| Author | Bragge, William, 1823-1884.
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| 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. Collected by William Bragge, F. S. A.
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| Published | Birmingham, Priv. Print. [Hudson and son] 1880.
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| Description | 3 p. l., 8, ii, [5]-248, [3] p.
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| General Note | 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".
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| Subjects | Fire-making.
Smoking -- Bibliography.
Snuff.
Tobacco -- Bibliography.
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| LC Card Number | 03-6394 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: Z 7882 B813
mq46794: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 33234] |
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