Hewitt jr robert (8 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Casualty Actuarial Society, 1990. Cover faintly rubbed/bumped; edges very faintly rubbed/soiled; binding tight; cover and interior intact and exceptionally clean. hardcover. Good.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Ornamental beveled cloth. Chromolithographic frontispiece, folding world map at rear of places of coffee production and telegraph lines. Very good copy. An advance copy, inscribed by the author with an ALS tipped in. Later private bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. The author was a coffee broker by profession. All aspects of coffee are covered, with a worldwide analysis of where it is produced, including the East Indies, notably Java. Starting around 1830, Java became an important exporter of coffee to Europe, which ended when the coffee groves were devastated by leaf rust in the early 1880s, a decade after this book was published. The classic muckraking novel Max Havelaar by Multatuli (Edward Donwes Decker) exposed the abuses that forced cultivation of coffee gave rise to. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Zustand: Good+. First edition. First edition. Presentation copy signed by "the author" on the front free endpaper and inscribed to G.W. Hull in the year of publication, with "1st copy" inscribed in the same hand to the pastedown. Likely a pre-publication copy; possibly the first one the author himself received, although authors have been known to embellish. viii, 9-102 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece depicting coffee berries, in text wood engravings, and foldout world map with handcolor at rear. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with pictorial stamping in black and gilt, yellow endpapers. Good+ with light sunning and soiling to covers, chipping to head and tail of spine, and 1 inch split to lower end of front joint. Hinges starting, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, moderate toning to contents. Penciled correction to text on p. 47, pp. 87/88 mistrimmed (not affecting text). Frontispiece detached and foldout map split in three sections. Robert Hewitt Jr. was a New York real estate investor and coin collector whose strong interest in the coffee trade grew from his business connections. His attractive and expensively produced little book includes a history of coffee's global spread, methods of preparation and adulteration, facts and figures, and more. The Standard-Times greeted the book as "the first complete and satisfactory disquisition on the fragrant theme of coffee.". Signed.…