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A voyage to Arabia the happy , by the way of the Eastern ocean, and the streights of the Red-Sea: perform'd by the French for the first time, A.D. 1708, 1709, 1710. Together With a particular Relation of a Journey from the Port of Moka to the Court of the King of Yemen, in the second Expedition, A. D. 1711, 1712, 1713. Also, an account of the coffee-tree, and its Fruit. Collected from the Observations of those employed in this last Voyage. Likewise an historical Treatise of the first use of Coffee, and the Progress it afterwards made both in Asia and Europe; how it was introduced into France, and whence it came to be so generally received at Paris.
La Roque, Jean de, 1661-1745.Date: 1726
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Anno decimo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XVII. An act to repeal so much of an act made in the seventh year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, an act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation, from this kingdom, of coffee and cocoa nuts of the produce of the said colonies or plantations; for discontinuing the drawbacks payable on China earthen ware exported to America; and for more effectually preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations, as relates to the duties upon glass, red-lead, white-lead, painters colours, paper, paste-boards, mill-boards, and scale-boards, of the produce or manufacture of Great Britain, imported into any of His Majesty's colonies in America; and also to the discontinuing the drawbacks payable on China earthen-ware, exported to America; and for regulating the exportation thereof
Great BritainDate: 1770
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The virtue and use of coffee, with regard to the plague, and other insectious distempers Containing the most remarkable observations of the greatest men in Europe concerning it, from the first knowledge of it, down to this present time. To which is prefix'd, an exact figure of the tree, flower, and fruit, taken from the life. By R. Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Richard BradleyDate: M.DCC.XXI. [1721]
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A treatise on tobacco, tea, coffee, and chocolate . In which I. The advantages and disadvantages attending the use of these commodities, are not only impartially considered, upon the principles of medicine and chymistry, but also ascertained by observation and experience. II. Full and distinct directions laid down for knowing in what cases, and for what particular constitutions, these substances are either beneficial, or hurtful. III. The Chinese or asiatic tea, shewn to be the same with the European chamelæagnus, or Myrtus Brabantica. The whole illustrated with copper plates, exhibiting the tea utensils of the Chinese and Persians. Written originally by Simon Pauli; and now translated by Dr. James.
Paulli, Simon, 1603-1680.Date: M,DCC,XLVI. [1746]
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A voyage to Arabia F�lix Through the Eastern Ocean and the Streights of the Red-Sea , being the first made by the French in the years 1708, 1709 and 1710. Together with A Particular Account of a Journey from Mocha to Muab, or Mowahib, the Court of the King of Yaman, in their Second Expedition, in the Years 1711, 1712, and 1713. Also a narrative concerning the tree and fruit of coffee. Collected from the Observations of those who made the last Voyage; and an Historical Treatise of the Original and Progress of Coffee, both in Asia and Europe. Translated from the French. To which is added, an account of the captivity of Sir Henry Middleton at Mokha, by the Turks, in the year 1612; and his Journey from thence to Zenan, or Sanaa, the Capital of the Kingdom of Yaman, with some Additions, particularly relating to that Country and the Red-Sea.
La Roque, Jean de, 1661-1745.Date: 1732