Richard Ligon | A true & exact history of the island of Barbados, London, 1657, first edition, contemporary calf

Richard Ligon

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. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1657

FIRST EDITION, folio (291 x 183 mm.), folding map, 6 engraved plates, 3 folding tables and one folding plan, contemporary calf, modern red morocco label to spine, 2 of the folding tables with large closed tears, neatly rebacked retaining most of original spine

PROVENANCE:

ownership inscription of "Hen: Hall" to title-page, presumably Henry Benedict Hall (1590-1668) of Highmeadow House, Gloucestershire; by descent to his grand-daughter Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall (d.1749), who, in 1713, married Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage (c.1695-1754)

LITERATURE:

Wing L2075; Sabin 41057