Cachimbos - Marcas, Fabricantes e Artes?úos - edition reliée, livre de poche

Original Portuguese Edition of the already classic book about smoking pipes by José Manuel Lopes. The fly leaf calls this book -- Um Livro de culto, para um objecto de culto -- A cult book about a cult object. In almost 1,800 entries, Cachimbos offers the reader a compendium of the pipe makers, artisans, brands, and their connections. The book is illustrated with detailed and beautiful photographs making it a work of art as much as an encyclopedia of pipes. Sr. Lopes is a Portuguese journalist, who has been a pipe collector and pipe smoker since he was 16 years old. He is a regular contributor, in various media, to pipe related discussions. Sr. Lopes frequently participates in international meetings of pipe smokers.