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.
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. | Rare and modern books | Fortune Robert
Rare and modern books
Fortune Robert
Mildmay Books 1987 reprint of the london 1847 ed.,
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.
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. | Rare and modern books | Fortune Robert
Rare and modern books
Fortune Robert
Mildmay Books 1987 reprint of the london 1847 ed.,
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Details
- Author
- Fortune Robert
- Publishers
- Mildmay Books 1987 reprint of the london 1847 ed.
- Keyword
- Gardens Giardini Jardins
- Binding description
- S
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
8vo 497pp. 8vo frontis, map plates softcover, as new. Fortune was the first plant collector to travel in China after the conclusion of the Opium War, as a botanical collector for the Horticultural Society of London starting in 1843.
