Cook's map of Adventure Bay

COOK, Captain James.

Plan of Adventure Bay on Van Diemens Land.
Dublin: The United Company of Booksellers, c.1784, 270 x 220mm

A chart of Adventure Bay, Tasmania, divided into two with a detailed coastal profile in the upper register. Cook circumnavigated Tasmania and much of the Australian Coast in April 1770, at this time he was also the first European to observe the native Aboriginals. The maps form a rare Irish pirate edition of the account of his first voyage.

The United Company of Booksellers was a loose conglomeration of publishers. The National Library of Canada states the 1784 Dublin edition was published by H.Chamberlaine and 26 others!


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