Bibliotheca Nicotiana

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bibliotheca Nicotiana: A Catalogue of Books About Tobacco, Together With a Catalogue of Objects Connected With the Use of Tobacco in All Its Forms Nearly four centuries ago the Old World learned from the New the use of tobacco, and the lesson has been so well learned that smoking is now common everywhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.