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The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.

The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.

Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.

A man blowing out clouds of smoke from a long pipe, with a tobacco plant to his right. Halftone, c. 1890, after a woodcut, c. 1616.

Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, a treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated ... Whereunto is annexed ... a treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer ... Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All ... amplified / [Tobias Venner].

Britannia holding a trident in one hand and tobacco leaves in the other. Engraving by Silvester, early 19th century.

Die Rauchhere : alten und jungen Gliedern des Raucherordens, sonderlich rauchenden Vätern, Lehrern und Geistlichen zur genaueren Betrachtung und Warnung vorgeführt : nebst einem Emancipationsvorschlage / von J. Strebel.

Thomas Carlyle : table talk.

Tabacologia: hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianæ descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica. Vel eius præparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis ... / per Iohannem Neandrum Bremanum, philosophum, & medicum.

Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, etc. With plain and useful rules for gouty people / By Thomas Short, M.D.

Tabacologie et description d'un nârguîleh unique au monde comme le Saint-Graal du Cycle d'Arthur, etc., sous le nom de Graal sacré de l'humanité / par Kirithoglou.

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Die Rauchhere : alten und jungen Gliedern des Raucherordens, sonderlich rauchenden Vätern, Lehrern und Geistlichen zur genaueren Betrachtung und Warnung vorgeführt : nebst einem Emancipationsvorschlage / von J. Strebel.

Thomas Carlyle : table talk.

Tabacologia: hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianæ descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica. Vel eius præparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis ... / per Iohannem Neandrum Bremanum, philosophum, & medicum.

Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, etc. With plain and useful rules for gouty people / By Thomas Short, M.D.

Tabacologie et description d'un nârguîleh unique au monde comme le Saint-Graal du Cycle d'Arthur, etc., sous le nom de Graal sacré de l'humanité / par Kirithoglou.