May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279
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Sale 2279 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 480
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MARCANDIER, [-]. Traité du Chanvre. [4], 8, 138, [2] pages. 12mo, modern 1/2 morocco; faint dampstain in outer margin of opening leaves, early owner's notes on half-title verso and pages 108-109. Paris: Nyon, 1758
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first edition of a treatise on the characteristics, cultivation, and uses of hemp, dealing largely with the manufacture of cordage and textiles, though the author cites ancient writers on its medicinal properties and Peter Kolbe's early 18th-century narrative of his travels in southern Africa for a reference to Hottentots smoking dagga instead of tobacco.