1787 Bankes Antique Print View of Nomuka Island, Tonga - Cooks Voyages in 1777 Atlas is a small uninhabited island

is a small uninhabited island 21 kilometres northwest of Atiu in the southern Cook Islands

This original copper-plate engraved map by Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage was engraved in 1787 - dated in the title - and was published in the 1787 edition of Jean-Jacques Barthelemy famous Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece or Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece in 4 volumes

Indian tribes

They are among the most isolated places on Earth

chief of Pueu

1787 Bankes Antique Print View of Nomuka Island, Tonga - Cooks Voyages in 1777 Atlas is a small uninhabited islandTitle : View in Anamooka and the Inhabitants Size: 14in x 9in (355mm x 230mm) Ref #: 21455 Date : 1787 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original cooper plate engraved antique print of a view of the Island of Nomuka, a small island in the southern part of the Ha apai islands, in the Kingdom of Tonga, during Captain Cooks 3rd Voyage of discovery to the South Seas in 1777 was published in Thomas Bankes 1787 edition of A New, Royal