1774 Hawkesworth Antique Print Queen Purea Surrender to Capt Wallis Tahiti, 1767 Military Plate size: - 11 1/2in

Plate size: - 11 1/2in x 9 1/2in (290mm x 245mm)

Paper size: - 15 1/2in x 10in (395mm x 255mm)

Santa Isabel islanders suffered attacks from blackbirding in the nineteenth century (the often brutal recruitment or kidnapping of labourers for the sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji)

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1774 Hawkesworth Antique Print Queen Purea Surrender to Capt Wallis Tahiti, 1767 Military Plate size: - 11 1/2inTitle : Cession de lisle D otahiti au Capitaine Wallis par la Reine Oberea (Surrender of the Island of Taahiti to Capt Wallis by Queen Obera) Size: 14in x 10in (365mm x 255mm) Ref #: 25925 Date : 1774 Condition: (A) Very Good Condition Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique print of Captain Samuel Wallis the first European to visit Tahiti in 1767 accepting surrender from Queen Purea (Oberea) of Tahiti, after the battle in