A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes. : Illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales. Together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of sugar-making; viz. the grinding-room, the boyling-room, the filling-room, the curing-house, still-house, and furnaces; all cut in copper. By Richard Ligon, gent.
1673
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A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes. : Illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales. Together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of sugar-making; viz. the grinding-room, the boyling-room, the filling-room, the curing-house, still-house, and furnaces; all cut in copper. By Richard Ligon, gent.
Uniform title
True & exact history of the island of Barbados
Created/published
London : Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker, at the Shop at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange, and Thomas Guy at the corner Shop of Little Lumbard-street and Cornhill, 1673.
Description
[4], 122, [2] p., 9 p. of plates : ill., map ; (fol.)
Associated name
Ligon, Richard. author.
Note
Originally published in 1657 as: A true & exact history of the island of Barbados" (Wing L2075).
ESTC staff note
DFONOTE jre: 9 l̲eaveso̲f plates, 4 of them folded
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: map of Barbadoes.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), L2076
Goldsmiths', 2039
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R18591
Goldsmiths', 2039
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R18591
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
L2076
Folger-specific note
cs362. "An index..." with instructions to place "after folio 84" is bound after 2I1; contents leaf, signed 2I2, is bound after [A]1. Torn on S1 and 2I1, affecting text. Provenance: inscription on front paste-down: "Geo: [George] Monnington. [and in a different ink] to Geo [George] - Wilson - Nov. 26. 1842"; in pencil on back paste-down: "from J. Pearson & Co."