Brazil and Java. Report on Coffee-Culture in America, Asia and Africa, to H.E. the Minister of the Colonies

London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Original brown cloth hardcover with gilt spine titles. A good-only copy. External description: corners and spine tips rounded and bumped with minor fraying at the extremities of the corners. Some bumping as well to the board edges where they extend beyond the textblock. Rubbed, lightened spot to the center of the spine column, and darkening ot the top of the boards and the top edge of the textblock. Interior description: Front pastedown with two erasure spots - brown papers lightened and scuffed from the erasure. Front hinge is split with paper exposing the binding web - still relatively solid. The rear hinge is starting but not as advanced as the front. Darkening to the edges of the back of the free endpapers from the dark brown endpaper coloring coming through. Some light soil at the half-title. Frontispiece, plates, graphs and maps intact, including two large folding maps bound in at rear and an extending graph in the supplements. One of the folded maps has a long tear at the binding edge. Binding feels solid and sturdy although cupping the spine will always be recommended with a book of this size and weight. Advert for the European publisher's catalog affixed to the rear pastedown. The pages are bright and clean, majorly free of the foxing that generally plagues books of this time period. A well-kept copy inspite of the wear at the hinges and board edges. 637 pp.