Discours du tabac, ou il est traité particulierement du tabac en poudre
Subtitle: Avec des raisonnemens physiques sur les vertus & sur les effets de cette plante, & de ses divers usages dans la medecine
By: Par le sieur Baillard
Contributors: Breau, P.J. former owner
Publisher: Chez Jean Jombert, prés des Augustins, à l'image Nostre-Dame
Published: 1693
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Snuff; Tobacco
Notes: 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, 3995.

Arents, G. Tobacco, 300c.

Waring, E.J. Bib. therapeutica, 771.

NLM. Seventeenth cent., 9253.

European Americana 693/138.

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.