Relacion del Ultimo Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes

[CORDOBA (A. de).] & VARGAS Y PONCE (Jose de).

Relacion del Ultimo Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes

de la Fragata de S.M. Santa Maria de la Cabeza en los anos de 1785 y 1786 extracto de todos los anteriores desde su descubrimiento impresos y MSS. [With:] Apendice a la relacion del Viage al Magellanes de la Fragata de Guerra Santa Maria de la Cabeza que contiene el de lost Paquebots Santa Casilda y Santa Eulalia para completar el Reconocimiento del Estrecho en los Anos de 1788 y 1789. Trabajado de Orden Superior.

First edition. Two volumes in one. Frontispiece portrait, five folding maps & four folding tables. Small 4to. Quarter contemporary calf with marbled paper boards, worn at corners and spine, with title label a little loose and tear at head of spine. The interior clean and fresh. With the armorial bookplate of William Cecil Chambers. xvi, 359; [ii], 128pp. Madrid, D. Joaquin Ibarra, 1788.

£3,500.00

[CORDOBA (A. de).] & VARGAS Y PONCE (Jose de).

Relacion del Ultimo Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes

The official account of the two expeditions made by Antonio de Córdoba to “ascertain the advisability of Spaniards continuing to use the Strait in voyages - the results indicated the negative. After these expeditions the Spanish trade routes were exclusively to east coast ports and then overland to the Pacific ports… “ (Hill).

Chadenat, 552; Hill, 1756; Leclerc, 1971; Sabin, 16765 & 1729.

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