Benard dir.
[Paris: c.1777.]
Fine engraving. 215 x 350mm (8½ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate lower left by binder, folded as issued.
Samuel Wallis (1728-95) and his ship, HMS Dolphin under attack in Matavi bay of Tahiti, June 1767. Wallis was ill, so Lieutenant Tobias Furneaux went ashore and claimed the Island for Britain, calling it 'King George the Third's Island'. 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: 41913] £220.00
[Paris: c.1777.]
Fine engraving. 215 x 350mm (8½ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate lower left by binder, folded as issued.
Samuel Wallis (1728-95) and his ship, HMS Dolphin under attack in Matavi bay of Tahiti, June 1767. Wallis was ill, so Lieutenant Tobias Furneaux went ashore and claimed the Island for Britain, calling it 'King George the Third's Island'. 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: 41913] £220.00