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JOHANNES NEANDER (1596 C.-1630 C.) Tabacologia: hoc est Tabaci, seu Nicotianae descriptio Medico Chirurgico ... Weiter
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JOHANNES NEANDER (1596 c.-1630 c.)


Tabacologia: hoc est Tabaci, seu Nicotianae descriptio Medico Chirurgico Pharmaceutica vel ejus praeparatio et usus in omnibus fermè corporis humani incomodis. Per Johannem Neandrum Bremanum Philosophum et Medicum. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina Isaaci Elzeviri, 1626.


§ 4to (225 x 145); Engraved portrait and title, [36], 256, [4] pp. (pp. 249-256 misbound), signature *1-2, **-*****1-4, A-Z1-4, Aa-Hh1-4, Ii1-6, woodcut head-piece, 9 full-page engraved illustrations, first three by the author, next three by Moses van Uytenbroeck, and last three by Michel Le Blon.. Contemporary half calf; spine renewed. Fine copy.

First published in 1622. The authors gives information concerning all aspects of the production and use of tobacco; he recommend its medical use, but he warns against its recreational abuse as, in his opinion, excesses bring to the ruin of both mind and body. The finely engraved illustrations depict not only the plant and some Amerindian and Persian smoking pipes, but include the first known printed images of Native Americans harvesting and processing tobacco
Ref.Willems 204; Heinrich Schecker Der Bremer Kulturhistoriker und Arzt Johannes Neander In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 29, 1924, pp. 121-126; Georg A. Brongers Nicotiana tabacum The history of tobacco and tobacco smoking in the Netherlands Amsterdam, 1964.

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