Coffee shrub
Date
1694
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p7a
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 327mm
width (page): 192mm
width (page): 192mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Print of a coffee shrub used as the illustration to a letter by Edward Clyve to Hans Sloane. This is one of the earliest printed descriptions of the coffee shrub. This is included in the Letter Book in lieu of a drawing.
Object history
'A coffee shrub brought from Moha in Arabia [Mocha, Yemen] Felix by Mr Edward Clyve (63)', in Hans Sloane, ‘An account of a prodigiously large feather of the bird Cuntur [Condor], brought from Chili, and supposed to be a kind of vulture, and of the coffee shrub’, Phil. Trans. vol. 18, no. 208 (February 1694), pp. 61-64.
Related fellows
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
Associated place