Ligon, Richard. 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

Folger bibliographic ID: 155390
ESTC number: R5114
Wing number: L2075
Folger call number: L2075
Folger holdings ID: 137483

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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

Item information about Folger L2075

cs344. Provenance: engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Edward Bunbury (motto "esse quam videri"); engraved armorial bookplate of Sr Thomas Hanmer, 1707; in pencil on back paste-down: "from Pickering & Chatto [London]"

Extended title: 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
Alternate titles: True and exact history of the island of Barbados

Botany Sugar Barbados

author: Ligon, Richard