TOBACCOTOBACCO
Design,
Beauty, Gout,
TOBACCO,
“Chickens”
Browne, Isaac Hawkins. Poems upon various subjects, Latin and English. London: J. Nourse, 1768. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). [10], 160 pp. (frontis. lacking).
• ESTC T116967. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Frontispiece lacking; title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Inner margins of the first two leaves and outer margin of the final leaf repaired.
A
DUTCH
Emblem Book — A
Charmer
Cats, J[acob]. Nuttelyck huys-boeck. Behelsende eene bespiegeliing des 's mensche; waer in het leeven bestaet; waer door de doot onderworpen is geworden.... Leyden: Hendrik van der Deyster, 1769. 12mo. [12], 321, [11] pp.; illus.
tobacco (accompanied by an illustration of a feathered, bow-equipped Indian reclining and puffing away on his pipe) and alcoholic beverages. 
“Who’s
Who”Great Britain. Parliament. A true and exact list of the lords spiritual and temporal, also of the knights[,] commissioners of shires, citizens and burgesses, chosen to serve in the Parliament of Great Britain. [London], 1741. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 16 pp.
tobacco
and wine). The current U.K. Parliament website sums up the terms thusly: “The
Lords Spiritual are made up of the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the
Bishops of London, Durham and Winchester as well as specific bishops of the
Church of England. The Lords Temporal are made up of Hereditary Peers elected
under Standing Orders, Life Peers, Law Lords, the earl Marshal and the Lord
Great Chamberlain.”
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the image to the right 
Uncommon:
ESTC locates only four copies, none of which are in the U.S.
• ESTC T26238; Goldsmiths’-Kress 7877.5. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Pages age-toned, with some dustsoiling.
Abolition of a
Tobacco Monopoly
Spain. Laws, statutes, etc. 17 March 1814. Begins: "...Sabed: Que las Cortes han decretado lo siguiente: ...1.o Queda abolido el estanco del tabaco en todas las provincias de la monarquía española en ambos mundos...." [in text at end: Madrid, 17 March 1814 with final subscription in italic type of 20 March 1814]. Folio. [2] ff. (final page blank).
• The first printing of the 31-clause decree abolishing the Crown's tobacco monopoly, creating free trade in the commodity "in both [the Old and New] worlds," scrapping the old tax structure and instituting a new one, and addressing what is to be done with the government employees in the Tobacco Branch.
• Not in Palau (?); not in Maggs, Bibl. Amer.; not in Harper, Catalogue XVI. Excised from a volume and leaves no longer integral, but now rehinged. Light stain in inner margin. Rubber-stamped numbers in upper margins. Manuscript notes indicating that this copy was sent to authorities in Chile. Now housed in a quarter cloth (faux leather) folder with marbled paper sides. 
A nice copy of an important economic document.
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