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George Arents Collection
The George Arents Collection comprises two distinct groupings of materials under a single umbrella. The first portion of the collection, the Arents Tobacco Collection, constitutes the largest and most comprehensive library in the world devoted to the history, literature, and lore of tobacco. The collection contains both printed and manuscript works—as well as prints, drawings, and ephemera—dating from 1507 to the present, representing Continental Europe, England, and the Americas.
Items in the George Arents Collection See More
Booth Line, Liverpool.
Houlder Line, London.
Brocklebank Line, Liverpool.
Moss Line, Liverpool.
Dominion Line, Liverpool.
New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd. London.
Allan Line, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Havre.
Nelson Line, Liverpool.
Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool.
"Imperial Direct West India Mail Service", and African Steamship Co, Ltd., Liverpool.
Pacific Mail S.S. Co., San Francisco.
Leyland Line, Liverpool.
Lamport & Holt Line, Liverpool.
Hamburg-America Line, Hamburg.
Anchor Line, Glasgow.
Bibby Line, Liverpool.
Prince Line, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., London.
British-India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. London.
Pennisular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., London.
Shaw, Savill & Albion Line, London.
Cunard Line, Liverpool.
The Ellerman Lines, Ltd., Liverpool.
Union-Castle LIne to South Africa.
Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Montreal.
Collections in the George Arents Collection
Cigarette cards
49,721 items
A curious herbal
632 items
Tobacco, its history and associations
389 items
Drawings, engraved plates, printed excerpts, etc. of tobacco interest from the 18th and 19th century, especially assembled for George Arents, Jr.
172 items
Album of Turkish Costume Paintings
87 items
Sporting sketches
62 items
Les fleurs animées
57 items
Constantinople and the scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor illustrated
19 items
Lilliputian characters
17 items
Kate Greenaway's almanack for ....
14 items
Leopold Morse Goulston baseball collection in memory of Leo J. Bondy
14 items
Original drawings
12 items
Lilliputian humorists
9 items
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7 items
Tobacco dealer's trade cards, labels and wrappers
6 items
Tobacco, its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts, and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr.
5 items
Tobacco, a catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection at The New York Public Library, from 1507 to the present
4 items
An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder
4 items
Excursions daguerriennes
4 items
A serious comedy for trivial people
3 items
Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt
3 items
Drawings depicting Chinese and Indian persons engaged in tobacco related jobs
3 items
The wonderful Wizard of Oz
2 items
Twelve original character studies illustrating A tale of two cities
2 items
Thirty original character studies illustrating Martin Chuzzlewit
2 items
The importance of being earnest;
2 items
Lady Lancing;
2 items
Mother Goose, or, The old nursery rhymes
2 items
Portrait drawings and caricatures showing persons depicted smoking
2 items
Seven pillars of Wisdom
2 items
Botanical prints and drawings depicting tobacco
2 items
Mateo XXV, 30 : holograph
1 item
Lobspruch dess edlen hochberühmten Krauts Petum oder Taback
1 item
Letter-book
1 item
Les singvlaritez de la France Antarctiqve,avtrement nommeé Amérique: & de plusieurs terres & isles decouuertes de nostre temps
1 item
La historia general delas Indias.
1 item
My lady nicotine
1 item
Dilucidae simplicum medicamentorum
1 item
L'Anatheme dv Tabac
1 item
Poems on pipes and smoking, circa 1875-1877
1 item
Reuben Rattle the younger son: holograph, 1847-1848
1 item
Rusia : holograph, [ca. 1920]
1 item
The golden trade
1 item
The history of the British plantations in America.
1 item
The six voyages: through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies
1 item
Tobacco acts
1 item
Tratado, sobre la cultura y preparaciones del tabaco, en Cordova, y Orizava
1 item
E.D. Laurens cigarette cards
1 item
Letter of James Madison to James Maury, the Madison business agent in Virginia
1 item
The poor labouring bee
1 item
The new Brackley ballad: to the tune of the lampoon of the four Tunbridge doctors
1 item
Emblems, divine and moral
1 item
The doll's casket
1 item
Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
1 item
De orbe novo decades
1 item
A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke
1 item
Dutch genre prints depicting smoking and related subjects
1 item
Geographia Americae
1 item
Modiano 1931 : IV. reklám füzet
1 item
Papillons d'Europe : peints d'après nature.
1 item
Le Perou
1 item
Receipts, chiefly for curing tobacco and preparing snuff.
1 item
Recuerdos de Lima : album : tipos, trajes y costumbres
1 item
Shadow and substance
1 item
The CC Cough-fin brand cigarettes
1 item
The melancholy cavalier, or, fancy’s master-piece : a poem by J. C.
1 item
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
1 item
Broadside ballads
1 item
English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects
1 item
Ioyfull nevves out of the newe founde worlde : wherein is declared the rare and singuler vertues of diuerse and sundrie hearbes, trees, oyles, plantes, and stones, with their aplications, as well for phisicke as chirurgerie :
1 item
A system of vegetables
1 item
Tenting on the plains
1 item
Illustrations of Master Humphrey's clock
1 item
Twenty-four original character studies illustrating American notes
1 item
The Lorillard story
1 item
The story of Dolly Dowsie and the live rocking horse
1 item
A Relation of a Journey Begun an Dom 1610: Foure Bookes Coutaining a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italt, and Islands Adjoyning
1 item
A counterblaste to tobacco
1 item
Bust of Voltaire
1 item
De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum, alii petum, aut nicotianam vocant, brevis commentariolus :
1 item
Dos fechas: holograph
1 item