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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Quadrupede nommé Kanguroo, trouvé sur la Côte de la N.le Hollande.
[From a painting by George Stubbs] Godefroi dir.
[Paris: c.1777.]
Engraving. Sheet 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½"). Folded as issued.
A French edition of the first engraving of a kangaroo, which originally appeared in 1773, in Hawkesworth's Official Account of Cook's First Voyage. Although it shows the kangaroo in a landscape it is based on a painting by George Stubbs, executed from a skin in London on the commission of Joseph Banks, the botanist on the voyage. This version was engraved for the first French edition of Hawkesworth, 'Relation des voyages..' published 1774, but this example comes from a volume of Abbé Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages', c.1777.
Lennox-Boyd: Stubbs 363.
[Ref: 41912] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
[From a painting by George Stubbs] Godefroi dir.
[Paris: c.1777.]
Engraving. Sheet 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½"). Folded as issued.
A French edition of the first engraving of a kangaroo, which originally appeared in 1773, in Hawkesworth's Official Account of Cook's First Voyage. Although it shows the kangaroo in a landscape it is based on a painting by George Stubbs, executed from a skin in London on the commission of Joseph Banks, the botanist on the voyage. This version was engraved for the first French edition of Hawkesworth, 'Relation des voyages..' published 1774, but this example comes from a volume of Abbé Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages', c.1777.
Lennox-Boyd: Stubbs 363.
[Ref: 41912] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
Cession de L'Isle d'Otahiti au Capitaine Wallis par la Reine Obéréa.
Godefroi dir.
[Paris: c.1777.]
Fine engraving. Sheet 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½"). Folded as issued.
After initial hostilities in 1767 Samuel Wallis established cordial relations with 'Oberea' (Purea), a local chieftain who they mistook for queen of Tahiti. Two years later Captain Cook also visited Purea, on his First Voyage. This scene was copied for the first French edition of Hawkesworth, 'Relation des voyages..' published 1774, but this example comes from a volume of Abbé Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages', c.1777.
[Ref: 41916] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Godefroi dir.
[Paris: c.1777.]
Fine engraving. Sheet 235 x 190mm (9¼ x 7½"). Folded as issued.
After initial hostilities in 1767 Samuel Wallis established cordial relations with 'Oberea' (Purea), a local chieftain who they mistook for queen of Tahiti. Two years later Captain Cook also visited Purea, on his First Voyage. This scene was copied for the first French edition of Hawkesworth, 'Relation des voyages..' published 1774, but this example comes from a volume of Abbé Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages', c.1777.
[Ref: 41916] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)