An Historical Account of Coffee. With An Engraving, and Botanical Description of the Tree. To Which Are Added Sundry Papers relative to its Culture and Use, as an Article of Diet and of Commerce

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An Important Early Treatise on Coffee (Hunt). Engraved folding frontispiece by John Miller after Simon Taylor (offset), stain at head to few leaves, light scattered spotting & surface staining, dis-bound (all loose), edges uncut, frontis, (iv), [1], 2-71 pp, [1]. (sigs. A1-K4), housed in a modern green cloth drop-back box. (304*251 mm leaves. 316*261 mm box). ( Henrey 682; Nissen BBI 1584; ESTC T36289; Lowndes 733; Hunt 638; Sabin 22317). Useful in examining the introduction & development of coffee culture in Britain, because it connects coffee consumption with eighteenth-century natural history, colonial cultivation & international commerce. John Ellis, worked for many years as a trading agent in the West Indies, during which period he acquired a detailed of knowledge of numerous American plants.