Houssaye, J.-G.

Monographie du thé. Description botanique, torréfaction, composition chimique, propiétés hygiéniques de cette feuille

Paris: chez l'auteur, 1843. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 160; wood-engraved vignette on title page, 16 wood-engraved plates, and an engraved title page at the back repeating the title-page engraving; text occasionally foxed, but the plates are clean; very good copy in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. The publisher information on the title page is from a cancel. Bitting 235; Simon, 84; Vicaire 447. Item #51245

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