(TABAC] Enquête sur les tabacs (n°312) Chambre des députés

First edition of this significant publication issued by the Commission of Inquiry tasked with collecting all available data and documentation on the cultivation, production, and sale of tobacco.

Illustrated with numerous folding tables and a folding map of France, printed in lithography by A. Cabassol and bound out of text.

Apparently not recorded in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Contemporary half calf binding, flat spine rebacked and decorated with gilt fillets, morocco labels in light brown, some rubbing to the spine, marbled paper boards with minor marginal flaws, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges.

Some spotting to top edge; an embossed ownership stamp appears on the first leaf, with the initials CA in a medallion (possibly Caroline Augusta of the Two Sicilies, Duchess of Aumale?).

Comprehensive alphabetical index at the end of the volume.

The volume includes: an analytical summary of the responses sent to the commission concerning its published questionnaire; official answers from the tobacco administration; oral statements delivered before the commission. Mostly presented in the form of statistical tables, this work offers an exceptional overview of the state of tobacco during the July Monarchy. The fifth section consists entirely of synoptic tables, covering:

1° Foreign legislation concerning tobacco

2° The cultivation, manufacture, and trade of tobacco and the taxes imposed on it in various countries (including the United States and New Orleans, South America, etc.)

3° Imports and exports through major European warehouses; Malta, the Philippines, Haiti, and Turkey are among the cited sources of supply (p. 640).