Sighting of a kangaroo by James Cook Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Landscape view of York city

Landscape view of York city wall

Plate 21 for the paper 'Sur un moyen de donner la Direction aux machines aerostatiques'

the discharge of one's moral duty

by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac (1786-1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857) (Paris

View of the tomb of Thomas Sutton

Sighting of a kangaroo by James Cook Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Landscape view of York cityThe first sighting of a kangaroo (or wallaby) by Lieutenant James Cook and the sailors of the Endeavour expedition, June 1770: 'it was of a light mouse colour, and in size and shape very much resembling a greyhound'. Illustration from An account of the voyages for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (London, 1773). Original: engraving. 1773