1786 Bowen Antique Map 3 x Cook Islands & 1 x Society Island - Cooks Voyage 1777 Cooks Voyages from the crude and fanciful

from the crude and fanciful depictions of the early sixteenth century to the first accurate maps published in the mid-nineteenth century

In the West

This fine original cooper-plate engraved antique print of a Human Sacrifice at the Utu-ai-mahurau Marae on Tahiti witnessed by Captain Cooks during his 3rd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1777 was published in Thomas Bankes 1787 edition of A New

His style shows no trace of Italian influence

1786 Bowen Antique Map 3 x Cook Islands & 1 x Society Island - Cooks Voyage 1777 Cooks Voyages from the crude and fancifulTitle : Wanooaette Isl; Wateeoo I; Mangeea Island Toobouai Island Size: 13 1 2in x 9 1 2in (345mm x 240mm) Ref #: 21697 Date : 1786 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique map of three of the Cook Islands, Takutea (Wanooaette) Atiu (Wateeoo) and Mangaia (Mangeea) and a 4th map of the Island of Tubuai (Toobouai) in French Polynesia near Tahiti, visited by Captain Cook in HMS Resolution & Discovery in