TOBACCO.
Pesaro, Stamperia Gavelliana, 1759.
Storia distinta e curiosa del tabacco; concernente la sua scoperta, la introduzione in Europa, e la maniera de coltivarlo, conservarlo, e prepararlo, ec. Per servirsene, con alter ottime, ed utili osservazioni sopra il medesimo.
First edition, second state, of this rare work on growing, curing, packaging and selling tobacco, written for the benefit of farmers in the Papal States who had two years earlier been given permission to cultivate it. Much of the information is based on methods of tobacco cultivation in Maryland and..... More