This 1774 view and chart is of Más Afuera Island (now Alejandro Selkirk Island), encountered on a 1766 - 1769 British voyage of circumnavigation captained by Philip Carteret. It was engraved by Robert Benard and published in the 1774 French translation of John Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages , a very popular work which helped publicize British discoveries in the Pacific.
Approx 30cms by 17cms.
