Port Famine. Baye de Wood. Port Gallant et Baye Fortescue. Baye et Havre de Cordes.

Scarce late c.18th engraved French edition of John Byron’s charts of the southern coast of Chile, comprising four maps on a single sheet depicting Cordes Bay and Harbour, Port Famine, Woods Bay, Port Gallant and Fortescue Bay.

The charts are based on observations made during Byron’s circumnavigation of 1764–66 and record key anchorages encountered in the Strait of Magellan and its approaches.

From Hawkesworth, Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majeste Britannique, actuellement regnante:

References:
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970: 659.
Sabin, J. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. (1936) 1967 : 30940, 16249, 16261, 37955, 25141.

Collections:
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: 12148/bpt6k5493702m
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 1680211
State Library New South Wales: MMS ID 991013134339702626
State Library Victoria: RARELTF ; 910.41 H31R
State Library South Australia: 910.4 H395 b
State Library Queensland: OCLC: 8681264