Search Results: Titles starting with D from Archway Books

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.

Seven leaves, 13 x 8.5 inches, loosely bound with thread.Quite detailed in regard to route, people visited, road conditions, expenses, etc. See scans.

Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 1914 Folio, original wraps; 380 pages; 28 heliotype platees; 6 maps, 14 text illustrations; 2 charts. Fine condition. The narrative, historical and ethnographic volume on the Comoro Islands from the scientific expedition Voeltzkow led to East Africa in 1905-1905. One of the key sources on the archipelago.