A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Subtitle: 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 ... : all cut in copper
By: by Richard Ligon gent
Contributors: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676; Moseley, Humphrey, d. 1661
Publisher: Printed for Humphrey Moseley ...
Published: 1657
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Botany; Manufacture and refining; Description and travel; Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Sugar
Other titles: Trve & exact history of the island of Barbados; True and exact history of the island of Barbados
Notes: First 2 p. blank. Folded letterpress leaf with title "An index to the platforme or superficies of an ingenio, that grinds or squeezes the sugar" follows p. 84.

The thirteen leaves of plates include 2 double-page maps tipped in at the centerfold, the first a general map of the island by John Ogilby.

Signatures: [A]² a-b² B-2I² chi1.

Includes index.

Errata, last p.

Wing L2075

Sabin 41057

Binding: old calfskin, tooled in gilt along margins of boards and on spine, author & title on spine label.

Bookplate of Hugh Craggs.