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Antrobus, H.A. THE HISTORY OF THE ASSAM COMPANY 1839-1953. |
£38 |
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501pp. Photographs. 2 folding maps in rear pocket. Index. Privately printed history using the archives of a great tea company. Very good. 1957 First edition, Edinburgh. |
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Cave, Henry W. GOLDEN TIPS. |
£35 |
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A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry. 476pp. Index. Many photographs. In original red cloth. All edges gilt. Very good. 1905 Fourth edition, Cassell. |
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Cave, Henry W. GOLDEN TIPS. |
£55 |
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A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry. 476pp. Index. Many photographs. In original white binding with elaborate gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Very good. A very bright copy. 1904 Third edition, Cassell. |
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Dutta, Ananda Chandra. SOME COMMON WEEDS OF THE TEA ESTATES IN NORTH-EAST INDIA. |
£25 |
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303pp. Index. 128 b/w drawings with facing page of botanical description. Stoutly bound with leather spine and corners. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Very good indeed. Bookplate 1972 Tea Research Association, Tocklai Experimental Station, Jorhat, Assam. |
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Eden, T. TEA. |
£15 |
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201pp. Index. 67 b/w photographs. Very good in worn dw. 1958 First edition, Longmans. |
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Elliott, E.C. and Whitehead, F.J. TEA PLANTING IN CEYLON. |
£85 |
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278pp.Index. 22 plates, some in colour. Folding plans and diagrams. Advertisements. A practical handbook on all aspects of growing tea. Very good in dw with wear to the top edge. 1926 First edition, Times of Ceylon, Colombo. |
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Forrest, D.M. A HUNDRED YEARS OF CEYLON TEA. |
£28 |
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1867-1967. 320pp. Index. Folding map. 25 plates. Detailed references to individual people and estates. Very good indeed in like dw. A very nice copy. 1967 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Forrest, D.M. A HUNDRED YEARS OF CEYLON TEA. |
£24 |
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1867-1967. 320pp. Index. Folding map. 25 plates. Very good in worn dw. 1967 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Fortune, Robert. A JOURNEY TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA. |
£22 |
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With a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains. 398pp. Facsimile reprint of 1852 original. 16 illustrations and a map. Fortune returned from China with more than twenty thousand tea plants for the Himalayan estates. Fine in fine dw. 1987 Mildmay. |
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Fortune, Robert. THREE YEARS' WANDERINGS IN CHINA. |
£12 |
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Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk and Cotton Countries. 407pp. Facsimile reprint of 1847 original. 17 illustrations and a map. Fortune returned from China with more than twenty thousand tea plants for the Himalayan estates. In card covers. Fine. 1987 Mildmay. |
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Goodwin, Jason. THE GUNPOWDER GARDENS. |
£12 |
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Travels through India and China in Search of Tea. 230pp. A long section evoking the tea trade in Calcutta and Darjeeling and its links with Anglo-Indian tradition. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First, Chatto. |
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Hewson, Eileen. GRAVEYARDS IN CEYLON. |
£9 |
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Vol III: Tea Country. 86pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2009 Kabristan Archives, Wem. |
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Johnson, Christine (edits). PEARLS TO PAINTING. |
£24 |
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A Naturalist in Ceylon. The Memoirs of George Morrison Reid Henry. 140pp Index. 4to. Growing up on tea estates he worked for 33 years in the Colombo Museum and wrote and illustrated a book on the birds of Ceylon. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, St. Anne's Books, Great Malvern. |
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Kelavan. TWO LEAVES AND A BUD. |
£18 |
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Tales of a Ceylon Tea Planter. 190pp. 4to. 23 b/w photographs and 3 maps. Great detail on pre-war tea planting in Ceylon and war service with the 9th Gurkhas on the NW Frontier. From the library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Fine in fine dw. 2000 Second impression of 150 copies, Colchester. |
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Kirchner, Bharti. DARJEELING. |
£12 |
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302pp. A family saga set on a Darjeeling tea estate. Fine in fine dw. 2002 St. Martin's Press, New York. |
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Moore, Mick. THE STATE AND PEASANT POLITICS IN SRI LANKA. |
£24 |
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328pp. Index. Cambridge South Asian Studies 34. The economic and political causes and consequences of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka Very good in very good dw. Paper starting to brown at edges. 1985 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Moxham, Roy. TEA |
£12 |
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Addiction, Exploitation and Empire. 272pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Constable. |
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Peebles, Patrick. THE PLANTATION TAMILS OF CEYLON. |
£14 |
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252pp. Index. Fine in pictorial boards. 2001 First edition, Leicester University Press. |
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Peries, Tony. GEORGE STEUART & CO LTD. |
£14 |
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1952-1973, A Personal Odyssey. 226pp. Card covers. Memoir of first Sri Lankan to become Chief Executive of the major mercantile and tea company. Much comment on personalites, not a dull recital of facts. Fine. 2003 First edition, Colombo. |
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Pinn, Fred. LOUIS MANDELLI, DARJEELING TEA PLANTER AND ORNITHOLOGIST. |
£12 |
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1833-1880. 50pp. Card covers. Fine. 1985 for the author. |
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Prabhakar, Eric. MADEIRA AT SUNDOWN. |
£12 |
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A Raj Trilogy. 262pp. A trilogy of three novels set in the Anglo-India of the three decades before 1857. The author was an athletic Rhodes scholar who worked for UNESCO before retiring to Madras. Very good in very good dw. 1990 First edition, Chanakya Publications, Delhi. |
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Pratt, James Norwood. THE TEA LOVER'S TREASURY. |
£16 |
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238pp. Index. Drawings. Card covers. A most detailed and entertaining American exploration of the history, culture and trade. Very good indeed. 1982 First edition, 101 Productions, San Francisco. |
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Pugh, Peter. GREAT ENTERPRISE. |
£14 |
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A History of Harrisons and Crossfield. 272pp. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Commercial empire in tea, rubber and timber. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, for the company. |
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Speer, S.G. (edits). UPASI 1893-1953. |
£55 |
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452pp. A souvenir volume marking the diamond jubilee meeting of the United Planters' Association of Southern India. Accounts of work and play by many contributors. Well illustrated with paintings, drawings and photographs. Very good in very good dw. Privately published at Coonoor 1953. |
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Tea Board, India. ALL-INDIA TEA DIRECTORY. |
£45 |
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351pp. Index. Lists all tea estates above 20 acres with details of owners, acreage and location. In the original red cloth. Very good. 1960 Calcutta. |
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