Le sieur Baillard is a pseudonym; attributed to Jean de Royer, sieur de Prade by Barbier

A reissue of the Paris, 1668 edition with new title page

"Privilege du roy", p. [18-22], 3rd count

Signatures: ã⁸ (ã1 verso blank) b⁴ A-G⁸ H⁸ (-H8) (H7 verso blank) chi⁸ (chi8 blank) ²chi⁴ (-²chi4) (²chi3 blank)

Errata: p. [21], 1st count

Includes index

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Includes woodcuts of various varieties of tobacco plants

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes

Arents, G. Tobacco

Waring, E.J. Bib. therapeutica

NLM. Seventeenth cent.

European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy p. [18-22], 3rd count, the "privilege du roy" may or may not have been intended to have been bound where it is placed in the JCB copy; there are no catchwords either at the end of the index, p. [2-15], 2nd count, or at the end of the approbations, p. [22-24], 1st count to indicate where these leaves might belong

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: P.J. Breau, pretre: book stamp on recto of front flyleaf

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