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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

£225

[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

£350

[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

£95

[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

£150

[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

£95