Author: Netscher, H.J.Th. & A.A.Holle.
Title: Verslag eener reis naar de thee-districten van Britsch-Indië en Ceylon ondernomen door de heeren H.J. Th. Netscher en A.A. Holle in opdracht van de Cultuur Maatschappij Parakan-Salak.
Description: Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., 1903. [2],93,[1] pp. 1 fold. lithographed b./w. plate & 4 singel-page col. lithograped plates. Original hardcover publisher's binding (contemp. brown cloth, gilt lettered on front cover). Large 4to. - Cover partly worn; one page (38) with a few underlinings in blue pencil.* First and only edition of this rather rare report by H.J.Th.Netscher and Alexander Albert Holle on the cultivation of tea in India (Assam) and Ceylon, commissioned by the Dutch cultural association Cultuur Maatschappij in Palakan-Salak with the intention of relating this tea trade to the economic position of Java tea on the international trade market. This report has been published in a very limited edition not for trade. - In the table of contents it is stated that a map of Bengal must be present in addition to the 5 plates present. All copies we know of are without this map. Presumably this work was published without the mentioned map. Copies are known with 22 extra albumen photographs. These are not present with this copy. - - This copy with annotation in ink C.J. van Motmun (?). Present copy v.d. Cultuur Mij. Punkan Salak' # WorldCat records 7 copies; Cf. All about tea, p. 128.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia India Assam Sri Lanka Tea Ceylon Thee / Indiä Etnografie Azië Thee Thee / Indiä