Sometimes I find it quit nice to be confronted with the fact that 'today's coffee-lover' is not that different from the ones many years ago. People were busy with coffee (and the best way to prepare it...) already for decades... and you know what? They wrote books about it, which are worth a lot of money today...
I came across this book for example:
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2 CADET DE VAUX, Antoine Alexis François.
Dissertation sur le café; son historique, sespropriétés, et le procédé pour en obtenir la boissonla plus agréable, la plus salutaire et la plus économique. Suiviede son analyse.
Paris, D. Colas for the Bureau du Journal d'Economie Rurale, Mme. Huzard and Xhrouet (changed in: Paris, L. Colas, Mme. Huzard and Xhrouet), 1807. 12mo. Contemporary pink marbled wrappers, uncut. (4), 119, (1) pp.
Rare second issue of the second edition of this comprehensive treatise oncoffee by the eminent French chemist and pharmacist Antoine AlexisFrançois Cadet de Vaux (1743-1828), considered a classic in the field.The first edition had appeared in 1806 with exactly the same text as well ascollation. Cadet de Vaux, an innovator and agricultural reformer, founded theJournal d'economie rurale de Paris in 1777 and published numerous workson a wide range of scientific topics. The chemical analysis of coffee at the endof the dissertation is by his nephew Charles-Louis Cadet-Gassicourt. At the endan index and an advertisement for the Journal can be found. The originalimprint, on the verso of the half-title, is changed by pasting two slips ofpaper over the text: one covering the address of D. Colas, the other mentioningL. Colas as publisher.
Good, uncut copy.- (Two pieces of paper pasted on p. (2)).
Vicaire 138; Hünersdorff, Coffee, pp. 240-1 (this issue notrecorded); Wellcome II, p. 284; Müller, Kaffee, p. 37; Jardin, p.382; Bitting, p. 72.
€ 1.250,00
Prices in EUROS (€), shipping and BTW/VAT extra.
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So, fellow coffee-lovers, write books and live long enough to collect the cash