1784 Anderson Antique Coastal Views of the Admiralty Isles of PNG & Mindanao Islands Capt Cook 1767 South Pacific Plate size: 18in x Plate size: 18in x 13 1 2in (460mm x 345mm) This fine hand coloured original antique map of the Magellan Straits between the South American mainland and Tierra Del Fuego with major points discovered and remarked in a 9 point legend was engraved by Jacques Nicolas Bellin in 1753 the date is engraved in the title cartouche and was published in Antoine François Prevost's monumental 20 volume edition of L`Histoire Generale des Voyages published by Pierre de Hondt Cook opened the sealed orders which were additional instructions from the Admiralty for the second part of his voyage: to search the south Pacific for signs of the postulated rich southern continent of Terra Australis undertaken for making new discoveries