Author: DOMBURG, A. VAN (COMPILER),
Title: Lof der Tabak. Orig. edn.
Description: Baarn, De Boekerij, s.d. [circa], 1950. sm. 8°. Orig. cloth, title and small gilt tooled vignette on front boards, designed by Caspar van Hoorn. 207pp. ills. on 7 plates, list of literature cited. In praise of tobacco & smoking. A promotional publication, issued not-for-the-trade, by command of the [dutch] Associated Tobacco Industry, Ltd., Mignot & De Block, Eindhoven. containing tog. 10 essays by a.o. W.J. van Balen, Ben van Eysselsteijn, Anton van Duinkerken, J.A. Brongers.., on the use of tobacco, tobacco-boxes, snuffbottles and boxes, smoking ot cigarettes, cigars and pipes, taking snuff, the history of tobacco and smoking, tobacco featuring in art, prose and poetry, &c. Good to very good copy.

Keywords: tobacco smoking cigars cigarettes pipes history poetry prose literature