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Scarce 18th century map of Hawaii after James Cook

Le Isole di Sandwich Delineate sulle Osservazioni Del Cap. Cook.

Rome, 1798. Original colour. 360 x 500mm.
Stock #:  17968

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A map of Hawaii with Cook's route around the islands marked. It features a decorative vignette of Cook about to be stabbed in the back, with his ship at anchor in the background. It was Issued in the scarce atlas, the 'Nuovo atlante geografico universale'; as the only decorated map based upon Cook's mapping of Hawaii it is also one of the most sought after.

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A good example.

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