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  • Tobacco : Its history, varieties, culture, manufacture and commerce, with an account of its various modes of use, from its first discovery until now / [E R Billings].
  • The first DNA fingerprint. The first three lanes contain DNA from a woman, her mother and her father respectively. Lanes 4 - 11 contain DNA from assorted other species including mouse, baboon, lemur, cow, grey seal and tobacco (last lane). The DNA probe used in this experiment detected tandomly repeated short stretches of DNA called minisatellites whose length varies between individuals.
  • A man smoking a pipe. Wood-engraving.
  • A man holding a tobacco pipe and blowing a smoke ring. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling (Bloteling) after P. Staverenus.
  • A European gentleman smoking a hooka and being attended to by Asian men. Coloured etching, c. 1765.
  • A man with a smoking pipe in hand looking out of a window. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Two men, one of them smoking a pipe. Wood-engraving.
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade.
  • A man lighting his pipe from a candle while holding a newspaper. Mezzotint after Vandermyn.
  • A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A woman smoking a pipe and holding a drinking glass. Etching.
  • A Turkish official in robe and turban holding a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured stipple print, c. 1803.
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe, behind him hangs a portrait. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade.
  • An itinerant vendor selling pipes is surrounded by a crowd of children, dogs and passer-by. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Three men sit and stand by a table to smoke. Mezzotint after D. Teniers, the younger (?).
  • A man sits smoking by a fireplace with a jug on the floor beside him. Engraving, c. 1825.
  • A man stands smoking a pipe as two onlookers sit at a table. Woodcut, 17th century.
  • A Turkish soldier and merchant standing outdoors to smoke. Coloured lithograph by C. Bour, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.
  • A Korean man in large hat stands smoking a pipe. Lithograph, c. 1857, after F. M.
  • Three Turkish soldiers gathered round a fire in the dark, smoking pipes. Lithograph by T. Allom, ca. 1839.
  • A man sits filling his pipe by the fire, behind a man relieves himself against the wall. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid et filius after D. Teniers, the younger (?).
  • Men of different classes and nationalities smoking in different ways. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • Four men sit round a tax collector and blow smoke in his face. Coloured aquatint,by J.C. Ziegler, 1799, after R. Newton.
  • Four Georgian gentlemen sit in their club seriously engaged in smoking. Engraving with stipple by H. Bunbury, 1794.
  • Two men indoors at a small table: one smokes while the other fills his pipe. Engraving by J.G. Wille, 1773, after A. van Ostade.
  • A seated man smoking with a tankard on the table by his side. Procees print after P. Rajon, 1872, after J.L. Meissonier, 1858.
  • Two men sit in an inn, one smokes while the other lights his pipe. Etching by Charles Jacque and L. Subercaze after A. van Ostade.
  • A man sits outside a window to smoke and drink, his servant waits behind him. Stipple engraving by Sailliar, mid-18th century, after G. Dou.