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A briefe and accurate treatise of tobacco : in which the immoderate, irregular & unseasonable use thereof is reprehended, and the true nature and best manner of using it, perspicuously demonstrated / by To. Venner.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Windsor Press 17
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tobacco--Physiological effect--Early works to 1800.
- Tobacco.
- Tobacco use--Early works to 1800.
- Tobacco use.
- Nicotine addiction.
- Smoking.
- Tobacco Use Disorder.
- tobacco (material).
- Tobacco--Physiological effect.
- Medical Subjects:
- Tobacco.
- Smoking.
- Tobacco Use Disorder.
- Genre:
- Historical Works.
- Print Reproductions.
- Early works.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Prince, Eugene (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Prince, Mildred (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], 27, [1] pages ; 32 cm
- Manufacture:
- San Francisco : WIndsor Press
- Other Title:
- Treatise of tobacco
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1931.
- Notes:
- Running title: Treatise of tobacco.
- "First printed at London in 1637 ... This edition is an exact reprinting of the text of the first edition ... Two hundred copies have been printed for the Book Club of California by James and Cecil Johnson at the Windsor Press."--Colophon. Actually the first edition was published in 1621. cf. Dictionary of National Biography.
- A reprint of the text appended to the author's Via recta ad vitam longam, 1637.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in slipcase.
- OCLC:
- 1197302
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