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Fortune Robert

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.

Mildmay Books 1987 reprint of the london 1847 ed.,

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Author
Fortune Robert
Publishers
Mildmay Books 1987 reprint of the london 1847 ed.
Keyword
Gardens Giardini Jardins
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

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.