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Excerpt from Bibliotheca Nicotiana: A Catalogue of Books About Tobacco, Together With a Catalogue of Objects Connected With the Use of Tobacco in All Its Forms Nearly four centuries ago the Old World learned from the New the use of tobacco, and the lesson has been so well learned that smoking is now common everywhere. The pipes from the pre-historic mounds of the United States, and from the ancient cities of Mexico, prove the extreme antiquity of the practice; while its connection with religious, political, and social usages gives additional interest to all that can be known about it. Special interest in the subject arises from the fact that all savage and semi-civilized peoples have lavished their highest skill and most characteristic art upon the construction and decoration of their pipes, and nearly the same may be said of nations higher in the scale of civilization. The decoration of pipes and of smoking appliances generally thus adds a new chapter to the Grammar of Ornament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.