Kaart van de haven van Tongataboo

Reference: S19816
Author James COOK
Year: 1774 ca.
Zone: Tonga
Printed: Venice
Measures: 415 x 230 mm
€125.00

Reference: S19816
Author James COOK
Year: 1774 ca.
Zone: Tonga
Printed: Venice
Measures: 415 x 230 mm
€125.00

Description

Map of the atlas is the report by James Hawkesworth "Cartes et figures des voyages entreprise par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique pou fair des découvertes dans l'Hémisphère southern exécutes par Byron, Carteret, Wallis and Cook dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, Le Swallow & Endeavour "published in multiple editions of the English, French, Dutch and Italian.

Map of the harbour of Tongataboo, one of the Tonga Islands.

James COOK (1728 - 1779)

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.

James COOK (1728 - 1779)

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.