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Rare c.18th engraving from the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage of two waka huia carved chests, one shown with its lid open.
From Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,..
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