A piece of Captain Cook memorabilia - the HMS Resolution table - goes up for sale in Sydney, Australia, at the end of this month.

The Regency ceremonial library table, crafted in London about 1810, is inlaid with oak from Cook's last ship, the Resolution, and about 20 exotic woods from countries, including Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil and the Americas.

The table is being put up for sale at Goodmans Auctioneers on Monday by a collector in Sydney who acquired it from Alan Bond, the business tycoon whose empire foundered in the 1990s.

It was previously owned by the London dealer, Monty Bernard, until it was sold by Bonhams in 1986.

The sale comes at a time when Captain Cook memorabilia have been fetching remarkable prices.

A walking stick, said to be made from the spear that killed Cook recently went for nearly £150,000, more than ten times the estimate, despite international controversy over the way Cook died in Hawaii on St Valentine's Day, 1779.

It is estimated the HMS Resolution table will bring between £72,000 and £91,000.

The auctioneers expect telephone bids from various countries.