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Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, etc. by [China] Fortune, Robert - 1847

by [China] Fortune, Robert

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Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, etc. by [China] Fortune, Robert - 1847

Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, etc.

by [China] Fortune, Robert

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London: John Murray, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Fortune was a Scottish born plant collector who traveled to China under the aegis of the London Horticultural Society to search for blue flowering peonies, peaches and tea plants. In a second journey to China for the East India Company he shipped more than 20,000 tea plants and tea seedlings to India, thus establishing the Indian tea industry. 8vo, xvi, 420pp, all edges marbled, map & 16 ills. Owner's signature on half title. Red gilt blind stamped full calf with gilt title at spine ('Fortune's China'). Rubbed at spine and edges. Internally, clean, very good. HK5800.

  • Bookseller Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints US (US)
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  • Edition First edition
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  • Publisher John Murray
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1847

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