Buy this book on-line Safford, William E : Narcotic Plants And Stimulants Of The Ancient AmericansGPO, Washington, 1917
8vo. 38pp article, plus 17 full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1916. The author was Economic Botanist at the U. S. Department of Agriculture. From the opening paragraph, "The use of narcotic plants and stimulants was widely spread in both North and South America long before the discovery, not only for the purposes of exhilaration or intoxication, but also in connection with the practice of necromancy and in religious rituals and ceremonies accompanying the initiation of boys into the status of manhood." Includes tobacco, cohoba, the red bean, peyotl, ololinhqui, jimson weed, huaca-cachu (a tree Datura), coca, aya-huasca, yerba-mate, cassine, guarana, and cacao. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Very scarce.. Book. Book Condition: VG. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Safford, William E : Narcotic Plants And Stimulants Of The Ancient Americans. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, rare books, libri antichi, livres rares and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |