CHART of the ISLANDS discovered in the Neighbourhood of OTAHEITE, in the Course of several Voyages round the World, MADE BY the Capns. Byron, Wallis, Carteret, & Cooke, in the Years, 1765, 1767, 1769.

An interesting chart of French Polynesia with Tahiti named Wallis’s King Georges Island. The chart contains information supplied to Capt. Cook by native Tahitian navigators on his First voyage. It is showing Byron’s, Wallis’s, Carteret’s and Cook’s tracts. The publication is described as ‘an account of the voyages undertaken by the 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, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor. Drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; by John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In three volumes. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. London: printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCLXXIII.’

Very good condition, some light offsetting and a crease along a vertical fold.