Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China.

including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries: with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants etc. First edition. One map, three lithographed plates and several illustrations in the text. 8vo. [xiv], 406pp. In a later cloth casing with leather title label. Little browning to a few pages. Small marginal chip to fore-edge of one contents page. Little rubbed and spine slightly cocked.[xiv], 406pp. London, John Murray, London, John Murray,

Fortune (1813-1880) a keen traveller and botanist, made four journeys into the interior of China where he collected plants for the Horticultural Society. He describes his travels between 1843 and 1845 through the provinces of Guandong, Fujian and Zhejiang, ending in Shanghai. Far from being the "northern provinces" the regions he describes are in fact just north of Canton province. c.f. Lust 1236; Cordier 205.

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