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

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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