Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
YOUNG, GEORGE. A Treatise on Opium, founded upon Practical Observations. xv, [1], 182, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, later sheep, heavily worn, covers detached; light marginal foxing and soiling at beginning and end. Late 18th-/early 19th-century signature and booklabel of P. Macaulay, M.D. London: A. Millar, 1753

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first edition of a work on the use of opium in treating a wide variety of complaints, including psychiatric disorders. Hunter & Macalpine, pages 395-98; Waring, page 587.