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1. Add MS 7085, f 6

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Add MS 7085, f 6
Title:
'A Plan of King Georges Island or Otaheite', by James Cook, surveyor, and Isaac Smith, draughtsman
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Date: [April – July 1769] Scale: 1 inch = 1 mile (1:72,960) Title inscription: ‘A PLAN OF KING GEORGES ISLAND OR OTAHEITE. BY LIEUTENANT I. COOK 1769 Discover’d by Captn Wallis the 19th June 1767’. Linear scale below title: ‘A SCALE OF MILES’ (8 inches = 8 miles)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1769-Jul 1769
Extent:
1 map

2. Add MS 7085, f 7

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Add MS 7085, f 7
Title:
'A Plan of King George’s Island or Otaheite [with Moorea]', by James Cook, surveyor, and Isaac Smith, draughtsman
Scope & Content:
Title: Location: Otaheite [Tahiti]. York Island [Moorea] Date: [April – July 1769] Scale: 4 inches = 12 miles (1:218,880) Title inscription (upper right): ‘A PLAN OF KING GEORGES ISLAND OR OTAHEITE LYING IN THE SOUTH SEA BY LIEUTENANT. I. COOK. Discoverd by Capt. Wallis the 19th June 1767.’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1769-Jul 1769
Extent:
1 map

3. Add MS 7085, f 8

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Add MS 7085, f 8
Title:
Four charts and drawings of Tahiti, by James Cook, surveyor, Isaac Smith, draughtsman, and Charles Praval, after Sydney Parkinson and Herman Diedrich Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: Tahiti Date: 1769-1771 Four charts and drawings of Tahiti on a single sheet of paper, linen backed. a) 'A View of part of the West side of Georges Island taken from the Ship at Anchor in Royal Bay', by Charles Praval, after Sydney Parkinson. Drawing frame: 170 x 595 mm. Attributed b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1771
Extent:
1 folio (2 maps and 2 drawings)

4. Add MS 15508

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Add MS 15508
Title:
DRAWINGS, in Indian ink, illustrative of Capt. Cook's first voyage, 1768 -1770, chiefly relating to Otaheite and New Zealand, by A. Buchan, John F. Miller, and others.
Scope & Content:
John Frederic Miller: Drawings in Captain Cook's first voyage: 1768-1770. Captain James Cook: Drawings of headlands, etc, in his first voyage: 1768-1770. Alexander Buchan: Drawings of headlands, etc., in Capt. Cook's first voyage: 1768-1770. All the items after folios 1-9 in this volume were ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1768-1775
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 15508, f 3

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Add MS 15508, f 3
Title:
'Otaheite View at the Back of Point Venus towards Pithas Long House', drawing by Sydney Parkinson
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Title inscribed in pencil in Banks’s hand on mount below the sheet. Pencil annotation in a later hand, within framing lines, lower right: ‘drawn by S. Parkinson’. The view closely resembles ‘A View round the Point at the back of the Encampment, Tahiti’, sketch by H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

6. Add MS 15508, f 4

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Add MS 15508, f 4
Title:
'Tree on One Tree Hill. Otaheite', drawing by John James Barralet
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Matavai Bay, Tahiti] Signed: ‘J. Barralet’ (on drawing below tree). Title inscribed in pencil on sheet below the drawing. Pencil inscription: ‘See pl. 2 in Hawksworth’ (below drawing lower right). Second version by Barralet of the original drawing by Sydney Parkinson (Bri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1772
Extent:
1 drawing

7. Add MS 15508, f 5

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Add MS 15508, f 5
Title:
'Fort Venus Otaheite', drawing by Charles Praval, after Herman Spöring
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Title inscribed in pencil, in Banks’s hand, on sheet below the drawing: ‘Fort Venus Otaheite’. Pencil inscription in a later hand: ‘Drawn by Lieut. J. Cook See Add. 7085.8’ (lower right). Attribution of drawing to Praval discussed in Joppien and Smith (1985-1987), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1771-Jul 1771
Extent:
1 drawing

8. Add MS 15508, f 9

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Add MS 15508, f 9
Title:
'Otaheite: Dancing girl, and Chief mourner', drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: Otaheite [Tahiti] Pencil inscriptions: ‘Otaheite’ (top centre); ‘Dancing Girl’ and ‘Chief Mourner’ (top, above the drawn figures). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, now recognised as Tupaia (Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s sketchbook’, Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1769-Aug 1769
Extent:
1 drawing

9. Add MS 15508, f 11

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Add MS 15508, f 11
Title:
Musicians of Tahiti, drawing by Tupaia
Scope & Content:
Location: Tahiti Numbered ‘11’ (top right). Drawing by an artist previously identified as ‘The Artist of the Chief Mourner’, now recognised as Tupaia (Keith Vincent Smith, ‘Tupaia’s sketchbook’, British Library eJournal, 2005: http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/pdf/article10.pdf).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1770
Extent:
1 drawing

10. Add MS 37194

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Add MS 37194
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. XIII. (ff. 659). June, 1847-Dec. 1851. includes: ff. 1, 9, 16, 51, 61 William Empson, editor of the 'Edinburgh Review': Letters to C. Babbage: 1847, n.d. f. 4 Sir William Robert Grove, man of science and judge: Letters to C. Babbage: 1847-1869. ff. 5, 39, 41, 57, 72, 98, 100, 101,133, 172...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Jun 1847-Dec 1851
Extent:
1 item