Lot 224
Barbados.- Abbey copy.- Ligon (Richard) A True & Exact History Of the Island of Barbadoes, Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker...and Thomas Guy, 1673.
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000
Description
Barbados.- Abbey copy.- Ligon (Richard) A True & Exact History Of the Island of Barbadoes, second edition, folding engraved map, 6 plates of natural history and 3 folding plates concerning sugar processing with the accompanying letterpress explanatory leaf bound at end, Contents leaf (2I2) bound after title as often, title and Contents f. with one or two neat marginal repairs, map and first folding plate both with repaired tear (the former with small loss), one or two marginal annotations, occasional spotting including few rust-spots, contemporary calf, rebacked, very small loss to spine head, rubbed and scuffed, lower joint starting at foot, [Goldsmiths' 2039; Sabin 41058; Wing L2076], folio, Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker...and Thomas Guy, 1673.
⁂ An early account of Barbados with the first separate map of the island. It also includes much on cocoa, cucumbers and pomegranates, as well as illustrations of bananas and pineapples.
Provenance: William Hodgson Cadogan (armorial bookplate); J.R. Abbey (book-label; inscription "J.A. 6689/ 30:5. 1956" to rear free endpaper).
Description
Barbados.- Abbey copy.- Ligon (Richard) A True & Exact History Of the Island of Barbadoes, second edition, folding engraved map, 6 plates of natural history and 3 folding plates concerning sugar processing with the accompanying letterpress explanatory leaf bound at end, Contents leaf (2I2) bound after title as often, title and Contents f. with one or two neat marginal repairs, map and first folding plate both with repaired tear (the former with small loss), one or two marginal annotations, occasional spotting including few rust-spots, contemporary calf, rebacked, very small loss to spine head, rubbed and scuffed, lower joint starting at foot, [Goldsmiths' 2039; Sabin 41058; Wing L2076], folio, Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker...and Thomas Guy, 1673.
⁂ An early account of Barbados with the first separate map of the island. It also includes much on cocoa, cucumbers and pomegranates, as well as illustrations of bananas and pineapples.
Provenance: William Hodgson Cadogan (armorial bookplate); J.R. Abbey (book-label; inscription "J.A. 6689/ 30:5. 1956" to rear free endpaper).
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