spanish settlements in Alta California. He made landfall on the Oregon coast at approximately 44°30′ north latitude, naming his landing point Cape Foulweather. Bad weather forced his ships south to about 43° north before they could begin their exploration of the coast northward. He unknowingly sailed past the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and soon after entered Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island. He anchored near the First Nations village of Yuquot. Cook\'s two ships remained in Nootka Sound from 29 March to 26 April 1778, in what Cook called Ship Cove, now Resolution Cove, at the south end of Bligh Island, about 5 miles (8 km) east across Nootka Sound from Yuquot, lay a Nuu-chah-nulth village (whose chief Cook did not identify but may have been Maquinna). Relations between Cook\'s crew and the people of Yuquot were cordial if sometimes strained. In trading, the people of Yuquot demanded much more valuable items than the usual trinkets that had worked in Hawaii. Metal objects were much desired, but the lead, pewter, and tin traded at first soon fell into disrepute. The most valuable items which the British received in trade were sea otter pelts. During the stay, the Yuquot \"hosts\" essentially controlled the trade with the British vessels; the natives usually visited the British vessels at Resolution Cove instead of the British visiting the village of Yuquot at Friendly Cove.

After leaving Nootka Sound, Cook explored and mapped the coast all the way to the Bering Strait, on the way identifying what came to be known as Cook Inlet in Alaska. In a single visit, Cook charted the majority of the North American north-west coastline on world maps for the first time, determined the extent of Alaska, and closed the gaps in Russian (from the West) and Spanish (from the South) exploratory probes of the Northern limits of the Pacific.

By the second week of August 1778 Cook was through the Bering Strait, sailing into the Chukchi Sea. He headed north-east up the coast of Alaska until he was blocked by sea ice. His furthest north was 70 degrees 44 minutes. Cook then sailed west to the Siberian coast, and then south-east down the Siberian coast back to the Bering Strait. By early September 1778 he was back in the Bering Sea to begin the trip to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands. He became increasingly frustrated on this voyage, and perhaps began to suffer from a stomach ailment; it has been speculated that this led to irrational behaviour towards his crew, such as forcing them to eat walrus meat, which they had pronounced inedible.

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 - 14 February 1779) is a seminal figure in the history of cartography for which we can offer only a cursory treatment here. Cook began sailing as a teenager in the British Merchant Navy before joining the Royal Navy in 1755. He was posted in America for a time where he worked Samuel Holland, William Bligh, and others in the mapping of the St. Lawrence River and Newfoundland. In 1766 Cook was commissioned to explore the Pacific and given a Captaincy with command of the Endeavour. What followed were three historic voyages of discovery, the highlights of which include the first European contact with Eastern Australia, the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands (among many other Polynesian groups), the first circumnavigation of New Zealand, some of the first sightings of Antarctica, the first accurate mapping of the Pacific Northwest, and ultimately his own untimely death at the hands of angry Hawaiians in 1779. The influence of Cook work on the mapping and exploration of the Pacific cannot be understated.

Source: George William Anderson A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World: Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority, Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook\'s First, Second, Third, and Last Voyages, Undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty…. to which will be added, complete and genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. ... the whole of these voyages of Capt. James Cook, &c. being newly written by the editors from the authentic journals of several principal officers and other gentlemen ... who sailed in the various ships ; and now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson .., London, Printed for Alex. Hogg ..., [1784?]

This is the massive compilation of the three voyages of discoverey of Captain James Cook, one of histories greatest explorers. James Cook was born on October 27, 1728 in the small Yorkshire village of Marston. He commanded three voyages of discovery for Great Britain, and sailed around the world twice. These voyages led to the establishment of colonies throughout the Pacific by several European countries. Cook was an apprentice to a shipping company at age 18. When the Seven Year\'s War broke out he joined the British Navy at 27 in 1755 and spent considerable time New Foundland and the Lake Champlain area of North America. He soon earned command of his first vessel, the Mercury. In 1768, the Navy appointed him leader of a scientific expedition to the Pacific to observe the transit of Venus. During this voyage they also discovered and named the Society Islands, and then sailed for New Zealand, which was found to consist of two great islands admirably adapted for settlement \"should this ever be thought an object worthy the attention of Englishmen.\" Cook became the first European to visit New Zealand. Then they sailed for Australia - New Holland as it was called - explored the east coast for two thousand miles, and took over the country in the king\'s name. Narrowly escaping disaster when the ship ran on a coral reef, they made for Batavia, sailing between New Holland and New Guinea, thus proving them to be two distinct countries. Cook also had secret orders to seek a southern continent geographers long believed kept the world in balance. The search for the southern continent (\"Terres Australes\" or lands in the south) was not successful on the first voyage. During his return trip to England in 1771, Cook was the first ship commander to prevent the outbreak of scurvy, by serving his crew fruit and sauerkraut to prevent the disease. In the following autumn he received another commission, \"to complete the discovery of the Southern Hemisphere\". He was given two ships, the Resolution and the Adventure, which he stocked with proper food stores, including lemons, enough to last for two years and which he knew would prevent scurvy. He left England in July 1772, and sailed by way of the Cape far south into the Antarctic Ocean. Cook sailed farther south than any other European. He circled Antarctica in Resolution, but the ice surrounding the continent prevented the sighting of land. After a run of \"three thousand five hundred leagues\" they put into Dusky Bay, New Zealand, where they landed domestic animals and planted English vegetables. The next few weeks were spent among the islands, and then once more they sailed to the southern ice. Cook sailed his ship right round the Pole, and the great southern continent of the old maps remained hidden. He turned for home, discovering and naming many islands; and after crossing a greater space of sea than any ship had ever crossed before, returned once more to England. And this time, during the whole voyage, they lost but one man by disease. The existence of the Antarctica remained unproved until 1840. Upon his return, Cook was promoted to Captain. In less then a year in July of 1776 Cook set sail on his third voyage, again in Resolution. On this voyage he had with him as navigation officer a young man of twenty-three, of outstanding navigational ability and a sense of location amounting almost to \"second sight\". His name was Bligh, to be known the world over in years to come as Bligh of the Bounty. Cook\'s mission was to look for a possible northern sea route between Europe and Asia. In 1778 he became the first know European to reach the Hawaiian Islands. Later in 1778 Cook sailed up the northwest coast of North America, and was the first European to land on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. All summer they explored the coast from Oregon northwards, through the Bering Strait, right up to Icy Cape, but there was no sign of an ice-free north-east passage; and Captain Cook decided to return to Hawaii in the Sandwich Islands. On February 14, 1779 Cook was stabbed to death by Hawaiian natives while investigating a theft of a boat by an islander. The expedition arrived back in England in October of 1780. Cook will always be remembered as a competent navigator, commander, and explorer, who endured numerous hardships in seeking new discoveries and yet cared deeply for those he commanded.

Date: 1784 ( undated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 38,1 x 24,7

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the image.

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