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020 _a9781107339170 (ebook)
020 _z9781108066884 (paperback)
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_beng
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_cUkCbUP
050 4 _aSB269
_b.E45 1774
082 0 4 _a633.7/3
_223
100 1 _aEllis, John,
_d1710?-1776,
_eauthor.
245 1 3 _aAn Historical Account of Coffee :
_bWith an Engraving, and Botanical Description of the Tree /
_cJohn Ellis.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1774.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (iv, 115 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
520 _aThis tract, which first appeared in 1774, considers the characteristics, cultivation and uses of the coffee plant. Its author, John Ellis (c.1710-76), was a botanist and zoologist who from 1770 to 1776 served as a London agent for the government of Dominica. Published in order to promote the prosperity of the island, the work reflects the difficulties faced by the coffee growers. Ellis begins by describing the flower and fruit of the coffee plant. He then presents his historical survey, drawing on contemporaneous travel writing to illuminate coffee-related practices around the globe. The narrative takes in the plant's early uses in Arabia, its cultivation in the colonies, and the growth of coffee houses in Europe. This reissue also contains a 1770 work by Ellis which gives instructions on transporting plants overseas. Reissued elsewhere in this series is The Early History of Coffee Houses in England (1893).
650 0 _aCoffee
_xHistory
_vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aCoffee
_xVarieties
_vEarly works to 1800.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108066884
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pBotany and horticulture.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107339170
999 _c514663
_d514661