Tahiti. Tupapow in Otaheite. Mourner. Bread-fruit Tree. Cook engraving c1780.

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View of the Houfe or Shed called Tupapow in Otaheite, under which the Dead are deposited. Alfo the drefs of the principal Mourner, and a Man climbing the Bread-fruit Tree.

Original rare copperplate engraving for Hawkesworth's Account of Captain Cook's Voyages, published in London circa 1773.

The British Admiralty approved publication of Cook's Endeavour journal in 1773, together with the journals of Joseph Banks and earlier Pacific explorers in a volume edited by John Hawkesworth. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by order of His present Majesty, for Making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron,Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook became one of the most popular works of the eighteenth century.

There is some slight age marking of this page (priced accordingly). Clipped half page paper size is approximately 145 x 240mm (5.75 x 9.5 inches)