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Archer, Thomas Croxen

Profitable Plants; Description of the Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, etc

1853

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Year of publication
1853
Place of printing
London. George Routledge and Sons
Author
Archer, Thomas Croxen
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Nature - Botany herbals
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

12mo [17 x 13.5 cm]; xv, 359 pp, 20 hand colored plates including frontis, each with several figures. original blind-stamped cloth with gilt decoration and title on spine, one margin repaired, light mark on upper cover, minor foxing on few leaves, very good clean copy, spine bright. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Besides the descriptions of coffee, tea, cocoa, cloves, cinnamon, nuts, palms, the author also describes opium, tobacco, cinchona, senna, etc. Regarding opium, the author states that 51 tons were imported in 1852. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Catalogue 10. British Museum Natural History p. 55. The work was also issued under the title Popular Economic Botany in the Popular Natural History series produced by Routledge.
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