Tahiti Island of Huaheine, and House of God. c1773

by Cook, Captain James

View in the Ifland of Huaheine, and of the Ewharra-no-Eatua, or House of God, antique print.

Original rare copperplate engraving c1773. (The original wash and watercolour drawing of this scene by John James Barralet was done in 1772) for Hawkesworth's Account of Captain Cook's Voyages, published in London circa 1773.

The British Admiralty approved publication of Cook's Endeavour journal in 1773, together with the journals of Joseph Banks and earlier Pacific explorers in a volume edited by John Hawkesworth. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by order of His Present Majesty, for Making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook became one of the most popular works of the eighteenth century.

As is to be expected, there is slight extremity soiling. Clipped half page paper size approx. 145 x 240mm (5.75 x 9.5 inches) (Priced appropriately)