Book Details
| Author: | Chamney, Montfort: |
| Title: | The Story of the Tea Leaf. |
| Published: | Calcutta: The New Indian Press, n.d. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 02a - General |
| Description: | Preface by Sir Edward Albert Gait. iii, 78 pp. Frontispiece & 2 other b/w photographic illustrations. A great variety of information regarding the history of tea and tea drinking from the first discovery of the properties of the tea plant by the Chinese nearly 5000 years ago. How the habit of tea drinking began and spread in England, trade in tea by the Dutch and Portuguese and the monopoly of the East India Company and the cultivation of tea into India. The author was a tea planter in Assam for nearly 25 years. Some browning on title page, otherwise text very clean. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #8001 |
| Price: | € 105.00 |
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