EditorialBonhams Knightsbridge's Film, Rock and Pop sale on 17 November where the Yamaha G3 acoustic grand piano, used on records by Paul Weller, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Ash, The Manic Street Preachers and, most famously, Oasis's (What's The Story)
EditorialCloak that the Hawaiian chiefs wore as a symbol of their high social status. Feather and vegetale fibre. Polynesia. Hawaiian Islands, United States. Last third of the 18th century. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.
EditorialMuraena polyzona, Print, The barred moray (Echidna polyzona), also known as the banded moray, the dark-banded eel, the girdled moray, the girdled reef eel, the many banded moray eel, the ringed moray, the ringed reef moray, the striped moray and the ze...
EditorialBranta rubidiceps, Print, The black geese of the genus Branta are waterfowl belonging to the true geese and swans subfamily Anserinae. They occur in the northern coastal regions of the Palearctic and all over North America, migrating to more southernly...
EditorialChaetodon ephippium, Print, The Saddle Butterflyfish, Chaetodon ephippium, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae). It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from Sri Lanka and the Cocos-Keeling Islands to the Hawaiian, Marquesan and T...
EditorialAprion virescens, Print, The green jobfish, Aprion virescens, is a species of snapper native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the African coast to the Hawaiian Islands. This species inhabits various reef environments at depths from near the surfac...
EditorialHawaiian natives offer a sacrificial pig to Captain James Cook before 12 priests and a wooden idol in the sacred Orono house. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peo...
EditorialAn offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands. Drawn by John Webber; the landscape engraving by Samuel Middiman; the figures by John Hall. A scene in Hawaii in 1778. Hawaiian men are seated on the ground around four European men, and are offe...
Editorial[Whole drawing] View of a 'morai' or burying place at Atooi [Kauai, Hawaiian Islands], which includes a long house, and tall open-work tower within a walled enclosure. Described in Captain Cook's journal on 21 January 1778. Drawings executed by John We...
EditorialTereoboo (Kalaniopuu), King of Owyhee (Hawaii), bringing presents to Captain Cook. The picture shows a Hawaiian canoe with "crab-claw" and many oarsmen, carrying Kalaniopuu, the Hawaiian chief, to visit Captain Cook aboard the 'Resolution'. The main c...
EditorialView of Karakakooa in Owhyhee. Drawn by John Webber and engraved by W.Byrne. Shows the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, with Hawaiian canoes in foreground. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Mill...
EditorialHawaiian natives offer a sacrificial pig to Captain James Cook before 12 priests and a wooden idol in the sacred Orono house. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peo...