8vo (230 x 143 mm). Engraved plate. (Some damp-staining or soiling). Original boards uncut (several separations to hinges, losses to spines, some overall wear and chipping); cloth folding case. Provenance: Dr. Morris Parker Collection, Michael Reese Hospital (bookplates and a few library markings). 

FIRST EDITION.  Hosack, one of the founders of the New York Historical Society, an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, remains widely remembered as the doctor who treated Alexander Hamilton's fatal injuries after his duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.