George Arents Collection

The George Arents Collection comprises two distinct groupings of materials under a single umbrella. The first portion of the collection, the Arents Tobacco Collection, constitutes the largest and most comprehensive library in the world devoted to the history, literature, and lore of tobacco. The collection contains both printed and manuscript works—as well as prints, drawings, and ephemera—dating from 1507 to the present, representing Continental Europe, England, and the Americas.

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Collections in the George Arents Collection

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Cigarette cards
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A curious herbal: containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description...
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Tobacco, its history and associations: including an account of the plant and its manufacture; with its modes of use in all ages and countries
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Drawings, engraved plates, printed excerpts, etc. of tobacco interest from the 18th and 19th century, especially assembled for George Arents, Jr.
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Album of Turkish Costume Paintings
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Sporting sketches: consisting of subjects relating to sports of ... the whole illustrative of landscape scenery
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Les fleurs animées
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Constantinople and the scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor illustrated, First [-second] series
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Lilliputian characters
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Leopold Morse Goulston baseball collection in memory of Leo J. Bondy
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Kate Greenaway's almanack for ....
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Original drawings
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Lilliputian humorists: drawn as big as life
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer's comrade)
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Tobacco dealer's trade cards, labels and wrappers
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Tobacco, its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts, and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr.
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An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder: a scrapbook
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Tobacco, a catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection at The New York Public Library, from 1507 to the present
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Excursions daguerriennes: vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe
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A serious comedy for trivial people
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Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt
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Drawings depicting Chinese and Indian persons engaged in tobacco related jobs
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Seven pillars of Wisdom: a triumph
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Botanical prints and drawings depicting tobacco
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Portrait drawings and caricatures showing persons depicted smoking
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The wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Mother Goose, or, The old nursery rhymes
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Lady Lancing; a serious comedy for trivial people
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The importance of being earnest; a serious comedy for trivial people
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Thirty original character studies illustrating Martin Chuzzlewit
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Twelve original character studies illustrating A tale of two cities
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E.D. Laurens cigarette cards
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Twenty-four original character studies illustrating American notes
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A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke: briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking
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The golden trade
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Emblems, divine and moral
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The history of the British plantations in America.
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Illustrations of Master Humphrey's clock: in seventy plates
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My lady nicotine
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Papillons d'Europe : peints d'après nature.
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Dilucidae simplicum medicamentorum
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L'Anatheme dv Tabac
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Le Perou
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Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, [George Arents Division]
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The melancholy cavalier, or, fancy’s master-piece : a poem by J. C.
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La historia general delas Indias.
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Reuben Rattle the younger son: holograph, 1847-1848
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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
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Broadside ballads
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A Relation of a Journey Begun an Dom 1610: Foure Bookes Coutaining a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italt, and Islands Adjoyning
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The story of Dolly Dowsie and the live rocking horse
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The six voyages: through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies
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Rusia : holograph, [ca. 1920]
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De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum, alii petum, aut nicotianam vocant, brevis commentariolus :
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A counterblaste to tobacco
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English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects
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Receipts, chiefly for curing tobacco and preparing snuff.
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The Lorillard story
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Les singvlaritez de la France Antarctiqve,avtrement nommeé Amérique: & de plusieurs terres & isles decouuertes de nostre temps
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Recuerdos de Lima : album : tipos, trajes y costumbres
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The poor labouring bee
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Letter-book
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Histoire du Tabac: ou il traite particulierement du tabac en poudre
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A system of vegetables: according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences: translated from the thirteenth edition (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late Professor Linneus, and from ...
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Tobacco acts
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Dutch genre prints depicting smoking and related subjects
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Lobspruch dess edlen hochberühmten Krauts Petum oder Taback
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Dos fechas: holograph
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Tratado, sobre la cultura y preparaciones del tabaco, en Cordova, y Orizava
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Shadow and substance
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The doll's casket
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The new Brackley ballad: to the tune of the lampoon of the four Tunbridge doctors
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Bust of Voltaire
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Letter of James Madison to James Maury, the Madison business agent in Virginia
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Modiano 1931 : IV. reklám füzet
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Mateo XXV, 30 : holograph
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Poems on pipes and smoking, circa 1875-1877
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Ioyfull nevves out of the newe founde worlde : wherein is declared the rare and singuler vertues of diuerse and sundrie hearbes, trees, oyles, plantes, and stones, with their aplications, as well for phisicke as chirurgerie :
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De orbe novo decades
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Tenting on the plains: or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas
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Geographia Americae: With an account of the Delaware Indians : based on surveys and notes made in 1654-1656
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The CC Cough-fin brand cigarettes
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