A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes [Barbados]. Illustrated with a Map of the Island, as also the Principal Trees and Plants there, set forth in their due Proportions and Shapes, drawn out by their several and respective Scales. Together with the Ingenio that makes the Sugar, with the Plots of the several Houses, Rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of Sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-house, the Boyling-room, the Filling-room, the Curling room, Still-house, and Furnaces; All cut in Copper.

LIGON, RICHARD

Published by Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker, at his Shop at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange, and Thomas Guy at the corner Shop of Little Lumbard-street and Cornhill.,, LONDON, 1673

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Small Folio, [1] 122pp [1] with index page.[light soiling, worm trail to a few leaves] LACKING the map of Barbados. with the 6 Plates and the 3 foldout diagrams [edge wear, repair] Contemporary calf, rebacked matching style. Other than faults mentioned still a Good copy. [Richard Ligon (1585??1662), an English author, lost his fortune as a royalist during the English Civil War (1642-1651), and during this turbulent time in England he found himself, as he notes in his narrative, a "stranger in my own country.? On 14 June 1647, he left for Barbados to gain his fortune in the New World, like many of his fellow countrymen. Ligon purchased half of a sugar plantation in Barbados. After two years residence on the island he was attacked by a fever, and returned to England in 1650. He was soon afterward put into prison by his creditors. There are conflicting reports as to whether his narrative was conceived of in prison as a way to pay off his creditors and gain his freedom, or before his imprisonment at the urging of Brian Duppa, Bishop of Salisbury. His work, a folio with maps and illustrations, is entitled A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados and was published in London in 1657 and again in 1673.]. Seller Inventory # 1636

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Title: A True and Exact History of the Island of ...

Publisher: Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker, at his Shop at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange, and Thomas Guy at the corner Shop of Little Lumbard-street and Cornhill.,, LONDON

Publication Date: 1673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good