The Great World Maps
The Voyages of Captain Cook
Captain Cook's voyages, traced round the world.
- Map
- Algemeene kaart van de ontdekkingen van kapit. J. Cook
- Mapmaker
- Cornelis van Baarsel, after Henry Roberts
- Date
- 1780 to 1796
- Held by
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
This general chart of the discoveries of Captain James Cook traces his voyages across the whole world. Cornelis van Baarsel engraved it for Dutch readers after Henry Roberts, a mariner. A finding grid and a scale of degrees run around the edges, and a legend at the lower right explains the tracks. The Pacific, which earlier maps in this collection fill with guesses, is here crossed and re-crossed by routes that were sailed. A Dutch reader of the 1780s could follow Cook across every ocean with a finger.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
