Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 812
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
NEANDER, JOHANN. Tabacologia; hoc est, Tabaci, seu Nicotianae description medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica. 9 full-page engraved or etched illustrations showing tobacco plants, scenes of tobacco cultivation and harvesting, and pipes and smoking paraphernalia. [40], 256, [3] pages, including engraved title and portrait of the author. 4to, 212x158 mm, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties and free endpapers, book block loose in binding; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling, wormtrail through blank upper outer corner of opening leaves, old scored inscription in upper outer corner of title and portrait, both leaves frayed along fore and bottom edges affecting border on title and last line of text below portrait, Koninklijke Bibliotheek release stamp on title verso, conspicuous marginal dampstaining toward end of volume. Leiden: Isaac Elzevier, 1622

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first edition of the best-known early work devoted exclusively to tobacco, by a German physician primarily concerned with its medicinal use. Alden 622/96; Arents 148; Krivatsy 8277; Waring, page 709; Willems 204.