An edition of A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
(1657)
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
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Botany, Manufacture and refining, Description and travel, Pre-Linnean works, Early works to 1800, SugarPlaces
Barbados
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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.
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.
Signatures: [A]² a-b² B-2I² chi1.
Includes index.
Errata, last p.
Wing L2075
Sabin 41057
Binding: old calfskin, tooled in gilt along margins of boards and on spine, author & title on spine label.
Bookplate of Hugh Craggs.
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