£30 Kerguelen Islands, Desolation Islands
1788
Ref: 2016g
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THIRD VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
Four charts on the plate titled:
TERRE DE KERGUELEN, Appellée par M. Cook,
ISLE DE LA DÉSOLATION.
Par M. Bonne, Ingénieur - Hydrographe de la Marine.
ILES découvertes par Mr. Marion du Fresne en 1772: appellées par M. Cook en 1776, ISLES DU PRINCE EDOUARD.
PLAN DU PORT PALLISER dans la Terre DE KERGUELEN.
PLAN DU HAVRE DE NÖEL dans la Terre DE KERGUELEN.
Décl. 27° 45' E.1777.
Imprints outside border:
Cook, 3e. Voyage. 140
Bonne Fil. del. | André sculp.
Drawn and published by French cartographer Rigobert Bonne (1727-1794) in his Atlas Encyclopedique...Paris 1788.
Bonne's maps mark a departure from the decorative maps of the 17th and 18th century towards a more accurate and detailed topography.
This chart shows the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean officially discovered by French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Tremarec in February 1772 and visited by Captain Cook in December 1776 (the map incorrectly giving 1772).
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