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. By Richard Ligon Gent.

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. By Richard Ligon Gent.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Ligon, Richard.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Armes in St. Paul's church-yard, 1657.
Subjects:
Botany > Barbados > Pre-Linnean works > Early wodks to 1800.
Sugar > Manufacture and refining > Barbados > Early works to 1800.
Barbados > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Notes:First leaf is blank.

A folded letterpress leaf bearing "An index to the platforme or superficies of an ingenio, that grinds or squeezes the sugar" is inserted following p. 84.

With two final contents leaves.

Physical description: [12], 122, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; fol.

Citations/References: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L2075

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