A Journey to the Tea-Countries of China, Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills: With a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains
by Fortune, Robert
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1852. First edition. Illustrated, including a coloured litho frontispiece, a map, 1 further coloured litho plate and one plain plate, an extra colour title page, several text engravings, pp xvi, 398, a little age-toned and slightly worn internally, recently rebound in 1979 by Delrue, in a simple brown quarter morocco and marbled boards, slightly worn, with part of the original decorated upper cloth laid down on the front endpaper; a modern image from a journal, of Fortune, with Salvia on the reverse, has been bound in between the two title pages. . First Edition. Quarter leather. Good.
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- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A Journey to the Tea-Countries of China, Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills: With a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains
- Author
- Fortune, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
- Keywords
- plant.hunting.planthunting.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Planthunting; Victorian;
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