TOBACCO

 

AMERLINCK, Maria Concepcion, Historia y cultura del tabaco en Mexico (Spanish Edition) . 291 color photos, 19 B+W, 33 figs, 51 tables, hardbound, 293 p. An impressive coffee table book on tobacco including scenes from Aztec codices of smoking. The Mexican tobacco industry must have poured lots of money into producing this book. Mexican coffee table books are equal to Japanese and Italian quality, often surpassing the beauty of art books even produced in the USA.

 

ATLAS del TABACO en MEXICO, 1989, 134 pages (an immense 13 inches wide times 17 inches long), extensive bibliography, discusses soils, history of tobacco (including in pre-Columbian times, with artifacts). Long out of print (means unavailable even in Mexico), we have not seen this offered for sale in the United States or Europe. Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica, Joaquin Abdon Huerta Alva (coordinator).

d'ANNA, Enrico, TABACCO STORIA ARTE. Fancy coffee table book subsidized by the Italian government as a present to ambassadors, senators. There was no way ever to buy a copy of this book. 307 p., 198 works of art in full color, from Matisse, Munch, Degas, Duchamp, van Gogh, and also a section of MAYA vase paintings showing smoking, photos by Hellmuth.

 

ROBICSEK, Francis, The Smoking Gods Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion , foreword by Michael Coe. 233 p., 234 illustrations (including photographs by Nicholas Hellmuth), 265 outstanding color plates.

 

New page format posted November 6, 2009