[Rarebooks] FS: Uncommon 1898 Quebec Tobacco Culture Book

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

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7. [Got a Match?]  Labelle, Louis-V.  “Traite de la Culture L’Industrie 
du Tabac”

Published in Quebec by Dussault & Proulx, in 1898.

A fairly comprehensive, though succinct, survey of tobacco growing and 
harvesting; the author had a tobacco farm in St. Jacques de l’Achigan 
(Quebec), although within five years of publishing this study he quit 
and became a civil servant for the government. One of the more startling 
revelations in the book is Labelle’s assertion that some 
races/nationalities grow tobacco better than others. For instance, he 
claims that Mexican tobacco was always inferior because the Mexican 
farmers who grew it were “careless” and “ignorant”, but its quality was 
increased dramatically when French colonists came in and took over. And 
so it goes. Although a widely distributed book at the time of its 
publication, this has become a somewhat uncommon title in the trade.

Hardcover. 5”x7.5”, 112 pages, line illustrations. Covers with minor 
soil, light wear, ding at the lower corner.  [43034]  $125


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