FORTUNE, Robert.
Two visits to the tea countries of China and the British tea plantations in the Himalaya:
Two visits to the tea countries of China and the British tea plantations in the Himalaya:
With a narrative of adventures, and a full description of the culture of the tea plant, the agriculture, horticulture, and botany of China.
Stock Code 114526
London, Murray, 1853
One of the greatest of British travellers to the Far East, Fortune, a plant-hunter gathered many valuable specimens. His expeditions, undertaken on behalf of the East India Company, to the heart of the tea producing areas of China, were also journeys of exploration as Fortune was the first European to venture here. The seeds and plants he gathered were shipped to India and became the foundation of the plantations in Darjeeling and Assam.
Third edition; 2 vols, 8vo, xiv, 315; ix, 299pp.; folding map, 29 illustrations including additional pictorial titlepages printed in red, some full-page, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, small repairs to spine extremities, a very good copy.
Cordier Sinica 2116.
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