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; viz. the grinding-room, the boyling-room, the filling-room, the curing-house, still-house, and furnaces; all cut in copper

Title Variants

Alternative: True and exact account of the island of Barbadoes

Alternative: True and exact history of the island of Barbados

Alternative: Trve & exact history of the island of Barbados

Alternative: Trve and exact history of the island of Barbados

By

Ligon, Richard.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1657

Notes

"The letter of the Bishop of Sar. to me then in prison, after he had perused my book": p. [9-10], 1st count.

Errata: p. [3], 3rd count.

Errors in paging: p. 97 misnumbered 98.

Signatures: [A]² ([A]1, [A]2 verso blank) a-b² (a2 verso blank) B-2I² chi² (-chi2) (chi1 verso blank)

Title printed within double rule border; text printed witin single rule border; woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials.

Handler, J.S. Barbados history, | 4.

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) | L2075.

Hunt botanical cat. | 270.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675 | II:473.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 657/94.

ESTC | R5114.

Subjects

Barbados , Botany , Description and travel , Imprint 1657 , Manufacture and refining , Pre-Linnean works , Sugar

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.103695
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/04003229
OCLC: 268791593