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Gejaagdek: Alleen Koffie Hag
by anonymous
Poster. Linen Backed. Image measures 33.25" x 45" (34.5" x 46.25" on linen backing)<br/> <br/> Dutch coffee poster with flying heart logo. Excellent condition.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$684.80
Letter penned from "Ralph" to his parents on The Central China Press letterhead in Kewkiang dated February 26, 1895
1895. Very good condition. A hand written letter on preprinted Memo paper from The Central China Press in Kewkiang (now known as Jiujiang), with reference to their booming business- "My dear Parents: Just a line - Lou continues to improve and will doubtless be able to stand trip home. There is still some mucous in discharge. Hope you are well and getting weller. We still enjoy Titus. Lou reads to me a little Sundays. Business is booming - All we can do. it looks as if we must enlarge soon - Coolie is...
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NZ$162.64
China Crusades and the Tea Trade in Littell's Living Age, Volume XXXVIII, 1853
by [China; Tea]
Boston: Littell & Gay, later Littell, Son & Company, 1853. Hardcover. Very good overall. Material on the rebellion in China and the instability of the Tartar dynasty, as well as the tea trade with China. Littell's Living Age was a magazine that comprised sophisticated selections from various British and American magazines and newspapers, a "Reader's Digest" of it's day. It was generally published on a weekly basis for almost a century, from 1844 to 1941. It was also often the first US publication of...
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NZ$162.64
Gilt Edge. Extra Choicest Rich Bouquet Formosa Ooloong No. Tea chest label
by [Tea] [Tait & Co.]
Taiwan, 1890. Ephemera. Very good condition. Tea chest label for Tait & Co. Printed in gold & black on handsome red paper. Printed on laid paper, with decorative diamond design border. 13 1/2 x 14 1/2"
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NZ$214.00
Printed orihon (accordion) shunga, consisting of 28 woodblock color-printed panels, two of which have flaps to reveal a four-panel sex scene
by TEA CEREMONY MITATE (見立て) EROTICA
A total of 17 panels with color-printed woodcuts (one double-page & one four panels wide). Oblong 12mo (70 x 84 mm.), orig. wooden boards, orig. purple silk title label (but no title!) on upper cover. [Japan]: late 19th century. A very rare kind of shunga, this is an example of a mitate, an "appropriation of a classical source...then used to portray the modern, urban demi-monde."-C. Andrew Gerstle, "Shunga and Parody" in Timothy Clark et al., eds., Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (British...
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NZ$8,474.40
TeaTime - A Taste of London's Best Afternoon Teas
by Jean Cazals, Claire Clark (Foreword)
Near fine copy with gorgeous photos. See photos.
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NZ$24.82
Heating & Rolling Tea-Leaves
by [Tea]
London, 1821. Very good. Aquatint from Ackermann's Repository of Arts, illustrated British periodical published from 1809-1829. Pl 15 Vol XI. Charming print of Chinese Tea Industries workers firing the teal leaves in an open sided structure, and at benches in the open air. 5 3/8 x 3 1/2" HK736.
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NZ$162.64
Expresso Yourself
by Grimwade, Stephen
A Phree Press Book, Melbourne, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. introduction by author. The text is illustrated with black-and-white cartoons and black-and-white photographs. Plain card cover with a small illustration of two coffee beans to the top right-hand corner of the front panel. A small book on coffee, the history and ingesting off. This book is a limited edition of 300 copies, of which this is number 237. Rubbing to the book edges and book panels and there are some...
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NZ$27.66
Tea and Tea Blending
by Lewis & Co
London: Eden Fisher, 1894. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sections on tea in England; tea duty; statistics; China, India and Ceylon tea; tea blending including sample blends. Large 12mo, (vii), 151pp, Index (xv), 13pp ads. Brown gilt cloth, with gilt title running diagonally across front cover and gilt title on brown spine. Covers are rubbed, esp at corners and at top of spine. Internally, pages toned and front inner hinge starting. Owner signature on half title.
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NZ$214.00
Chocolate & Coffee : Over 200 Irresistible Recipes for Total Indulgence
by Atkinson, Catherine / Banks, Mary / France, Christine / McFadden, Christine
New York, New York: Hermes House / Anness Publishing. Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2002. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 512 pages: 9 x 12 in.: 5: KB#011372: Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). "Over 270 chocolate and coffee recipes demonstrating their wonderful culinary versatility, with delicious souffles, meringues, cakes, tarts, tortes, pies, pastries, ice...
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NZ$59.92
The Heavenly Inferno : On the hundredth Anniversary of PROBAT-WERKE Emmerich
by Rotthauwe, Helmut (called Lons)
Germany: PROBAT-WERKE, Emmerich, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Illustrated boards, hardcover lacking dustjacket as issued. A fair to good copy with soiling and scuffing to the white-based covers. Bumping at the corners and spine ends with the spine tip paper torn about a cm into the spine board. The interior is much better - binding and hinges solid, pages clean and unmarked. A history of Probat-Werke, created in 1868 as the Emmerich Machine Factory and Iron Foundry. They have been a force...
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NZ$68.48
The Heavenly Inferno : On the hundredth Anniversary of PROBAT-WERKE Emmerich
by Rotthauwe, Helmut (called Lons)
Germany: PROBAT-WERKE, Emmerich, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated boards, hardcover lacking dustjacket as issued. A good only copy with soiling and scuffing to the white-based covers. Bumping at the corners and spine ends. The interior is much better - binding and hinges solid, pages clean and unmarked. Advertising half-sheet from Probat laid in at front. A history of Probat-Werke, created in 1868 as the Emmerich Machine Factory and Iron Foundry. They have been a force in the coffee industry...
