A BASIS FOR TEA SELECTION. - First Division (all published): I. HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL. / II. SYSTEMATICAL. ('Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg', Troisième Serie, Volume I, Livraison 4)

Combertus Pieter Cohen Stuart (here 'Dr. C. P. Cohen Stuart', 1889-1945, Dutch Botanist, born and worked in Java, Indonesia; head of the Experimental Station for Tea - 'Thee Proefstation of Buitenzorg' - at the Botanical Garden in Java; identified the Eastern Himalayan region - then West-South-China - as the cradle of tea by locating and naming the species 'Camellia theifera'):

Published by [Buitenzorg - Java, Archipel Drukkerij], 1919: Pages (193)-320, Plates 21-31 on medium glossy paper, pages and plates are numbered according to the pagination by yearly Volume (complete thus)

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°°° FIRST - slightly actualized - ENGLISH EDITION OF STUART'S GROUND BREAKING WORK ON THE DISCOVERY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TEA-PLANT IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYA AND ITS 'BIOLOGICAL' HISTORY, previously only published in Dutch language in Amsterdam (1916) as his doctoral thesis for Utrecht University titled 'Voorbereidende onderzoekingen ten dienste van de selektie der theeplant'; SOMEWHAT LATER (~1950ies?) DECORATIVELY BOUND AND WELL PRESERVED: Gilt-titled green halfcloth-binding with green-and-red marbled panels, marker-ribbon; sm.-4to.(ca. 26 x 20 cm). - Topedge somewhat -, corners of frontispiece-plate (#21) slightly spotty and with a golden ink-splash at top-left (same golden ink which can be minimally found in the marbling of the panels), plate #22 with small humidity stain in the white margin; A VERY GOOD COPY.

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A BASIS FOR TEA SELECTION. - First Division (all published): I. HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL. / II. SYSTEMATICAL. ('Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg', Troisième Serie, Volume I, Livraison 4)
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Combertus Pieter Cohen Stuart (here 'Dr. C. P. Cohen Stuart', 1889-1945, Dutch Botanist, born and worked in Java, Indonesia; head of the Experimental Station for Tea - 'Thee Proefstation of Buitenzorg' - at the Botanical Garden in Java; identified the Eastern Himalayan region - then West-South-China - as the cradle of tea by locating and naming the species 'Camellia theifera'):
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[Buitenzorg - Java, Archipel Drukkerij], 1919: Pages (193)-320, Plates 21-31 on medium glossy paper, pages and plates are numbered according to the pagination by yearly Volume (complete thus)
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