Quarto. [4], 68pp. With a lithographed title page and dedication leaf, and two further leaves, a mounted lithographed plate after De Bry's Historia Brasiliana (1590) on India paper, and a mounted explication of the plate, also on India paper. Handsomely bound by Neil of Glasgow in contemporary dark green morocco, tolled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Decorated endpapers, title page and dedication leaf, else internally clean and crisp.

The sole edition of a paper on the history of the cultivation and medicinal use of tobacco delivered by Henry Wilson Cleland (d. 1844), a lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the Glasgow School of Medicine, submitted as a part of his candidature for admission to the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons.