Hortus Kewensis

Hortus Kewensis
Author: William Aiton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1789
Genre: Botanical gardens
ISBN:

The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections

The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections
Author: Holden Arboretum
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780873384339

More than 970 rare books, dating from 1479 to 1830 and covering such categories as gardening, herbals, botanical books and landscape architecture are catalogued in this bibliography.

Hortus Kewensis

Hortus Kewensis
Author: William Aiton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1108069673

Published in 1789, this three-volume botanical catalogue of plants in cultivation at Kew sheds light on the history of horticulture.

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 3

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 3
Author: Markman Ellis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040243177

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.