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1686) Kreuterbüch
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Text printed in black with hand-colored woodcuts on cream laid paper, mat 49 x 36 cm. Woodcut images: XVI (recto) Tree-lined garden with gardener tending raised beds and potted plants; (verso) Man behind horse pulling roller over a field, with second roller, foreground. Image of a clay vessel for germinating seeds. XVII (recto) Worker using a hoe next to grapevines in a landscape; Worker carrying two bundles of thatch; View of trees in a landscape...
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Language
English
Description
When the news of the peace with China first reached England, in the autumn of 1842, I obtained the appointment of Botanical Collector to the Horticultural Society of London, and proceeded to China in that capacity early in the spring of the following year. In laying my travels and their results before the public, I beg to say at the commencement, that I have no intention of writing or "making" a "book on China." By this I mean such books as have often...