Britannia O-Tahiti Canoe plan War Canoes Tahiti Cook 1778
Title: Plan et coupe de la Britannia, Canot de Guerre a O-Tahiti. Plan of War Canoes Tahiti. Description: Tahitian war canoe, Old antique engraving of the Tahiti war Canoe, double connected with beams and bonded with coconut ropes.
This is an original Copper Engraving from the time of Captain Cook's Second Voyage, not a later 1800 edition. Origin one of the first editions of : Voyage das L’Hemisphere Austral, et autour du Monde, fait sur les Vaisseaux de Roi, L, Aventure & la Resolution… Ecrit par Jacques Cook, Commedant de la Resolution… (engraved plates and maps numbered almost half double-page or folding) Engraved by Robert Bernard.dir(ex) (First engraver after the sketches and paintings of locations by William Hodges he visited on that voyage with Cook)
Size: Sheet app.: 48 x 28.5 cm. 19 x 11.25 inches. Image app.: 45 x 23.5 cm. 17.75 x 9.25 inches. Condition: Fine strong engraving with folds as published, part border attached.
