Tahiti. Natives of Otaheite, attacking Captn. Wallis. Cook's 1773 expedition. c1780

by Cook, Captain James

Antique print, Natives of Otaheite attacking Captn. Wallis, the first Discoverer of that hospitable Island.

Rare antique engraving of a 1773 view from the Voyages of Captain Cook, published in London for Hawkesworth's Account of Captain Cook's Voyages, circa 1780.

The British Admiralty approved publication of Cook's first voyage, 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.

There is some slight age marking of this clipped half page; size approximately 145 x 240mm (5.75 x 9.5 inches)