Catalogue

Record Details

Catalogue Search



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 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  Cover Image E-book E-book

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 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.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 online resource ([8], 122, [3] pages) : illustrations, map, plans
  • Publisher: London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1657.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:august.22
Errata: pages [3] at end.
Multi-User.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the British Library.
Location of Originals/Duplicates Note:
British Library
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted through purchase.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by publisher.
Subject: Botany > Barbados > Pre-Linnean works.
Sugar > Manufacture and refining > Barbados > Early works to 1800.
Barbados > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.


Additional Resources