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

Title Variants

Alternative: True and exact history of the island of Barbados

Alternative: Trve & exact history of the island of Barbados

By

Ligon, Richard.

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

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1657

Notes

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

Subjects

Barbados , Botany , Description and travel , Early works to 1800 , Manufacture and refining , Pre-Linnean works , Sugar

Call Number

F2041 .L72

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.53639
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/04003229