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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

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Year:
1657
Contributor:
Ligon, Richard.
Brown University
Subject:
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Botany > Barbados
Botany > Pre-Linnean works
Sugar > Manufacture and refining > Barbados
Barbados > Description and travel
Imprint 1657.
England > London
Extent:
[12], 122, [4] p., [11] leaves of plates (3 folded, 1 double folded), [1] folded leaf : ill., maps, plans ; 29 cm. (fol.)

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Notes:
By Richard Ligon gent.
"The letter of the Bishop of Sar. to me then in prison, after he had perused my book": p. [9-10], 1st count.
Signatures: [A]² ([A]1, [A]2 verso blank) a-b² (a2 verso blank) B-2I² chi² (-chi2) (chi1 verso blank)
Errors in paging: p. 97 misnumbered 98.
Errata: p. [3], 3rd count.
Title printed within double rule border; text printed witin single rule border; woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials.

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"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 " (1657). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:581123/

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