New Zealand 1774 by Capt. Cook & Hawkesworth 1st French edition important map Smuttynose Island Almost literally one-of-a-kind artifact from

Almost literally one-of-a-kind artifact from the mid 1500's

A Brief Account of Many Prosecutions Of the People call'd Quakers in the Exechequer

Note the huge fictitious interior chain Mountains of the Moon across the top of 'Unknown Parts" within central Africa

(Ancient Africa / Barbary / Libya / Egypt / Arabia / Mountains of the Moon / etc

3 folding brochures

New Zealand 1774 by Capt. Cook & Hawkesworth 1st French edition important map Smuttynose Island Almost literally one-of-a-kind artifact fromCarte de la Nle. Zelande visitee en 1769 et 1770 par le Lieutenant J. Cook, Commandant de L'Endeavour Vasseau de se Majeste. (Old Maps, 18th Century Maps, Oceania, New Zealand, North Island, South Island, Cook Strait). Issued 1774, Paris by Hawkesworth. Map by Benard. Important 18th century engraved map, the first French edition of 1774 taken from the 1773 English version. The first complete map of the islands, and the single most important map of