Reference book "La Fleur du Mal" on tobacco objects
Reference book wrote in French by Dominique Delalande "La Fleur du Mal, cinq siècles d'objets d'arts autour du tabac".
The different parts are :
- the tobacco origins
- the arrival in Europe (tobacco rasps, snuffboxes, pipes, jars, ...)
- tobacco and America
- opium objects
- cigarette, lighters, etc..
- meerschaum, amber...
Sale price : 65 euros + shipment cost.
Worldwide shipment.
Also discover "Eros Secret ", a book on curiosa objects of whom Dominique Delalande wrote , in French and English, the tobacco part.
La Fleur du Mal, reference book on tobacco objects.
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