In Balkan Smoke, Mary C. Neuburger leads readers along the Bulgarian-Ottoman caravan routes and into the coffeehouses of Istanbul and Sofia. She reveals how a remote country was drawn into global economic networks through tobacco production and consumption and in the process became modern. In writing the life of tobacco in Bulgaria from the late Ottoman period through the years of Communist rule, Neuburger gives us much more than the cultural history of a commodity; she provides a fresh perspect...
Vintage Tobacco Advertisement Signs Stamps Label Collage Scrapbook Antique Elements Embellishments
by Beautiful Prints Media
Remains of Melville B. Cox, Late Missionary to Liberia. with a Memoir
by Melville B Cox
This book is a precious small volume on precious small boxes. Most of them were used to hold snuff, powdered tobacco, and were meant to be looked and admired from a close-up. These miniature masterpieces were a key accessory for every stylish man and woman in the eighteenth century. They reflect the culture and fashion of the period. Gold is the defining material of the fifty masterpieces presented here. Therefore the most surprising aspect for those first encountering such pieces is not only t...
Tafero Vintage Collectables Catalogue - 2015 Edition
by Arthur H Tafero
The Snuff Taker's Ephemeris Volume One
by M Hellwig, M Rimel, and R Hubbard
