Maggs offer major collection of opium-related objects
Many of us are addicted to books, so perhaps the premises of a leading rare book dealer, Maggs Bros in London’s Berkeley Square, is an ideal setting for ‘Opium: Santo Domingo Collection’, which brings together some 3000 objects, books, photographs and documents on the history of opium, its use and trade.
Opium had been used for medicinal purposes in China for centuries before the practice of mixing it w…