(Tobacco, Smoking.) Eight scarce C19th and early C20th title...

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(Tobacco, Smoking.) Eight scarce C19th and early C20th titles, including Joseph Fume [i.e.William Andrew Chatto]: 'A Paper:- Of Tobacco, Treating of the Rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of Smoking. With Anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff.', London, Chapman & Hall, 1839, 1st edition, 6 engraved plates by Phiz + b/w ills in text as called for, original pictorial paper covered boards, later rebacked; "Cavendish" [i.e. Samuel Bevan]: 'To All who Smoke! A Few Words in Defence of Tobacco; Or, A Plea for the Pipe. With Practical Observations on the Philosophy and Art of Smoking', L, Baily Brothers, 1857, 1st edition, 96pp, contemporary half calf gilt. Very scarce; Henry Beach Needham: 'Divorcing Lady Nicotine: Getting the Upper Hand of the Smoking Habit', Chicago, Forbes & Company, 1913, 70,[1]pp, original pictorial paper covered boards, later rebacked. Scarce; Walter Hamilton: 'An odd volume for smokers. A lyttel parcell of poems and parodyes in prayse of tobacco, contayning divers conceited ballades, and pithie sayinges, all newly collected and emprinted, by Walter Hamilton', L, Reeves & Turner, 1889, 1st edition, limited edition, one of a total edition of 501 copies only, out of series Presentation copy, one of 151 copies, 180,[4]pp, original pictorial cloth gilt. Very scarce; E.J. Beale (ed.): 'English tobacco culture; being a description of the first English and Irish tobacco crops of 1886. With which is embodied a paper appearing in the Journal of the Bath and West of England and Southern Counties Association.', L, E. Marlborough & Co., 1887, 1st edition, mounted photographic frontis + 22 plates as called for, orig. cloth gilt. Very scarce; Bewlay & Co. Ltd (tobacco firm): 'Tobacco Leaves', c.1888, 2nd edition, 74pp + ads at front and end, original pictorial cloth gilt. Scarce; plus 2 others similar (8)