FROM PLANATION TO CUP: A BRIEF HISTORY OF COFFEE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A TRIP TO THE COFFEE PLANATION OF THE EAST; AND THROUGH THE COFFEE CONSUMING COUNTRIES OF EUROPE.
Book Details + Condition: American Grocer Publishing Assn (New York). Third Edition, 1883. Hardcover with decorated brown boards. 416 pages. Illustrated. Chapters include:
- The Plant and Culture
- Preparation for Market
- Grinding, Blending and Mixing Coffee
- Making the Coffee
- The Moca and Java Berry
- Cultivation in Ceylon, India and Brazil
- Coffee Culture of the West Indies
- Maracaibo and Laguayra Coffee
- The Coffee Industry in Mexico
- Chemical Analysis of Coffee: Its Medicinal and Other Properties
- The Coffee Trade
- The King of the Coffee Trade
- Coffee Consumption of the World
- And much more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with mottling and discoloration present; chafed and torn spine ends; front and rear free endpapers missing (seems odd, but perhaps they were never included); periodic age toning and foxing to interior, which is otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
