8vo. [8], 28pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's marbled paper wrappers, A.E.G. Extremities a trifle marked, loss and chipping to spine. Lightly spotted. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto fo FFEP; 'Societati Regiae / Philosophorum / Quae Edinburgi convenire solet / Hoc perexiguum / Observantiae / Animique propter fuctum ex corum scriptis / praeceptum gratissimi / Testimonium / Offert / Auctor.'

A doctoral dissertation on physiological phenomena, this copy presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh by the author John Lee (1779-1859), a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. Lee would be elected principal of the university in 1841.