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£950 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A rare contemporary Portuguese report describing the encounter between the Spanish Captain Francisco Ponce de Leon and an Argentine warship off Cape St. Vincent, the most southwestern point of Portugal, in the summer of 1752. Ponce de Leon emerged victorious from the incursion, destroying the Argentine vessel in the process. OCLC locates a single copy at Heidelberg.

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