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[Trade Catalogues] [Tobacco] Brongers, G.A. Nicotiana tabacum The History of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoking in the Netherlands. Transl. W.C. ter Spill. Groningen, T. Niemeyer N.V., 1964, 259,(1)XXI,(7) p., deluxe ed. w. ills., orig. gilt hand blindst. leather, a.e.g., 4to.

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[Trade Catalogues] [Tobacco] Brongers, G.A. Nicotiana tabacum The History of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoking in the Netherlands. Transl. W.C. ter Spill. Groningen, T. Niemeyer N.V., 1964, 259,(1)XXI,(7) p., deluxe ed. w. ills., orig. gilt hand blindst. leather, a.e.g., 4to.

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