An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.

An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.

Etude expimentale et clinique sur l'absinthisme et l'alcoolisme.

1 print (album fol. 4r, item no. 53) : lithograph, printed in colours

Absinthine Bonnichon, Liqueur pour dames: product label. Colour lithograph.

248 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.

L'absinthe : histoire de la fée verte / Marie-Claude Delahaye.

xi, 160 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 30 cm

Absinthe : history in a bottle / Barnaby Conrad III.

Le tabac et l'absinthe : leur influence sur la santé publique, sur l'ordre moral et social / [Paul Jolly].

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Etude expimentale et clinique sur l'absinthisme et l'alcoolisme.

Absinthine Bonnichon, Liqueur pour dames: product label. Colour lithograph.

L'absinthe : histoire de la fée verte / Marie-Claude Delahaye.

Absinthe : history in a bottle / Barnaby Conrad III.

Le tabac et l'absinthe : leur influence sur la santé publique, sur l'ordre moral et social / [Paul Jolly].