Antique Maps of New Zealand

[Miniature map of New Zealand]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles de Salomon.

Paris, 1683. 150 x 100mm. Coloured.
Miniature map of the Solomon Islands, here shown attached to New Zealand as mapped by Abel Tasman in 1642. Mapping of the area was not improved for nearly 130 years, when Captain Cook visited New Zealand in 1770.
MALL0116

[Early print of a Maori Canoe]

Capt. James Cook.
[New Zealand War Canoe.]

London, c.1773. 240 x 550mm. Binding folds, narrow lateral margins with a little staining.
Engraving of a Maori war waka (canoe) from a watercolour by John James Barralet, which was based on the sketch by Sydney Parkinson, the botanical artist on Cook's First Voyage (1768-1771), who died on the return leg. In the background is Gable End Foreland. The original version of this print appeared in the Official Account of Cook's First Voyage, edited by John Hawkesworth, also without a title. This example has no engraver's name either.
COOK0020

[Depiction of a coastal arched rock, New Zealand]

W. Hodges.
Village fortifé bâti un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande.

Paris, c.1785. 230 x 185mm.
A view of a coastal arched rock found on New Zealand, with a fortified village on top. The plate was engraved by Godefroy after William Hodges, the official artist on Cook's Second Voyage, for a French edition of the Official Account.
HODG0005

[Portraits of Maori Chiefs and a War Canoe]

W. Hodges.
Heads of New Zealand Chiefs Curiously Tatowed. A New Zealand War Canoe.

London, c.1778. 200 x 290mm.
Portraits of two Maori chiefs with facial tattoos and a depiction of a war canoe. These were drawn by William Hodges, the offical artist on Captain Cook's second voyage around the world and originally published in the Official Account.
HODG0007

[Waterspouts seen by Captain Cook near New Zealand]

Benard.
Trombes de Mer auprès de la Nouvelle Zélande.

Paris, c.1785. 240 x 385mm.
During his Second Voyage, Cook and his crew encountered waterspouts off the coast of New Zealand, one passing within 50 yards of the 'Resolution'. Engraved by Benard for a French edition of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0012

[Depiction of a Maori Family]

Capt. James Cook.
Famille dans le Baye Dusky (Obscure) de la Nouvelle Zélande.

Paris, c.1785. 230 x 250mm. Coloured.
A Maori family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand, engraved by Benard for a French edition of Cook's Voyages.
COOK0017

[Early print of a Maori Canoe]

Capt. James Cook.
Pirogue de Guerre de la Nouvelle Zelande.

Paris, c.1785. 235 x 360mm.
View of a Maori war canoe. Engraved by le Veau for an account of Cook's Voyages as included Prevost's 'Histoire des Voyages'.
COOK0018

[Depiction of a arched rock, New Zealand]

W. Hodges.
Vue d'un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande.

Paris, c.1785. 230 x 185mm.
A view of an arched rock found on New Zealand, engraved by Demouchy after William Hodges, the official artist on Cook's Second Voyage, for a French edition of the Official Account.
HODG0004

[View of a Hippah, a New Zealand Village]

Alexander Hogg.
A Fortified Town, or Village, Called a Hippah, built on a Perforated Rock, at Tolaga, In New Zealand.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 220 x 345mm.
A view from Cook's Second Voyage.
HOGG0004

[Depiction of a tui]

W. Hodges.
Poe-Bird, New-Zeeland.

London, W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1777. 220 x 180mm.
The New Zealand tui, named by Cook the poi-bird, He wrote: 'Under its throat hang two little tufts of curled, snow-white feathers, called its poies, which being the Otaheitean word for ear-rings, occasioned our giving the name to the bird, which is not more remarkable for the beauty of its plumage than for the sweetness of its note. The flesh is also most delicious, and was the greatest luxury the woods afforded us'. William Hodges was the official artist on Cook's Second Voyage.
HODG0003

[View of a Maori War Canoe]

W. Hodges.
War Canoe of the New Zealanders in the South Pacific Ocean.

London, c.1800. 160 x 210mm. Some spotting.
A Maori war canoe, engraved by Grainger after William Hodges, the offical artist on Captain Cook's second voyage around the world.
HODG0002

[A New Zealand flower]

William Curtis.
6597. [Calceolaria Sinclairii.]

London: L, Reeve & Co., 1881. Lithograph with original colour. Sheet 230 x 150mm, with 2pp. of text.
A plant native to New Zealand, where it was discovered by Dr Andrew Sinclair, a former Colonial Secretary who drowned on a botanic expedition in 1861. Calceolaria, are also called Lady's purse, Slipper flower and Pocketbook flower, are normally found in South America. Published in 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine'.
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