| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | A pinch-of snuff: composed of curious particulars and original anecdotes of snuff taking; as well as a review of snuff, snuff-boxes, snuff-shops, snuff-takers, and snuff-papers; with the moral and physical effects of snuff
| | | | Creator: | Hill, Benson Earle, 1795-1845 | | | | Publication: | Robert Tyas, London,1840. | | | | Notes: | Dedication signed: Pollexenes Digit Snift, dean of Brazen-nose. Illustrations signed "T. Sibson" [i.e. Thomas Sibson] | | | | Call #: | GT3030 H645 | | | | Extent: | viii, 152 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Snuff
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Bibliotheca nicotiana; a catalogue of books about tobacco: together with a catalogue of objects connected with the use of tobacco in all its forms
| | | | Creator: | Bragge, William, 1823-1884 | | | | Publication: | Priv. Print. [Hudson and son], Birmingham,1880. | | | | Notes: | A chronological list of 409 titles of books, and a classified catalogue (with separate t.-p.) of about 13,000 objects connected with the use of tobacco ("an ethnographic collection ... pipes, snuff mills and snuff rasps ... snuff bottles", fire strikers, tinder boxes, etc.; sold in 1882 for [pounds] 4000) An earlier list, of 169 titles, was issued in 1874: Bibliotheca nicotiana: a first catalogue of books about tobacco. Contains The pipes of all peoples (8 p.) reprinted from the Birmingham daily post, Dec. 16, 1870, by "Este". | | | | Call #: | Z7882 B813 | | | | Extent: | 3 p. l., 8, ii, [5]-248, [3] p. | | | | Subjects: | Tobacco -- Bibliography | Smoking -- Bibliography | Snuff | Fire-making
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | The book of snuff and snuff boxes: with 119 rare and unusual reproductions of snuff boxes in varicolored gold, silver, ivory, and precious woods and stones
| | | | Alt. Title: | Story of snuff and snuff boxes
| | | | Creator: | Curtis, Mattoon Monroe, b. 1858 | | | | Publication: | Liveright Pub. Corp, New York,c1935. | | | | Notes: | Previously published under title: The story of snuff and snuff boxes. Cf. Arents, G. Tobacco, 2886. Binding: Publisher's dark red cloth, gilt. In illustrated book jacket. Bibliography: p. 117-137. | | | | Call #: | GT3030 C978 | | | | Extent: | 149 p., [58] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Snuff-boxes | Snuff | Tobacco | Snuff boxes and bottles in art
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