(ARGENTINA) Falkner Thomas A Description of Patagonia and th

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(ARGENTINA.) Falkner, Thomas. A Description of Patagonia, and the Adjoining Parts of South America. 2 folding maps. [4], iv, 144 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, minor wear; repaired closed tear on final leaf; early inscriptions on title page. Hereford: Pugh, 1774

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first edition. Originally an English medical student, Falkner converted to Catholicism in Buenos Aires, and spent more than three decades as a Jesuit missionary in Paraguay and Patagonia. The first map features a cartouche illustrated with "the great Cacique Cangapol," discussed on page 26: "I have endeavored to draw his likeness as well as I could by memory. . . . He must have been seven feet and some inches in height; because, on tiptoe, I could not reach to the top of his head." Falkner disputes, however, the existence of a race of giants in Patagonia. Field 521; Palau 86485; Sabin 23734.