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Snuff, Perfumes, Cosmetics industry, Tobacco industry, Hair powder, Perfumes industry, PowdersPlaces
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Le parfumeur françois qui enseigne toutes les manieres de tirer les odeurs des fleurs, & à faire toutes sortes de composition de parfums: Avec le secret de purger le tabac en poudre; & le parfumer de toutes sortes d'odeurs. Pour le divertissement de la noblesse, l'ut lité des personnes religieuses & necessaire aux baigneurs & perruquiers
1698, Chez Hilaire Baritel, Iacques Guerrier, & Iacques Lyons. Ruë Merciere
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First listed by European America as printed in Paris, 1650, however this edition may be a ghost and the first edition of this work may have been printed in Lyon, 1693.
Includes recipes for preparing perfumes and powders from ingredients such as flowers, fruits, white sugar, ambergris, tobacco, and "Peruvian balm" (p. 23)
"Traité du tabac", p. 114-134, describes the making and use of snuff as well as how to perfume it.
Signatures: ã¹² (ã1 verso blank) ẽ¹² (ẽ12 blank) A¹² C-G¹² (C2, C4 missigned B2, B4)
Errors in paging: p. 133 misnumbered 111.
Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head pieces.
Arents, G. Tobacco: its history, 427.
Arents Tobacco Collection. Tobacco: a catalogue, 539.
European Americana 698/15.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later full speckled calf.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.
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