On the trail of the opium poppy
$600 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
Boston: Small Maynard & Company, 1914 . First American edition, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. viii, 300; 8 , 308; frontispieces, two folding maps, 18 plates after photographs; full green gloth, gilt title on covers and spines; light spotting and bumping to boards, hinges starting, light tidestaining to top edge of plates, still very good. Hosie was a consul to China and a respected plant collector. In 1908 the government of India offered to stop the export of opium
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