Antique Map of Cordes Bay, Port Famine & Fortescue Bay – Patagonia, 1774

Name: Antique Map of Cordes Bay, Port Famine & Fortescue Bay – Patagonia, 1774
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12707-113
Price: 550 USD
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Date: 1774
Kind: Maps
Size: 25.2 × 42.6 cm (9.9 × 16.8 in)
Condition: Good. Good original condition with light age-related toning and minor handling wear consistent with eighteenth-century engraved maps. A central vertical fold as issued. No later coloring or restoration observed.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-12707-113

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Four harbor charts of the Strait of Magellan on a single engraved sheet, from the French edition of John Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty, published circa 1774. The sheet is lettered "Tom. I. Pl. 3" at the upper right and carries an English-miles scale bar at the foot, headed "Echelle de ... Milles Anglois".

The large chart at right is "Baye et Havre de Cordes", with soundings, anchor signs and the small "Isle des Moules" and "Isle de l'Oeuf" in the bay. At the upper left are two small charts, "Port Famine" and "Baye de Wood", and below them is "Port Gallant et Baye Fortescue", each chart drawn with soundings, rocks, anchor symbols and a wind-rose-style system of rhumb lines.

These surveys are based on observations from the voyage of John Byron in the 1760s. Port Famine, on the strait's northern shore, was the site of an earlier failed Spanish settlement, and the anchorages here mattered to every ship passing between the Atlantic and Pacific.

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