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armament, ethnographic: club
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Views in the South Seas... A sailing canoe of Otahaite (Print)
An Offering before Capt Cook, in the Sandwich Islands (before title) (Print)
Views in the South Seas... The Plantain Tree in the Island of Cracatoa (Print)
Views in the South Seas... The Resolution beating through the ice with the Discovery in the most eminent danger in the distance (Print)
Views in the South Seas... Boats of the Friendly Islands (Print)
Views in the South Seas... The Narta, or sledge for Burdens in Kamtchatka (Print)
The Landing at Tanna one of the New Hebrides (Print)
Views in the South Seas.... A View in the Island of Pulo Condore (Print)
To the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. This Plate representing the departures of Captains Gore and King, accompanied by major Behm Governor of Kamschtka, with the affectionate taking leave of the Governor's Lady and the Inhabitanta of Bol and St Paul, in Kamschatka, the 29th of April 1779, is respectfully dedicated by... de la Garde (Print)
To the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty of Great Britain. This Plate representing the arrival of the Discovery and Resolution, under Captains Clerke and Gore, and St Peter and St Paul, in Kamschatka, the 29th of April 1779, is respectfully dedicated by... de la Garde (Print)
'To His most Sacred Majesty George III... this view of Morea one of the Friendly Islands in the South Seas is..dedicated... by... Thos Martyn' ('Resolution' and 'Discovery' at Moorea [Eimeo]) (Drawing)
'View of Adventure Bay, Van Dieman's [sic] Land, New Holland' (Drawing)
'View of Matavai-Bay in the Island Otaheite [Tahiti]' (Drawing)
'Continuation of the coast, from Providence Harbour, in the Island Unalashka....' (Drawing)
'Schumagin Isles, near Turnagain [River, N.W. coast of America]' (Drawing)
'View of Middleburg [sic: Eua], one of the Friendly Isles' (Drawing)
'View of the Rock & the adjacent country at the entrance of the Bay of Awatchska on Kamtschatka' (Drawing)
'Views of Atowa, one of the Sandwich Islands' and 'Atowi the King's Mount: over the land' (annotated on reverse) (Drawing)
Sulphur Island [two views on one sheet] (Drawing)
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