L'arte di fumare e prender tabacco senza racar dispiacere alle belle ...Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1828. Small 8vo. Contemporary paper wrappers, pasted on top of the original lithographed wrappers.
by [SAINT-HILAIRE, Émile-Marco de]
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96 pp.First edition of the Italian translation of a brief work on tobacco, including 14 "lessons" on how to smoke and snuff tobacco. It opens with an introduction, followed by a section on the origin of tobacco, the medical properties attributed to smoking and snuffing tobacco. The lessons deal with different types of tobacco, pipes, cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco boxes, and how to smoke tobacco without offending women. With an early owner's inscription on the title-page. With some faint water stains, half-title pasted onto front wrapper. Paper wrappers damaged, especially along the spine.l Arents 1335; ICCU 000511 (3 copies).
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- L'arte di fumare e prender tabacco senza racar dispiacere alle belle ...Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1828. Small 8vo. Contemporary paper wrappers, pasted on top of the original lithographed wrappers.
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- [SAINT-HILAIRE, Émile-Marco de]
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- Used
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- [BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY -> [ABC_000681] Women Studies|[G8L0ANJLZU76] MEDICINE & PHARMACY|[G8L0ANJLZU76] MEDICINE & PHARMACY -> [G8L05113H1Z6] Gastronomy & Tobacco|
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