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Nicotiana

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

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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.

    Strebel, Johann Valentin. | Date: 1857
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    Thomas Carlyle : table talk.

    Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. | Date: 1890
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    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.

    | Date: 1998
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    España en la historia del tabaco / [José Pérez Vidal].

    Pérez Vidal, José. | Date: 1959
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    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.

    Neander, Johann, approximately 1596-approximately 1630. | Date: M.D.CXXII. [1622]
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