The tea planter’s manual

A$650 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

With coloured lithographed plans of an iron, and a wood-and-stone, tea factory, drawn to scale . Colombo : A. M. J. Ferguson, 1886. Octavo, Ceylonese binding of plum papered boards, title label to upper board (edges rubbed), owner s name to title leaf (recto and verso), xxiv; errata leaf, memo slip, 162, xvi (advertisements), two very large folding plans of tea factories, ragged tear across pp. 93-94, folding chromolithographed plates, vignette illustrations, occasional scattered foxing. Very scarce guide to tea planting and production printed at the press of the Colombo Observer in Colombo, Ceylon.

• Binding: Hardcover

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