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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.

The seven sisters of sleep: popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world / [M.C. Cooke].

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

A black man (Native American?) leans on a barrel while holding a pipe and tobacco leaves. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.

A tobacco plantation with workers, a Mexican Indian (?) and two European masters. Coloured engraving, c. 1821.

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.

Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.

España en la historia del tabaco / [José Pérez Vidal].

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.

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Nicotiana

Images from the collections

Images about Nicotiana

Works from the collections

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.

Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.

España en la historia del tabaco / [José Pérez Vidal].

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.

Nicotiana

Images from the collections

Images about Nicotiana

Works from the collections

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.

Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.

España en la historia del tabaco / [José Pérez Vidal].

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.

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