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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
03547
File Name:
03547-2
Call number:
D657 L726t / 1-SIZE
Map title:
A topographicall [Description and] Admeasurement [of the yland of] Barbados in t[he West Indyaes] with the Mrs. [Names of the Seuerall plantacons]
Place of Publication:
[London]
Publisher:
[Humphrey Moseley]
Publication date:
[1657]
Map size height:
36.5 cm.
Map size width:
49.7 cm.
Item description:
fold-out engraved map; following p. 4
Geographical description:
Map of Barbados showing the location of plantation owners and roads. Decorative elements include domestic animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, donkeys, camels or llamas[?], pigs or boars, native American with a bow, men in armor, black men [slaves] being chased by a horseman, ships, and sea monsters.
Source author:
Ligon, Richard
Source title:
A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Source place:
London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1657
Cartobibliographic notes:
This map is believed to have been redrawn by Richard Ligon from an original map made by John Swan, the island's leading surveyor of the time. Missing portion of the title supplied from microfilm copy.
References:
Black, J.D., ed. Blathwayt Atlas, vol. II, p. 183-184.
Geographic Area:
Caribbean
Normalized date:
1657

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A topographicall [Description and] Admeasurement [of the yland of] Barbados in t[he West Indyaes] with the Mrs. [Names of the Seuerall plantacons]