E - 1785 Engraving - DEATH OF COOK- Hawaii Battle Scene

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...rare books at fair prices! For questions please e-mail us: Phone toll-free An Original Copper Engraving from Cook's Pacific Voyage. COOK, Captain James. Mort de Cook [Death of Cook]. A nice example of perhaps the most famous of all prints from Cook's Third Voyage, showing his death at the hands of the native Hawaiians at Kealakekua Bay on the island of Hawaii. Paris: Privilege du Roi, 1785. Copper Engraving. 23 cm x 37 cm (9 inches x 14.5 inches). Very Good Engraving. This is an Original Engraving from 1785. This is an engraving from the Paris 1785 First French Edition of "Troisieme Voyage de Cook." A Voyage To The Pacific Ocean, Undertaken, By Command Of His Majesty, For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisp Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majestys Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776-1780.On Cook's last expedition, undertaken primarily in search of a north-west passage, Christmas Island and the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands were discovered, and the monumental charting of the north west coast of America, from Oregon at 44( northward to Bering Strait at 70( (Icy Cape, Alaska), was accomplished. The British claim to Nootka was based to a large extent on these explorations. Cook discovered and named King George's (Nootka) and Prince William's Sound, as well as Cape read more

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