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.
London, Murray, 1847
The second edition has an expanded section on tea and a new appendix on transporting plants by sea.
Second edition. 8vo, xxiv, [ii], 420, [i] pp., pictorial half- title, engraved map, 3 tinted lithographed plates (lightly foxed), 12 other illustrations, red half morocco gilt by Winstanley of Manchester, light foxing to plates, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
Abbey (Travel), 543; Cordier, Sinica, 205; Lowendahl 1056; Lust 1236.
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