The painting of Matavai Bay provides a particularly good image of the place in Tahiti to which Cook returned on all his voyages.

This chair once belonged to Joseph Banks and was used by him on board Endeavour

A Chart of the Banks of Newfoundland, Drawn from a Great Number of Hydrographical Surveys

In 2022 we purchased at auction a pocket compass which belonged to a young midshipman on Cook’s second voyage.  It had belonged to...