Buy this book on-line COUNT EGON CAESAR CORTI : A History of Smoking. Translated from the German by Paul EnglandGeorge G.Harrap, London, 1931
First English edition (first printing). 8vo. 295pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a double blind border to the upper board. Illustrated with sixty-four captioned plates. Spine ends very lightly rubbed and with a little spotting to edges and occasional text leaves, but in the main confined to the margins. Some light partial browning to endpapers. A very crisp copy housed in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped, but a little spotted, tanned and soiled and with some unsightly internally repaired tearing and creasing to the head of the spine panel, but no loss of any significance. An interesting account of the history of tobacco. "Pope, Emperor, and Tsar fulminated against smokers, who were punished by imprisonment and excommunication, while the Sultan of Turkey slew them by the hundred" - an extract from the blurb which will be all too familiar to those of us who still delight in partaking of the leaf in the face of political and social condemnation.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of COUNT EGON CAESAR CORTI : A History of Smoking. Translated from the German by Paul England. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, out-of-print books, used books, libri rari and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |