VIEW OF SIR CHARLES SAUNDERS ISLAND, OSNABURG ISLAND, BOSCAWENS ISLAND

Code: 52407

Author: (Hawkesworth) / Alexander Hogg

Publisher: G.W.Anderson's :A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world : undertaken and performed by royal authority : containing a new, authentic, entertaining, instructive, full, and complete historical account of Captain Cook's first, second, third, and last voyages.

Date published: 1784-1786

French Polynesia. Copper engraving; later hand colouring. Overall size in off white fully conservation grade mount and back with decorative v grove : 46.8cms x 36.8cms; image size: 315mm x 211mm. Chart from pirate edition of Captain Cook's voyages originally published 1773. Cape Saunders, on the Otago coast of New Zealand, was named in Saunders' honour by Captain James Cook, who had served under Saunders in Canada. Good condition.