Detailed 18th Century Treatise on Coffee
by Botany, Chemistry, Cultivation, Social History, Café Culture in Europe and the Middle East, Even a Poem Singing Its Praises
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About This Item
Étrennes à tous les amateurs de café pour tous les temps ou manuel de l'amateur de café, contenant l'histoire, la description, la culture, les propriétés de ce végétal, le commerce qui s'en fait en France. Paris: Hôtel de Bouthillier, 1792. Small quarto, 4.75 x 4 inches; xxxvii, 121, (5), 109, (3) pages; recased many years ago retaining contemporary boards and backstrip; contents age-toned. Detailed anonymous treatise on the physical and social properties of coffee; concludes with an ode to coffee in Neo-Latin with French paraphrase. See Vicaire, Bibliographie gastronomique, 348-49.
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- Archway Books (US)
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- Detailed 18th Century Treatise on Coffee
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- Botany, Chemistry, Cultivation, Social History, Café Culture in Europe and the Middle East, Even a Poem Singing Its Praises
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- Hardcover
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Dover, New Hampshire
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I have over thirty years experience as a full-time bookseller, ten years as owner of a brick and mortar shop and twenty-one on the internet and at book shows. My particular interest is in books and other printed objects as agents or artifacts of social upheaval and cultural clash.
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