A true & exact history of the island of Barbados :
illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making ... : all cut in copper /
by Richard Ligon gent.

Description

Main Author

Ligon, Richard.

Related Names

Moseley, Humphrey, d. 1661.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ..., 1657.

Subjects

Sugar > Sugar / Manufacture and refining > Sugar / Manufacture and refining / Barbados > Sugar / Manufacture and refining / Barbados / Early works to 1800.
Botany > Botany / Barbados > Botany / Barbados / Pre-Linnean works.
Barbados > Barbados / Description and travel > Barbados / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.

Note

Errata, last p.
Includes index.
Signatures: [A]² a-b² B-2I² chi1.
The thirteen leaves of plates include 2 double-page maps tipped in at the centerfold, the first a general map of the island by John Ogilby.
First 2 p. blank. Folded letterpress leaf with title "An index to the platforme or superficies of an ingenio, that grinds or squeezes the sugar" follows p. 84.

Physical Description

[12], 122, [4] p. (the last blank), [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans (engravings) ; 29 cm. (fol.)

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