Name: Pawn Stars: ASTRONOMICAL PRICE for Explorer's Map (Season 16) | History
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It exhibits the discoveries made by the British

Captain Cook was a really remarkable guy.

I mean, these were explorers finding new things.

So Captain Cook went all around the world and documented

everything, came back with drawings of the crazy animals,

to sell a 1785 James Cook discoveries chart.

He found the map in his attic when he was

of the first, like, scientific rockstars.

It was a huge problem about sailing back then.

It was really easy to figure out how north or south you were.

So basically, if you were going somewhere,

And literally, sometimes you wouldn't know if it's 2,000

actually developed a system to figure out longitude.

I believe he was the first one to map Australia,

And he discovered the Sandwich Isles, which is Hawaii.

DYLAN: The names and spelling are interesting.

As long as it sounded right, it was cool.

So in 1784, a series of books came out with everywhere

Of all those books, you have the coolest page of all the books.

Someone glued this whole thing right here.

I just want to make sure it's a first edition.

I'd like to have my buddy take a look at it.

I just want to make sure this is the map from those books.

RICK: Yes, we have "a general chart exhibiting

the discoveries made by Captain James Cook in his two

preceding voyages with the tracks of the ships

He was the one who went around the world three times.

He was attempting to claim parts of the world for England,

But this was England claiming that part of North America,

even though I don't think the Spanish would

This map is one of the ones from the second printing

There were three volumes that were the descriptive volumes,

and then an oversized volume that had the maps in them.

But it's got some condition issues that are fairly major.

You can see a lot of discoloration in here.

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Pawn Stars: ASTRONOMICAL PRICE for Explorer's Map (Season 16) | History

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