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Butterfield, R.P. PADRE ROWLANDS OF CEYLON. |
£45.00 |
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182pp. Portrait frontispiece. C.M.S. mission to the Tamils in Colombo, Kandy and the tea estates 1861-1884. Very good. No date (c1900), Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd. |
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Duncan Brothers (compile). THE DUNCAN GROUP. |
£55.00 |
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Being a Short History of Duncan Brothers & Co. Ltd. Calcutta and Walter Duncan & Goodricke Ltd. London, 1859-1959. 184pp. Index. History of Bengal Tea and Jute House. Fine in near-fine dw 1959 First edition for the company. |
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Fortune, Robert. A JOURNEY TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA. |
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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. In card covers. Fine. 1987 Mildmay. |
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Lubbock, Percy. THE CHINA CLIPPERS. |
£12.00 |
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295pp. Index. Large 8vo. 21 b/w illustrations and 11 plans, some folding. The ships of the China tea and opium trade. Very good indeed in very good dw. A lovely copy. 1973 Reprint, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow. |
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Moore, Mick. THE STATE AND PEASANT POLITICS IN SRI LANKA. |
£21.00 |
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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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Pinn, Fred. LOUIS MANDELLI, DARJEELING TEA PLANTER AND ORNITHOLOGIST. |
£12.00 |
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1833-1880. 50pp. Card covers. Fine. 1985 for the author. |
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Pinn, Fred. LOUIS MANDELLI, DARJEELING TEA PLANTER AND ORNITHOLOGIST. |
£12.00 |
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1833-1880. 50pp. Card covers. Fine. 1985 for the author. |
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Prabhakar, Eric. MADEIRA AT SUNDOWN. |
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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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Pugh, Peter. GREAT ENTERPRISE. |
£10.00 |
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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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Tyson, Geoffrey. FORGOTTEN FRONTIER. |
£35.00 |
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Being an account of the part played by the tea-planters of North-East India in the civil evacuation of Burma. 146pp. Roll of personnel and folding map. Owner's name from 1946. Very good in dustwrapper with one corner lost. 1945 First edition, Targett, Calcutta. |
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