Antique Map of Cordes Bay, Port Famine & Fortescue Bay – Patagonia, 1774
€ 490
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1774
Sheet size
25.2 × 42.6 cm (9.9 × 16.8 in)
Condition
Good
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.
Condition
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.
About this sheet
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.
