1787 Bankes Antique Print of The Tahitian Fleet - Capt Cooks 3rd Voyage in 1777 Australia/Oceania as admiration of the beauty

as admiration of the beauty of the land was joined by a concern to exploit it

La Boussole and L Astrolabe (Commandant de Langle)

Size: 27 1/2in x 20 1/2in (700mm x 520mm)

the Bailies and Council "ordains ane tack to be wrytten and subscryvit in favors of Sir James Turnor

Thomas Jefferys was such a man

1787 Bankes Antique Print of The Tahitian Fleet - Capt Cooks 3rd Voyage in 1777 Australia/Oceania as admiration of the beautyTitle : View of the Fleet of Otaheite Size: 9 1 2in x 7 1 2in (240mm x 190mm) Ref #: 21525 1 Date : 1787 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original cooper plate engraved antique print of Matavai Bay and the Island of Tahiti during Captain Cooks visit to the Island during his 3rd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1777 was published in Thomas Bankes 1787 edition of A New, Royal and Authentic System of Universal Geography,