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NZ$68.48
What Does Your Cup Reveal
by Smith, Kizzie Everhart
[San Pedro, California: Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc, 1948. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (26 x 20 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of author. FIRST EDITION. A guide to reading leaves in a tea cup. Illustrated with fifteen images of tea leaves, photographed from above, surrounded by text with the author's interpretation. Includes a glossary of images with interpretations. Some light soiling, and a light tideline to top and bottom edges. Red wrappers,...
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NZ$205.44
Monographie du The. Description Botanique, Torrefaction, Composition Chimique, Proprietes Hygieniques de cette Feuille
by Houssaye, J. G
Paris: Published by the author, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Finely illustrated monograph on tea and tea manufacturing. Contents include the history of tea cultivation, origin, chemical composition of tea, medical properties of tea, and preparation of tea. Includes an important bibliography of books written about tea, to that date. 8vo, (iv,) 160pp, engraved half title, 17 full page engraved plates. Blue cloth, gilt decoration & title on spine. Corners slightly bumped.
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NZ$770.40
Preparing the Lead for the Packing of Tea
by [Tea; China]
London, 1821. Very good. Aquatint from Ackermann's Repository of Arts, illustrated British periodical published from 1809-1829. Pl 21, Vol XI. Charming engraving of Chinese Tea Industries workers fashioning sheets of lead to line tea chests. 5 3/8 x 3 1/2"
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NZ$162.64
Photograph of Tea Leaf Harvest in Ceylon
Scowen and Co.. c1885. Thin unmounted albumen print with caption in white: "Plucking tea leaf. Holton Estate. Panwila," which is an area of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 11 x 8 1/2"
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NZ$410.88
The Child's Bethel Flag Magazine, Volume V.
by [China]
London: T. Ward and Co., Paternoster Row, 1845. Hardcover. Very good. With content on China, tea, South Australia, the sea elephant and pearl diving. With a chapter at p67, "Notices of China and the Chinese", with an engraved and illustrated table "Emblems of Trade and Religion in China", stating "Tea first brought to England in 1610. Tea brought to England in 1755, about 4,000,000 lbs. Tea brought to England in 1844, about 40,000,000 lbs." A chapter entitled "The First College in South Australia",...
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NZ$470.80
Plaatjes-Album Vaderlandsche Historie
by C. van Son
Serie I, Rotterdam ('Zuid-Hollandsche koffie-en thee handel'), 1926, 29 pages. Complete with 80 illustrations.
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NZ$59.76
Tea & spice receipt, Samuel Yockney Tea Dealer & Grocer at the Golden Canister, Bedford Street Corner of Chandos Street, (Covent Garden), London, August 7, 1800
by [Tea]
Receipt from London tea dealer listing tea (Fine Hyson) as well as sugar, starch, wht ginger, blk pepper, cloves and nutmeg. To a Sam.l Fayster Esq. One vertical and three horizontal folds. Handwritten addition on verso. 7 3/4 x 6 1/4". Small chip at upper right corner, otherwise very good overall. HK2130.
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NZ$470.80
All About Tea
by Ukers, William H
New York: Tea & Coffee Journal, 1935. Two volumes, quartos, xvi, 559 pages, & viii, 568 pages, thoroughly illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The definitive study of tea. The finest copy we have seen of this monumental work on the history, agriculture, and trade of tea. Slight spotting to top edge of text block on both volumes, as is usually seen (tea stains?), otherwise fine and bright in publisher's green buckram bindings with gilt lettering. In near fine cream and green dust jackets, and very scarce thus.
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NZ$5,992.00
Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade
by BATES, Robert H
Princeton: University Press, 1997. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated in black and white. xvii, 221 pages. Slim 8vo, green cloth, d.w. (very minor edgewear at bottom). New Jersey: Princeton University Press, (1997). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$32.10
Chinese Colouring Tea: Why do the Chinese colour the Tea usually sold in England? Small advertisment for Horniman's Tea
London: Horniman's Tea , 1890. Leaflet. Very good. Small 4" x 6" advert/circular perhaps removed for Horniman's pure tea, incorporating anti-Chinese propaganda to bring attention to adulteration and altering of tea leaves. One illustration. Small split to lower border.
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NZ$111.28
Coffee Cookery
by Ripperger, Helmut
New York: George W. Stewart, 1940. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), 94 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Not a book about preparing a cup of coffee, but a collection of recipes for coking with coffee as an ingredient. At the time of publication, this book claimed to be the first work to deal exclusively with coffee cookery. I offers about one hundred recipes for desserts, sweets, sauces and beverages, each containing coffee. Helmut Ripperger wrote a number of these ingredient-based cookbooks, (Spice Cookery, Mushroom...
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NZ$128.40
J. Young, Tea Dealer, Grocer & Cheesemonger, (Richmond Road, Malvern Link), handbill
by TEA; Advertising; Sri Lanka
UK: J. Young, 1850. Very good condition. A wood block printed handbill for advertising with image of a mountain and temple and surrounding trees. The Ambustella Dagoba Mihintala Ceylon "is a mountain carved into a temple.' Mihintale is believed by Sri Lankans to be the site of a meeting between the Buddhist monk Mahinda and King Devanampiyatissa which began Buddhism in Sri Lanka. 9 3/8 x 6 3/8" yellow paper with black text.
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NZ$299.60
All About Coffee
by Ukers, William H
New York: The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. Small stout quarto, 832 pages, with more than 800 illustrations, maps and diagrams, some in full color. Second, edition, revised. At the time of the book's original publication in 1922, The New York Times called it "without a doubt the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject that has been published in any language" (New York Times, December 3, 1922). A fine copy in brown cloth, in a near fine dust jacket, and scarce thus.
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NZ$1,712.00
