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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0282438866ISBN 13: 9780282438869
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Hardpress Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 1318590930ISBN 13: 9781318590933
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016092199ISBN 13: 9781016092197
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
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Published by British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241698880ISBN 13: 9781241698881
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1908 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 118 Language: English Pages: 118.
Published by BiblioLife, LLC, 2012
ISBN 10: 1279684887ISBN 13: 9781279684887
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1872 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 368 Language: English.
Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0484818112ISBN 13: 9780484818117
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016087330ISBN 13: 9781016087339
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108070043ISBN 13: 9781108070041
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Published by Theclassics.Us, 2013
ISBN 10: 1230398252ISBN 13: 9781230398259
Seller: Buchpark, Trebbin, Germany
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Condition: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 72.
Published by WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 136380846XISBN 13: 9781363808465
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Published by RareBooksClub.com, 2012
ISBN 10: 1150703466ISBN 13: 9781150703461
Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United Kingdom
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Condition: Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Published by London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Limited, 1908, 1908
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, uncommon just 6 copies on Library Hub. Wickham (1846-1928), first visited South America in 1866, setting himself up as a dealer in bird plumage. He subsequently pieced together a living as a rubber dealer, sugar and tobacco planter. In 1872 he was taken on by Sir John Hooker as a plant collector, and was introduced to Clement Markham who was seeking someone to assist "in introducing the Parį rubber tree Hevea Brasiliensis into India" (ODNB). Wickham's plantation was failing, and "encouraged to obtain as many seeds as possible at £10 per 1000, Wickham seized the opportunity not only to gather but to accompany the seeds to England and escape a life that had become unsustainable". At customs he described his baskets as containing 'exceedingly delicate botanical specimens specially designated for delivery to Her Britannic Majesty's own Royal Gardens'. "Though the very size of the shipment might have caused the local Brazilian officials to pause or seek authorisation, the deception was more of a precaution. No one on the Amazon at the time could have foreseen that the massive industry about them might one day be eclipsed, or that Hevea could be successfully cultivated elsewhere". Irritated by the delay in replying to his offer to accompany a shipment of seedlings to Ceylon, Wickham invested his fee in the purchase of coffee plants and emigrated to Queensland to establish a plantation. The inevitable failure of this enterprise was followed by another débācle founding a rubber and banana plantation in British Honduras. In the early years of the twentieth century "when the success attending the development of rubber plantations in the Far East began to exceed all expectations, his occasional appearances in London received increasing attention from journalists. He was an adept self-publicist". Publishing the present account in 1908, 1908, in 1911 he was "fźted at an international rubber banquet, presented with 1000 guineas, and provided with an annuity for life by the Rubber Growers' Association and the Planters' Associations of Ceylon and Malaya. His receipts from gifts of money, shares, and other benefactions over subsequent years were substantial. lionised by the rubber companies and demonised by Brazilians. He received a knighthood in 1920. His fame had become international and his name everywhere associated with the rubber industry and the snatch of 1876. That Wickham had played a crucial role cannot be disputed. It has been established that it was from Wickham's seeds alone that the entire south-east Asian rubber industry was built". Octavo. Original rust cloth, title gilt to the spine and in white to the front board. Frontispiece and 8 other plates, map, illustrations to the text. A little rubbed, small ink splash to the spine, endpapers a little browned, occasional foxing, but overall very good.
Published by W. H. J. Carter, London, 1872
Book First Edition
Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Original blind stamped cloth boards with faded gilt lettering to spine. Fully collated, with 16 single page plates based on illustrations by the author. Pages partially uncut. Heavy foxing to prelims and to fore edge. Internally unmarked. Softening with some fraying to corners and ends of spine. Firmly bound, with rear hinge reinforced. Borba de Moraes, p. 941.
Published by W.H.J. Carter, London., 1872
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Octavo. pp xiv, 301. 16 black-and-white plates, these being "drawn on the spot" by the author. Original maroon cloth decorated in blind with gilt pictorial spine. Henry Wickham (1846-1928) travelled extensively throughout Latin America, especially Brazil where, according to his own account, he stole 70,000 seeds from the Hevea Brasiliensis, which he took back to Kew. The seeds were later sent to Malaysia, Ceylon and Africa where their cultivation effectively put an end to the Amazonian rubber boom. Cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine and at corners. Very good, internally bright, copy. Very scarce.
Published by W.H.J. Carter,, 1872
Seller: ABLEBOOKS, Hollywood, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 301 pp. First edition; original, maroon cloth; decorative blind stamped covers; decorative gilt spine; yellow endpapers; fp. plus 16 plates. Binding tight; covers edges rubbed; spine faded, ends chipped, interior near fine; see additional images provided. Wickham was notoriously credited with "smuggling" the rubber tree seeds out of Brazil, which, when later planted in Kew, London, enabled botanists to cultivate the rubber tree and sustain its plantation growth, insect free, in Malaysia. The ghostwriter's disclaimer states: "These Rough Notes. . . having been arranged and prepared for the Press without the personal supervision of the Author, may contain some errors, for which he cannot be responsible; but under the circumstances of his absence, all possible care has been given to the undertaking by those engaged in it." The Rough Notes were dictated (by Wickham) to James Hay, British Consul for Para, in 1871. Quoting Borba 941: "A legend has arisen about Henry Wickham telling how, in agreement with the British Admiralty, he organized an expedition to steal seeds from the rubber tree in the Amazon and send them to Kew Gardens from whence they were dispatched to Ceylon. From these seeds originated the rubber plantations in the East which in consequence brought about the collapse of the wealth of the Amazon. This romantic story is no more than a legend. There has never been any Brazilian law forbidding the sending overseas of rubber tree seeds, nor did the British Admiralty organize any expedition for this purpose. Several consignments of seeds were made at various times by different Englishmen to Kew Gardens and Ceylon. Wickham arrived in Brazil from Venezuela, traveling down the Rio Negro. [He] lived in Santarem for some years cultivating the land and studying tropical plants. His agricultural experiments failed and he moved on to Guinea and later to Ceylon and the Pacific islands." The illustrations therein are from sketches by Wickham. Quoting A. Smith, in the book Explorers of the Amazon, 1990, "The book has 'illustrations drawn on the spot by the author,' and one in particular may have fascinated the botanists at Kew: a leaf, pod, and fruit of Hevea brasiliensis. . . this offhand and irritating book concluded with an equally unexplained Report on the Industrial Classes in the Provinces of Para and Amazonas, Brazil, authored by James Vismes Drummond Hay, H.B. Majesty's Consul at Para The report is thorough, including such facts as that beef cost tenpence a pound in England against sixpence in Brazil. . .perhaps the Report's publication was a fair exchange. Size: 23 x 15.5 cm. 0.0.