1787 Bankes Antique Print View of the Islands of Tahiti - Cooks 3rd Voyage, 1777 Town Plans President of the Royal Society

President of the Royal Society and a friend and colleague of botanist Joseph Banks

And to the grave deshend I must

Also included is a smaller (20in x 14in 510mm x 360mm) original reference map that came with the 4 sheet publication

which takes up most of the plate

1787 Bankes Antique Print View of the Islands of Tahiti - Cooks 3rd Voyage, 1777 Town Plans President of the Royal SocietyTitle : View of the Islands of Otaheite Size: 9 1 2in x 7 1 2in (240mm x 190mm) Ref #: 31793 Date : 1787 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original cooper plate engraved antique print of Matavai Bay and the Island of Tahiti during Captain Cooks visit to the Island during his 3rd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in 1777 was published in Thomas Bankes 1787 edition of A New, Royal and Authentic System of Universal Geography,