Tabak
Villeneuve, (de)
Traité complet de la Culture, Fabrication et Vente du Tabac. Mit 6 gest. Faltkupfern. Paris, Buisson, 1791. 4 Bll., XVI, 456 S., 1 Bl. HLdr. d. Zt. (berieben u. beschabt, Kanten bestoßen).
First edition. With 6 engraved folded copper engravings. - Contemp. half calf (rubbing, chafing, edges bumped). - Some occ. foxing, plates with smaller tears to folds.
"Erste Ausgabe. - Arents 1107. - Querard X, 190. - Pritzel 11704. - Kress B.2232. - ""All the details of cultivation, harvesting, curing and preparation, manufacture and selling of smoking- and snuff-tobacco are painstakingly given. An account of the costs and profits of farming, processing, and distribution is provided..."" (Arents). - Nur gelegentlich etwas stockfleckig, die Tafeln mit kleineren Einrissen in den Falzen."
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