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The George Arents Collection

Room 328
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New York, NY 10018-2788

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image of "la nicotiane tabac"
Prévost, Jean Louis. "La Nicotiane Tabac."
Original watercolor drawing, ca. 1810.
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The Arents Tobacco Collection, the product of over sixty years of collecting by George Arents, is a comprehensive collection on the history, literature, and lore of tobacco. More

The Arents Collection of Books in Parts contains over 1,200 items and is one of the best collections assembled on the principle that the books therein appeared serially in separate numbers and are still in their original state. More