BENARD, ROBERT (ENGRAVER), AFTER PHILIP CARTERET (MAPMAKER).

Banc de Sable Dangereux... [on sheet with] Isles de Joseph Freewill [and] L'Extremité Méridionale de Mindanao...

A Paris. Chez Saillant et Nyon, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, [Chez] Panckoucke, Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins. 1774. Stock ID #174260

Engraved map on laid paper, 27.2 x 19.9cm, 26.5 x 22.2cm (sheet size), edge fold, slight marginal toning but in very good condition.

Map of the treacherous coastal waters, sandbars, submerged rocks and reefs surrounding Mindanao and the Joseph Freewill Islands (Mapia Atoll) in the Philippines, finely re-engraved for the French edition of Captain James Cook's First Voyage (1768-1771), "Relation des voyages...pour faire des decouvertes dans l'hemisphere meridional et successivement executes par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis & le capitaine Cook...".

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Price: $150.00 AU

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