Item details: Isles de Wallis/ I. Turtle/ I. des Cocos/ I. des Traitres/ Palmerston I/ I. Sauvage/ I. D`Hervey/ Esquisse de la Baye Dusky, dans la Nouvelle Zeelande/ I. Pitcairn/ I. de Pasques
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£ 125.00
BONNE, Rigobert
Isles de Wallis/ I. Turtle/ I. des Cocos/ I. des Traitres/ Palmerston I/ I. Sauvage/ I. D`Hervey/ Esquisse de la Baye Dusky, dans la Nouvelle Zeelande/ I. Pitcairn/ I. de Pasques
Imprint: Paris, c.1780
235 x 345 mm., in good condition.
This map displays a collection of charts of bays & islands in the South Pacific. It was published in Bonne's 'Atlas Encyclopedique'. It includes nine recorded by Capt. James Cook on his first two circumnavigation's between 1768-1775. The islands included are clockwise from top left Isles de Wallis, Isle Turtle, Cocos Islands, Isle Sauvage, Isle de Hervey, Palmerston Is., Isle de Pasques or Easter Island, Pitcairn Island and lastly Dusky Bay and Resolution Island in New Zealand. Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 288.
Stock number:5748.