A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors; with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits.
Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company and William Carson; Printed by William Warren, 1838. Octavo (22 x14 cm.), xii, 745, [3 blank], pages. [A] , B-3A , 3B-3C . Frontispiece, engravings in the text and charts, drawn by E L Percy and engraved by Caroline Clayton. Bibliographic references; Index. Second Edition, enlarged; (first published 1824). Gabler notes "The first edition... was the first publication on this subject in English. The second.....