Beschreibung:

Hughes (Griffith). The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books. By the Reverend Mr. Griffith Hughes, A. M. Rector of St. Lucy's Parish in the said Island, and F.R.S., 1st edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1750, title, dedication leaf, list of subscribers, folding engraved Map of the Island of Barbados, by Thomas Jefferys (plate size 43 x 36 cm), short closed tear without loss to right margin, 30 full-page engraved plates of mostly botanical and natural history subjects by James Mynde and George Bickham after Georg Dionysius Ehret and others, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some spotting, mainly at front of volume and to margins, bookplate to front pastedown removed, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed and joints partly cracked, folio (text block 36 x 23 cm) (Quantity: 1) Nissen 950; Sabin 33582; Hunt 536; Great Flower Books p. 60. According to Hunt, this work 'is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History'. Hughes's Natural History of Barbados is the first book to describe a grapefruit calling it the Forbidden-Fruit-Tree.