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VARGAS Y PONCE, José de
Relacion del último viage al Estrecho de Magallanes...
Ibarra Madrid, 1788. Quarto, with an engraved portrait of Magellan as frontispiece, four fine largefolding maps and four folding tables; contemporary sprinkled calf, sides bordered in gilt; a handsome copy. First edition of the first comprehensive study and the best early description of Patagonia and the Strait of Magellan, then as now an area of strategic and navigational significance. Vargas y Ponce's book gives the official account of the expedition by Antonio de Córdoba on the frigate Santa Maria de la Cabeza, sailing from Cádiz in 1785 with the specific aim of exploring parts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and of determining whether it was preferable to enter the Pacific by way of the Strait of Magellan or by way of Cape Horn. The large folding maps, fine and detailed, are based on observations made during the voyage.
Córdoba's exploration of the Strait of Magellan is accompanied here 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 Strait, with detailed sailing instructions, and describes the climate, indigenous peoples and natural history of the region.
An Appendix published five years later, and sometimes found bound with the main work, gave an account of a subsequent voyage to the area by Córdoba.
Chadenat, 552; Hill, p. 305; JCB, III, 3224; Navarrete, II, pp. 127-9; Palau, 352514 ('obra interesante y bien publicada').
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