A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes : 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 ... all cut in copper
Richard Ligon's 1673 London account of Barbados, printed for Peter Parker and Thomas Guy, is a natural history and sugar-making treatise with copper-engraved plates. The plates show plants drawn to scale beside plans of sugar works, with rooms, gutters and vats laid out in plan. A designer might take the clean ruled scale bars, the exact botanical outlines and the orderly floor plans as models for technical diagrams.
