Benard Kerguelen Island

Benard.
Plan du Port Palliser dans la Terre de Kerguelen. Plan de Havre de Noël dans la Terre de Kerguelen.
Paris, c.1785. 180 x 240mm.
£39
Cook visited Kerguelen Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, in 1776, only four years after they were discovered by Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec, who claimed them for France. Engraved by Benard for a French edition of Cook's Voyages. BENA0011