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VARGAS Y PONCE, José de
Relacion del último viage al Estrecho de Magallanes...
Ibarra, 1788 - Madrid, 1793. Quarto, two volumes bound together; with an engraved portrait of Magellan as frontispiece, five fine large folding maps and five folding tables; a fine, crisp copy in contemporary Spanish marbled calf. The complete first edition in two volumes bound as one: an attractive copy of this handsome book in a good contemporary binding.
This is the best description of Patagonia and the Straits of Magellan, then as now an area of strategic and navigational significance. Vargas y Ponce's book gives 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). The large folding maps, fine and detailed, are all based on observations made during the Córdoba voyages.
Córdoba's exploration of the Straits of Magellan is accompanied by Vargas y Ponce's summary of the early explorations of the area, mainly from an examination of original manuscripts in the Spanish archives. He discusses various means of navigating the Straits, with detailed sailing instructions, and describes the climate, indigenous peoples and natural history of the region.
Hill, 1756; Navarrete, II, pp. 127-9; Palau, 352514-5 ('obra interesante y bien publicada').
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