1778 Capt. Cook Antique Print Weapons Tools Hats from New Caledonia - Cook 1774 Portraits William Ernest Powell Giles 1835

William Ernest Powell Giles 1835 – 1897 best known as Ernest Giles

Plate size: - 7in x 5in (180mm x 130mm) each plate

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 – 1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveller

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The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror

1778 Capt. Cook Antique Print Weapons Tools Hats from New Caledonia - Cook 1774 Portraits William Ernest Powell Giles 1835Title : Ornemens et Armes de la Nouvelle Caledonie Size: 15in x 10in (380mm x 255mm) Ref #: 16362 Date : 1778 Condition: (A) Very Good Condition Description: This large original copper plate engraved antique print of various weapons, farming tools and ornaments from the New Caledonia Islands visited by Captain James Cook in September 1774, in HMS Resolution & Adventure, during his 2nd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas, was engraved by Robert