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FORTUNE (Robert). Adventures of Robert Fortune in his travel - Lot 75
FORTUNE (Robert). Adventures of Robert Fortune in his travels in China, in search of flowers and tea. Translated from the English... Paris, Hachette, 1854. In-12, (4)-VII-269-(1) p., contemporary black half calf, smooth spine decorated, crowned numeral at tail.
First French edition published in the Bibliothèque des chemins de fer. Relation of a voyage to China by the British botanist and traveler Robert Fortune (1813?-1880), commissioned by a London horticultural society to search for new flowers and discover tea plants for Cheswick gardens and English Himalayan plantations (Cordier, IV, 2117).
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