BRUNET, Claude

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BRUNET, Claude
The Good Use of Powdered Tobacco. The different ways to prepare it & flavour it. With several things about Tobacco Paris, at the Widow of G. Quinet... adjoining the office of the Tobacco Powder, 1700 Beautiful copy, with very large margins, of a rare booklet on the virtues of tobacco and the "ways to perfume it". Fascinating panorama on the uses of tobacco in 1700. Original edition. In-12 (172 x 95mm). Snack: ?1 A-B12 C8 D2. Binding signed by Belz-Niedrée. Tobacco morocco, triple fillet, spine ribbed, gilt edges, booklet bound. Provenance: Bulletin Morgand 1892-1895, no. 21998 -- unidentified bookplate. Rarity: a handful of known copies, none reported on Worldcat, no copy on auction since 1977. Slightly cracked headdress The book was the subject of a review in the Journal des Savants evoking the opposition of Fagon, the King's physician, to even moderate use of tobacco (year 1700, p. 354). The printing address of the book almost suggests that the Widow Quinet was selling books and tobacco "in the great hall of the Palace"... According to Claude Brunet, the King of Persia and the Grand Duke of Moscovia prohibited tobacco "to their subjects" on the pretext that it "rendered men impotent". In Spain, "notwithstanding the Popes' defenses, priests have no qualms about using it when saying Mass, & having tobacco open on the altar"...
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