Title : Plan De La Baye De Awatska, Sur le Cote Orinetale Du Kamtschatka [with inset map--Plan Du Havre De St. Pierre et St. Paul]
Details: Detailed map of the Bay of Awatska, with soundings , notes and topographical details. Inset map of the Bay of St. Peter and St. Paul, with similar details. From the first French edition of the Official Account of Cook's Third Voyage.
Dimensions : 31 cm x 26cm. ( 11 1/2" x 10" Inches )
Condition : Beautiful Original Map NOT a reproduction some wear some stains please at detailed pictures for condition report
Date : 1788
Cartographer/Mapmaker: William Bligh (1754-1817) Bligh was a naval officer and governor. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century. William was entered in H.M.S. Monmouth on July 1762, was paid off the following February, and joined the navy on 27 July 1770. Since there was no vacancy for midshipmen, he was rated 'able-seaman', but he messed with the former and officially became one in February 1771. On 17 March 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution, on James Cook's third voyage. On the voyage made a number of the charts.
Details: Detailed map of the Bay of Awatska, with soundings , notes and topographical details. Inset map of the Bay of St. Peter and St. Paul, with similar details. From the first French edition of the Official Account of Cook's Third Voyage.
Dimensions : 31 cm x 26cm. ( 11 1/2" x 10" Inches )
Condition : Beautiful Original Map NOT a reproduction some wear some stains please at detailed pictures for condition report
Date : 1788
Cartographer/Mapmaker: William Bligh (1754-1817) Bligh was a naval officer and governor. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century. William was entered in H.M.S. Monmouth on July 1762, was paid off the following February, and joined the navy on 27 July 1770. Since there was no vacancy for midshipmen, he was rated 'able-seaman', but he messed with the former and officially became one in February 1771. On 17 March 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution, on James Cook's third voyage. On the voyage made a number of the charts.
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