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Lot 1973 SESSION 8 (2.30PM TUESDAY 31ST AUGUST) Documents
Estimate $350
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CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE LITHOGRAPH, A Native of Otaheite, in the Dress of his Country, (approx 20.5x26.5cm), by S. Parkinson, engraved by R.B. Godfrey Sc., being plate 3 from Sydney Parkinson's expedition journal, 'A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, the Endeavour', first published posthumously in 1773, matted and framed under glass (approx 40.5x47cm). Foxing on print, otherwise very fine.
Sydney Parkinson was an artist and botanical illustrator hired by Joseph Banks to be a member of Captain Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific in 1968. He died at sea aboard the Endeavour in 1771.
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