16mo (148 x 84 mm). Half-title. (Some very minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt-ruled and with mor lettering piece (minor worming near head of spine, else very good). Provenance: Jonathan Sax (contemporary  inscription on title, “Ex Libris Johannis Saxonis”).
 
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, and an early American medical imprint. Cullen was an eminent Scottish physician; professor of medicine and chemistry at Glasgow and Edinburgh and first published this work in Latin in Edinburgh the same year. The work was first translated into English for the present American edition. This copy the issue with a six-line imprint. ESTC notes two issues of imprint, one in  6 lines long, with last line beginning “Boston”; the other in 5 lines, with last line beginning "and by him…”
  

Evans 24237; Austin 581; Norman 540; ESTC W22405.