APDENT1
"Huttes des Sauvages de la Nouvelle Caledonie"(Implements and Huts in New Caledonia)
Original copper-plate engraving after Jacques-Julien Houtou de LaBillardiere(1755-1834), a naturalist and author
of the offical account of the Déntrecasteux Voyage. In May 1793, he arrived at the island of Vanikoro, which is part of the Santa Cruz group of islands.
D'Entrecasteaux thought he saw smoke signals from several elevated areas on the island, but was unable to investigate due to the dangerous reefs
surrounding the island and had to leave. He died two months later.Jacques Labillardière, attached to the expedition,
eventually returned to France and published his account,
Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse, in 1800.
It was not until 1826 that an Irish captain, Peter Dillon, found enough evidence to piece together the events of the tragedy.
In Tikopia (one of the islands of Santa Cruz), he bought some swords he had reason to believe had belonged to La Pérouse. He made enquiries,
and found that they came from nearby Vanikoro, where two big ships had broken up. Dillon managed to obtain a ship in Bengal, and sailed for
Vanikoro where he found cannon balls, anchors and other evidence of the remains of ships in water between coral reefs. He brought several of
these artifacts back to Europe, as did Dumont d'Urville in 1828. De Lesseps, the only member of the expedition still alive at the time, identified
them as all belonging to the Astrolabe. From the information Dillon received from the people on Vanikoro, a rough reconstruction could be made of
the disaster that struck La Pérouse, which was confirmed by the find and search of the shipwreck of the Boussole in 1964. In May 2005, the wreck was
formally identified as that of the Boussole.
Antoine-Raymond-Joseph de Bruni d'Entrecasteaux ~ Background
Published Paris 1800
Condition = Original condition on laid paper. Hand tinted.
Size of image = 39cm x 24cm
Price AUD$275
APDENT2
"Pirogue de L'Ile de Bouka/Pirouge des Asacides"
Original copper-plate engraving by Copia after Antoine-Louis Piron (1763-1819) who was the official draughtsman on the Reserche.
Bouka, or Buka, was named by Bouganville during his voyage (1766-1769)in 1768 after the name he thought the natives gave coconuts. Terre des Asacides became the Solomon islands.
Published Paris 1800
Condition = Original condition on laid paper. Uncoloured as published.
Size of image = 39cm x 25cm
Price AUD$255
APDENT3
"Effets des Habitans des ILes des Amis" (Anthropological studies of artifacts(woven baskets) of the Pacific Island, Iles des Amis)
Original copper-plate engraving by Louis Peree (b. 1769) after either Antoine-Louis Piron (1763-1819) or Jacques-Julien Houtou de LaBillardiere(1755-1834
Published Paris 1800
Condition = Original condition on laid paper, hand tinted
Size of image = 39cm x 24cm
Price AUD$225
APDENT4
"Effets des Habitans des ILes des Amis"(Anthropological studies of artifacts of the Pacific Island, Iles des Amis)
Original copper-plate engraving unattributed but probably after either Antoine-Louis Piron (1763-1819) or Jacques-Julien Houtou de LaBillardiere(1755-1834
Published Paris 1800
Condition = Original condition on laid paper. Uncoloured as printed.
Size of image = 39cm x 25cm
Price AUD$175
APDENT5
"Effets des Sauvages de la Nouvelle Caledonie" (Anthropological studies of artifacts of the Pacific Island of New Caledonia)
Original copper-plate engraving unattributed but probably after either Antoine-Louis Piron (1763-1819) or Jacques-Julien Houtou de LaBillardiere(1755-1834
Published Paris 1800
Condition = Original condition on laid paper. Uncoloured as printed.
Size of image = 39cm x 25cm
Price AUD$195
APCOOK1
Captain James Cook's Third Voyage
(1776-79)
"A Branch of the Breadfruit tree the principal support of the Natives of the Douth Sea Islands /A Gorget worn by the Naval and Military Officers in the South Sea Islands
Original copper-plate engraving by Roberts for Reverend Thomas Bankes, BANKES's New System of GEOGRAPHY
Published by Royal Authority after John Webber (1752-1793).
Webber was the young artist who accompanied Cook on his fatal third voyage.
Such images as these would have created quite a stiras in them the British public were able to se representation of life in these mysterious Pacific Islands.
They were printed by a number of publishers, primarily Alexander Hogg, and Bankses's New System of Geography.
(The words 'Breadfruit' and 'Bligh' were to become historically intertwined: in 1787 Captain William Bligh
sailed in the HMS Bounty to Tahiti to obtain Breadfruit trees when the fruit was needed for experiments to see if they were successful in feeding the slave population.
Before reaching their next destination, the Carribean, the infamous Mutiny broke out...)
Published by C. Cook,17 Paternoster Row,London c.1787-1790
Condition = Original condition on laid paper. Uncoloured as printed. Full plate mark in excellent condion. Usual age spots. Such double plates have been
cut i half in past years. This is a rare survivor.
Size of plate mark = 21cm x 32.5cm
Price AUD$175
