Reference book "La Fleur du Mal" on tobacco objects
Reference book "La Fleur du Mal, cinq siècles d'objets d'arts autour du tabac" written for our exhibition made in the Trianon de Bagatelle in 1994/1995.
- author : Dominique Delalande.
Summary :
- the tobacco origins
- the arrival in Europe (tobacco rasps, snuffboxes, pipes, jars, ...)
- tobacco and America
- opium objects
- cigarette, lighters, etc..
- meerschaum, amber...
Written in French.
- Book price : 65 euros
- Total book price (including conditioning and shipping) :
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Also discover "Eros Secret ", a book on curiosa objects of whom Dominique Delalande wrote, in French and English, the tobacco part.
- Large size meerschaum pipe representing a painter with his muses
- Celestial globe signed Mattheus Seutter made in Augsburg circa 1710
- Rare 17th century boxwood Memento Mori
- Large universal equinoctial ring signed George Adams dated 1773
- Photos of our new stand at the TEFAF !
- Ceremnoial narwhal lance with coat of arms made at the 18th/19th century
- Cane with handle in ivory on the theme of the skull and the snake
- A small architect travel necessaire in gold made in England circa 1750/1770
- Scrimshaw with the English coat of arms made in the 19th century
- Painter gadget cane all complete made circa 1900
- Universal octogonal sundial signed Johann Melchior Hager made circa 1690
- A pair of terrestrilal and celestial globes by Robert de Vaugondy dated 1763
- Sector compass forming a caliber signed Johannes Maccarius dated 1691
- Cane in massive tortoise shell representing a bird's head
- Microscope Marie type made in Paris circa 1745
- Reverse tapered telescope made in England circa 1680 / 1690
- Opium pipe in green chagreen made in the 19th century
- Extraordinary cheroot of 43,5 cm long all in amber
- Sundial attributed to Johann Gottfried Zimmer
- Exhibition book "Cadrans solaires / Sundials"
- Exhibition "Memories of Opiums" in Paris
- Antique spyglass signed J. Field Cornhill London
- Three 16th century compendiums...
- A tryptich Nuremberg sundial made by Tucher
- Antique unusual astrolabe in wood made circa 1633