1786 Bowen Antique Map 3 x Cook Islands & 1 x Society Island - Cooks Voyage 1777 Cooks Voyages There is no evidence in

There is no evidence in the expedition\'s records or French governmental archives to suggest that there were political objectives in this circumnavigation but

His style shows no trace of Italian influence

from the crude and fanciful depictions of the early sixteenth century to the first accurate maps published in the mid-nineteenth century

This fine original cooper-plate engraved antique print of a Human Sacrifice at the Utu-ai-mahurau Marae on Tahiti witnessed by Captain Cooks during his 3rd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1777 was published in Thomas Bankes 1787 edition of A New

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1786 Bowen Antique Map 3 x Cook Islands & 1 x Society Island - Cooks Voyage 1777 Cooks Voyages There is no evidence inTitle : Wanooaette Isl; Wateeoo I; Mangeea Island Toobouai Island Size: 13 1 2in x 9 1 2in (345mm x 240mm) Ref #: 21697 Date : 1786 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique map of three of the Cook Islands, Takutea (Wanooaette) Atiu (Wateeoo) and Mangaia (Mangeea) and a 4th map of the Island of Tubuai (Toobouai) in French Polynesia near Tahiti, visited by Captain Cook in HMS Resolution & Discovery in