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HULL, Edmund C. P. Coffee Planting in Southern India and Ceylon. Being a second Edition, revised and enlarged, of "Coffee, its Physiology, History, and Cultivation." Madras, Higginbotham and Co. [printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington], 1877.
8vo. Original coffee-brown cloth, lettered in gilt and with gilt-stamped map on front cover; pp. xx, 324, [2], 25 (illustrated Select Advertisements for India and the Colonies; very light spotting in places only; a very good copy.
A very rare handbook for coffee-planters, detailing all aspects of the business, from botany, to the vagaries of the market, storage etc. to medical provisions for the coolies.
No other copy on the market, the last time this title apeared at auction is 30 years ago.
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