MONOGRAPHIE DU THÉ. DESCRIPTION BOTANIQUE, TORRÉFACTION, COMPOSITION CHIMIQUE, PROPRIÉTÉS HYGIÈNIQUE DE CETTE FEUILLE

by Tea, J. G. Houssaye

$450 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition

Paris: Printed by H. Fournier et Cie for the author, 1843 . 246 x 160 mm. 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 . 2 p.l., 160 pp. 1 leaf ad . FIRST EDITION. Publisher's blue buckram, covers with blind-stamped flourishes, upper cover with gilt-stamped pagoda, smooth spine with gilt lettering. With engraved vignette on title page and 17 engraved plates, as called for, showing tea plants, tea plantations, and

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