SET OF 4 PLATES OF CAPTAIN WALLIS ARRIVING IN TAHITI COOKE 1801

THE NATIVES OF OTAHEITE ATTACKING CAPT WALLIS + 3 OTHER PLATES

£50

The set of 4 plates depicting Capt Wallis arriving in Otaheite Tahiti. In June 1767, the expedition made the first European landfall on Tahiti, which he named "King George the Third's Island"

Samuel Wallis (23 April 1728 - 21 January 1795 in London) was a British naval officer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean who made the first recorded visit by a European navigator to Tahiti.

The plates come from Universal history by George Cooke.

Good original copper engravings